Detroit Politics

I have major reservations about the nature and quality of the outcome of elections in this region and in Detroit. Voter turnout was disappointing even in suburban elections. In the city we now have an all Black city council. This lack of diversity cannot be viewed as progressive.

A financially challenged gay candidate who has never confronted homophobia in many Black religious venues was elected this disappoints on so many levels. The passage of an educational funding proposal which continues to dump money into a failed school district is not a progressive development it echoes a theme of desperation and a misguided belief that educational outcomes are about money and not fundamentally driven educational agendas.

Fact is over 85% of the electorate in the city did not elect or approved of these new public officials. Educational progress is never the result of spending money. When the last vote was cast has our region really improved?

Collective Expressionist Artists

I do not use my paint brush to promote the myth of Black pathological depravity when a event or incident occurs in a Black venue..I distance myself when the usual suspects promote the myth that Black Communities are havens for criminal behavior and incubators of violence..

I paint the canvass with themes of elevation, bliss, accord and values.... Come paint with me....

Blank Canvass- Writer's Block again strikes at my door

Educational Stormtroopers

I am stunned by the backward reaction of school officials who surrendered to the cries of ignorance of many parents by not broadcasting our president's educational speech. It is shameful that educated people allowed themselves to be bullied by the intellectual cowardice of some parents who now view our president as an enemy of the state. Soon there will be charges of treason and sedition targeted at the white house one wonders if our educated elites will lend themselves to those noises and unworthy chants of the ignorant. Time will tell...

Communal Astronaut

Exploring the habiats of one's personal orbit can be as stimulating as sci-fi novel of time travel space exploration.

..Memory...Memory..Memory

Some fellow life travelers pass back into my mind today.....It was nice thinking about my father, my friends who have died and left this world..

Nice on a certain level....

For Them..

"Closed my eyes today and the world was wide open..

Moments became vivid I wanted to stay...

"Closed my eyes today and the world was wide open..

Nice seeing you again...Really is...

"Closed my eyes today and the world was wide open...

Post Racial Anger....America's True Colors

America is such a fickle nation one moment we are obsessing over Obama and the notion of a post racial society and then in the same breath we call a Black PHD a nigger..

The anger over health care reform has now reached nasty levels I fear the specter of an Obama backlash.....