Beware Black Friday - You Can Go Out Battling With The Crazies If You Want To...Professor Tracey's Eating Leftovers and Going To See Precious

The truth is Black Friday should be changed to a solemn day of all broke-asses staying at home making homemade gifts for Christmas. Some kind of creative shit with popsicle sticks, white glue, crayons, and glitter.

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Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll!

Everyone have a blessed and absolutely awesome turkey day or whatever the hell you chose to eat today. If you have a job, a home, and a family, you are truly blessed! I know I am!

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The HBCU Blues - Once Again Black Folks Are Working Too Hard On The Wrong Stuff

I'm starting to come to a sad realization about my people. We all too often get fired up about the wrong shit. We get all passionate about little things while the big issues go ignored until they become big enough to crush us. For example, why in the hell are HBCU's issuing dress codes and fitness codes? Are these really pressing issues that deserve priority focus?

Considering all the problems that HBCUs are currently fighting; falling enrollments, soaring costs for everything from building maintenance to tuition, campus safety issues, underpaid and overworked professors, academically ill-prepared students and shrinking endowments, I think that creating drama over student clothing choices and denying students their degree because some chart says they are too fat are really low on the list of important issues.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for folks pulling up their pants and folks being in better physical condition, but the first job of any collegiate institution is to EDUCATE it's students, not regulate them on personal life decisions such as dress and weight. HBCUs need to be more worried about raising money, finding the best professors, and get the best resources for their students, not creating roadblocks that makes it harder for their predominantly high risk student body.

Whose buying all this "business dress" clothing? My minority students and quite a few white students as well, struggle to buy BOOKS, forget clothes. And is Lincoln University going to provide personal trainers, dietitians, 24-hour workout facilities, and nutritionists to help their students make the required weight for graduation? Are they going to remove junk food and fatty foods from the cafeteria, bookstore, and dorms, to prevent their students from gaining the infamous freshman fifteen, twenty-five, or fifty pounds? Do they have the money and time to deal with the lawsuits from students that sue?

I've seen dressed up students at HBCUS before, many dressed to the department store hilt with brand new backpacks that are empty because "new school clothes" were more important than books and school supplies. College students struggle with time management just with classes, jobs, and extracurricular activities, now to ensure graduation a regular physical workout is added to the schedule. Could you see that? Girl, I can't study for that math test tomorrow, I got t0 spend an hour on the treadmill. How about mandatory study tables and hours instead, now that would be an idea.

And if I was a student at any of these colleges, EVERY single faculty member, staffer, and administrator would have to be dressed for success and lean and mean before they could point a finger at me.

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No Storybook Ending For Future Hall of Famer Allen Iverson's NBA Career

He was my favorite player for a very long time. I loved the way this boy played. Scrappy and tough. I was proud when he was MVP. I am disappointed that he never managed to become a true champion, a leader on and off the court. It really is too bad that his brilliant career ends in such negative fashion. I do worry about this cat in retirement, what in the hell does he do now?

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Will White Folks Ever Understand That Appearing In Blackface Is Not Only Racist But Makes The Wearer Look Damn Stupid?

Can't even believe this dude had the nerve to pose next to the great Bob Marley looking like a radioactive black jelly bean and the idiot above doesn't look black, but burned. I will never understand why making fun of black folks is a source of entertainment on a campus that has so few black folks on campus in the first damn place.

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Professor Tracey Highly Recommends The Awesome Drama - "Intelligence"

If you have the extra cash to purchase the DVDS or a Netflix account, I highly recommend the Canadian television series, Intelligence. It only lasted two season before some idiot in the Canadian TV networks decided to cancel another well-acted, well-written, and well-directed crime drama.

I am a huge fan of both Ian Tracey and Klea Scott and you will be to after watching them in this series. And what is mad cool about Canadian television is that black folks are regularly included in their shows without all the racist baloney that clouds up American television.

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Suspected Serial Killer Anthony Sowell Proves That The Police Don't Give A Damn About Black Women As Crime Victims

This nutjob picked the right victims. You can clearly beat, strangle, rape, murder, and descrate the corpses of black women for years despite the fact that you are a well-known convicted rapist, naked bodies are reported to be falling from the windows of your home and your crib stinks up the entire neighborhood because it smells like an abandoned slaughter house.

Somebody in the Cleveland Police Department needs to get fired with major quickness. And whoever in the hell is the local elected officials in that area where this black-ass Jack the Ripper has been living, needs to have their ass booted out of office.

Damn!

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