0 "... Our Flag Was Still There..."

By: Marvin DeBose Picture: Twitter @FergusonAction  Activist Bree Newsome takes down the Confederate Flag from outside of the Statehouse in Columbia, Sc. So when are people going to decide to stop lying to defend the Confederate flag? Over the past week, amidst the controversy surrounding that flag, what I've realized is that there are mainly three types of people who defend the Confederate flag: 1. The person who doesn't know history... I know many of these people who have either grown up seeing this flag at grandma's house, or they simply think its just cute flag that represents country/rural...

0 What Charleston Means

Photograph by Lissa D'Aquisto, courtesy of City of Charleston (The Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC) By now, many of us have heard of the horrendous acts which occurred in Charleston, SC in which a gunman opened fire in the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, killing 9 people. Media outlets and pundits have already described this incident as “incomprehensible” and “unbelievable”. I would’ve agreed with them… that’s if I hadn’t already known what country I was living in. One survivor of the incident recalled the gunman, a white male saying to the members of the congregation, “You rape our women and you’re taking...

0 Seinfeld & The Culture of Political Correctness

PHoto CREDIT: ROBIN MARCHANT/GETTY By: Marvin DeBose “So what's the deal with all this political correctness?” That's a question that actor/comedian Jerry Seinfeld may have been asking after a recent interview in which he discussed the difficulty of performing as a comedian on college campuses due to what he believes to be a culture of political correctness. In an interview with ESPN radio, Seinfeld stated, "I don't play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, 'Don't go near colleges. They're so [politically correct].'... They just want to use these words: 'That’s racist'; 'That’s sexist'; 'That’s prejudice.' They don’t know what...

0 McKinney, USA

By: Marvin DeBose It looked like a scene out of the 90s TV show Walker Texas Ranger; a cop running toward the camera at full speed. But it wasn't a TV show it was a viral video showing a police officer in a suburban community responding to a reported disturbance in the area. Within the first few seconds of the video, Corporal Eric Caseboldt, a 40-year-old Navy veteran, who had been with McKinney police for 10 years, is seen on the video running at top speed  down chasing an unseen perpetrator. At first glance, it almost seems as if he might be chasing a suspect who is armed.  Then the camera pans right, and the officer returns...