When a bomb was found concealed in a backpack along the route of a parade on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the public was divided. Many felt, and complained that mainstream media played down the attempted bombing because race was a factor. This complaint was echoed when Kevin William Harpham, an alleged Neo-Nazi was finally arrested just …
Next week my regular, twice monthly column will go to print in Seattle’s Real Change Newspaper. What I wrote is going to anger some people. Okay, probably a lot of people. You can read the article below, but first I want to share something with you. Writing about the State Auditor’s report on questionable spending …
Question: why can’t some Black people stand to be accountable for the contemptible, asinine things some Black people do? Let’s be real. We’ve all watched over the past week as the Urban League leadership and other prominent Black people in Seattle have been implicated in a fraud investigation that has dominated the news cycle ever since it …
It’s pretty bad. The Urban League’s problems run deeper than the questionable contracts it had with the Seattle School District. Most revealing about the State Auditor’s report: the Urban League is not doing well financially. When interviewed for the SAO report, interim Executive Director Tony Benjamin said (more than once) the League needed the school …
UPDATE July 22, 2010: After doing a bit more digging, and a rogue op. or 2, I’ve come up with some details on the “new technology” Safeway is using in the Renton store I was stopped at on Sunday. The system in question is called “Gatekeepers Systems”- and some of us may even be familiar …