Help Wanted…But the Obese Need Not Apply

This morning I was watching one of the morning shows and heard one of the guests say that the Cleveland Clinic would not hire you if you were a smoker. Smoking is deadly and there are several health risks associated with smoking. If you are already employed by them they will send you to smoking [...]

Joan Kennedy, the Mother of Senator Kennedy’s Children Deserved A Salute

Over the past few days I have watched countless specials and the funeral for Senator Ted Kennedy. So many people referred to his wife Vicki as the love of his life. They said that he saved her. It was a fine tribute to his current wife, but I could not help but feel sorry for [...]

Ted Kennedy’s Service Was a Celebration of Life, Not a Political Rally

 There is a gospel song called May My Work Speak for Me. We each are writing our own eulogy everyday of our lives. We are given a short period here on earth and we determine how we will use that time. On funeral programs we see two dates. The day we were born and the [...]

Bishop Thomas Weeks To Wed Another Prophetess

This morning I was visiting on of my favorite websites www.theoldblackchurch.blogspot.com. I saw a story about Bishop Weeks and his upcoming nuptials. Weeks made news a couple of years ago when he got into a scuffle with his then wife Juanita Bynum or as she was called Prophetess Juanita Bynum. He initially denied he hit [...]

Four Years After Katrina and Residents Still have No Place to Call Home

 I vividly remember watching the citizens of New Orleans gathered at the Superdome begging for food and water. We saw countless scenes of people stranded on the rooftops of their homes. This just did not seem like something that could happen in our country, but it did. One particularly charming black boy that NBC brought [...]

The Myth of Camelot Will Be Buried with Ted Kennedy

Today on Hardball Chris Matthews started speculating on what Kennedy of this generation would be next to enter the political arena. Matthews like many of his generation has waxed poetic about the days of Camelot. How the three handsome Kennedy brothers led the charmed lives of the politically connected. They all had beautiful wives and [...]

A Salute to the “In Spite of Generation” as They Celebrate Their 65th High School Reunion

Last July I visited some of my family in Memphis, Tennessee. My aunt who is in her eighties told me this fall she would be attending her high school reunion. She proudly said it was their 65th high school reunion. Her class was the Booker T. Washington High School class of 1944. Some in her [...]

Ted Kennedy’s Death is Sad, but it is Not Tragic

 Yesterday we learned of the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. He battled brain cancer valiantly, but in the end he died from the disease. It is very sad when anyone loses a love one. Kennedy was loved by his family and also by the broader American family, but I was struck by the fact that [...]

GOP Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins Yearns for “Great White Hope”

“U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins offered encouragement to conservatives at a town hall forum that the Republican Party would embrace a “great white hope” capable of thwarting the political agenda endorsed by Democrats who control Congress and President Barack Obama. Jenkins, a Topeka Republican in her first term in Congress, shared thoughts about the GOP’s political [...]

President Obama Owes Ted Kennedy a Debt of Gratitude

Last year when President Obama was running for president Senator Ted Kennedy came out early, and strong for the then Senator from Illinois. I remember watching him give his support and I like so many others knew this was big.  He angered Senator Clinton because she felt that he would have endorsed her, but he [...]