candidobservationTo Lose Gracefully
November 18, 2012 By candidobservation Leave a Comment
It’s a hard thing, to lose. It’s even harder to lose gracefully. It has been a full two weeks since President Barack Obama won a second term to the presidency, and still, we are hearing the wailing of Gov. Mitt Romney. Last week, he said that the president won the election because of “gifts” he […]
To Lose Gracefully
November 18, 2012 By candidobservation Leave a Comment
It’s a hard thing, to lose. It’s even harder to lose gracefully. It has been a full two weeks since President Barack Obama won a second term to the presidency, and still, we are hearing the wailing of Gov. Mitt Romney. Last week, he said that the president won the election because of “gifts” he […]
Is Fancy Marketing Keeping America Overweight?
February 7, 2012 By candidobservation 1 Comment
I often shake my head at the contradictions between what we as Americans hold as dear and what we market. Being overweight in America is frowned upon; obesity is scorned. And yet, we are inundated with images of foods that are not good for us. Nothing looks better than a great big Big Mac, or […]
A Different Dream
January 21, 2013 By candidobservation Leave a Comment
As I have watched the festivities surrounding President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, concurrently being celebrated alongside the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, I find myself courting a different dream…and that is that the president’s presence, power and persistence in spite of tremendous odds, that more and more African-American boys will have someone in […]
Girl Talk: Finding and Filling Our Empty Places
February 24, 2012 By candidobservation 4 Comments
Whitney Houston has been dead a week, and I find myself wondering, still, if she was not like so many of us women: empty of the kind of love we crave. Why is it that so many of us end up with people who are not good for us or to us? We are not […]
A Different Dream
January 21, 2013 By candidobservation Leave a Comment
As I have watched the festivities surrounding President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, concurrently being celebrated alongside the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, I find myself courting a different dream…and that is that the president’s presence, power and persistence in spite of tremendous odds, that more and more African-American boys will have someone in […]
A Sister Warrior Passes On
February 8, 2012 By candidobservation 4 Comments
Patricia Stephens Due has died after battling cancer, but cancer wasn’t the first serious and difficult battle in which she had been involved. Due was one of several students who attended Florida A&M University in 1960, who decided that they were sick and tired of cowering under Jim Crow. A small group of 4 students, […]
Who Cares for the Poor?
February 15, 2013 By candidobservation 2 Comments
It is very hard to understand why any politician would be opposed to paying people a living wage – meaning, a wage that would allow them to live with dignity as opposed to living as virtual slaves to an unfair economic system. It is clear that capitalism and democracy are not one in the […]
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