Skeptical Brotha

There is something to be said for good marketing. It can turn a corporate lawyer for a Republican congressional redistricting lawsuit, a defense attorney for a crooked Chicago cop, and a law enfo...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2019/05/17/the-case-against-lori-lightfoot/

Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney is the daughter of the most reviled but most effective Washington power broker since LBJ, former Vice President Dick Cheney. She rapidly ascended into the House R...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/the-daughter-also-rises-liz-cheney-crown-princess-of-plutocracy-and-duchess-of-endless-war/

Councilwoman Keisha Lance Bottoms is the current face of Atlanta’s decaying 44 year-old regime of corporate sponsored Black leadership. Endorsed by current Mayor Kasim Reed, the personification...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/the-case-against-keisha-lance-bottoms/

Horace Julian Bond, Civil Rights Icon, Politician, Writer, and University Lecturer, succumbed to a brief illness on Saturday night at the age of 75. A founder of the legendary Student Non-Violent...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/julian-bond-1940-2015/

  Tuesday saw the election of NC State Representative Alma Adams (D-Guilford), as the next congresswoman from North Carolina’s 12th congressional district. 182 of 182 precincts – 100 percent...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/alma-adams-newest-member-of-the-congressional-black-caucus/

HAT TIP: Los Angeles Times By Angel Jennings May 1, 2014, 7:13 p.m. Los Angeles NAACP President Leon Jenkins has resigned amid scrutiny surrounding the organization’s decision to give awards...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/leon-jenkins-resigns-in-disgrace/

By now you’ve heard of the toxic swirl of racism surrounding Billionaire Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA franchise. What you may not have heard about is the complicity of...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/donald-sterlings-house-negro-leon-jenkins/

Betting against Barack Obama is always a losing proposition, but he’s in a race against history that no Democratic president has won in 74 years.  Only twice in American history has there ever...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/hillary-isnt-a-sure-thing/

Mitt Romney is the living embodiment of a President from Hollywood central casting.  His all-American good looks and patrician bearing are reassuring to some folk and harkens back to the halcyon...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/yall-need-to-chill-seriously/

I’ve got a confession to make: I’ve got a bug up my ass about Chris Christie.  He scares me in a way that no Republican does.  It occurs to me that as Mitt Romney sinks into the quicksand o...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/chris-christie-an-imminent-threat-in-2016/

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has abandoned all pretense of giving a shit about assisting Mitt Romney in toppling Barack Obama this year and has started running in earnest for 2016. This wee...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/chris-christie-pays-homage-to-iowas-birther-king/

Dear Mr. Leroy, I thought of you today. It was the Mad Men that did it. Watching the pornographic misogyny of that celluloid homage to white masculinity made me think of your black ass. I looked ...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/dear-mr-leroy/

Ohio Results Mitt Romney 451972 38.00% Rick Santorum 439932 37.00% Newt Gingrich 173797 14.60% Ron Paul 110289 9.30% Rick Perry 7367 0.60% Jon Huntsman 6350 0.50% Oklahoma Results Rick Santorum 8...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/super-tuesday-santorum-wins-oklahoma-north-dakota-tennessee-and-fights-romney-to-a-draw-in-ohio/

HAT TIP: By David Giambusso/The Star-Ledger U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, the elder statesman of New Jersey’s congressional delegation, died after a months-long battle with colon cancer today, acco...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/congressman-donald-m-payne-1934-2012/

HAT TIP:  PHILLY.COM Wed, Feb. 29, 2012, 11:52 AM By Martha Woodall, Mark Fazlollah, Kristen A. Graham, and Joseph Tanfani INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS Federal authorities are investigating why a com...

https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/congressman-chaka-fattahs-son-subject-of-fbi-raid/