Racism In America Continues……. Before addressing the issue, let me lay out some key terms- inequality, racial profiling, white racism, Asian racism, racism today, racists, racial inequality racism in America today, American racism, individual racism, and prejudices. Each term will be addressed in this hub and you will learn the direct cause for each. You […]
Why Successful Black Men Gravitate Towards Light-Skinned Black Women Despite the immense advances made by Blacks in academic and socioeconomic spheres, there seems to be a preponderance of successful Black men either dating, cohabiting with, or marrying light-skinned Black women. Why is this? Aren’t there any highly successful and upwardly mobile darker-skinned Black women? Of […]
This is the third time this week that we will have to fill up the gas tank and it won’t be the last time in the days that follow. That’s pretty annoying considering the miles per gallon that we now get and the cost of the gas it takes to fill up the tank just […]
Women Changing the World There are of course countless women who changed the world. This article gives my personal top ten – these ten women are not only amazing human beings, but they have made a real change in the world for the better. In the field of politics, science, art and media, these ten […]
The Tibet-China Conflict This is part four of a series of articles giving an overview on the Tibet-China conflict. “Is Tibet part of China?” is a sensitive question. Here are links to Part 1: Overview and History , Part 2: Why China wants Tibet , and Part 3: Current Policies and the Dalai Lama. This […]
I was struck by a graphic that was posted on Facebook the other day, which was clearly a response to the well-intentioned people who point out spelling errors in the posts of others on social media outlets. The derisive term “Grammar Nazi” is now flung about with impunity (never mind that they confuse grammar with […]
Is the Illuminati going to take over the world? We watch videos about them on Youtube, we hear about them in movies and read about them in literature. The Illuminati is theorized to be a real secret society, geared towards the goal of establishing a new world order despite the cost of lives and destruction. […]
After Newtown, Connecticut In the wake of the Sandy hook Elementary tragedy there has been tremendous debate in the US about increasing gun controls. It took only hours to find hundreds or thousands of forum conversations, calls from our politicians for more gun control and a general demand that something, anything, be done to prevent […]
A series of hubs chronicling a serial killer from each of the fifty states. David Meirhofer March 19, 1967 was cold. Goddamn it ’s cold, he thought. Between the temperature holding at a stubborn 30 degrees and the broken heater in his car, the 18 year old was pissed. Another crap day in this tinshit […]
Small talk certainly isn ’t something the average person especially prizes or looks forward to in everyday life. When we think of small talk, we might think of being bored by someone we don ’t really want to speak with, or by subjects that don ’t ‘matter. ’ Yet small talk actually serves important purposes […]
Do women belong in law enforcement? To rephrase the question . . . can women do the job at the same level as their male counterparts? A few days ago, I was reading through the questions users asked at HubPages and this question (although worded a bit differently) was one that was getting many responses. […]
On the web, where content is king, the types of expression that a person engages in can put them on the radar of the scores of behavioral health experts and paid agents who have taken to the internet to identify potentially problematic people under the auspices of law enforcement and violence prevention. Many times the […]