church ambush in S.C. on-air ambush in V.A. gas station ambush in T.X. species: noun; a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, ex. Homo sapiens a.k.a. Humans (first Google.com result)  Confession: Sometimes the news makes me feel as if human beings will never embrace the fact that we're one race, sharing one planet with one sky and one ocean (called by many names according to the nearest land masses). Bogus Assumption Treated as Fact: The last one standing in a race war has reason to celebrate the annihilation of all others.  

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/sandra-bland-arrest-death-main/ Confession: Hearing the police officer's tone of voice when he commands Sandra Bland to " Get out of the car! " like she's a disobedient beast makes me sick to my stomach for many reasons. First, because it triggers visceral memories of my every encounter with a male authority figure who became enraged at not receiving immediate, unquestioning obeisance. Fortunately for me, none of my experiences were with legitimate law enforcement officers. Mine have been more similar in tone and attitude to Trayvon Martin's encounter with his killer where some self-appointed gatekeeper who passes judgment based purely on skin color and narrow-minded beliefs about what black people are and where our place is. Or like Jordan Davis's with his killer, who used a gun to punish a car full of young black men for having the audacity to defy him. (I'm not anti-gun; I'm anti-lunatics-with-guns whether the...

amazing real raw true     Observation: When fiction phenom Katy Evans uses these words in her aggressively visceral writing style, they read as distinctive identifiers with layers of impact. When other authors' prose are peppered with these words they lose their emotional punch.     Bogus Assumption Treated As Fact: If one bestselling author's writing style and vocabulary compels readers, that means readers want every author's style and words to reflect the exact same style and words. 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE What!)     Observation: Some racists spend more time and energy smack talking (and chanting) rather than performing and achieving at superior levels.   

The original artwork for the Dodging Eros, Through Past, Present and Pleasure  by Cardyn Brooks cover image boldly ventures into an uncertain future.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm http://www.gotnewswire.com/news/chevy-chase-home-vandalized-with-nword-on-mlk-day Observation: For as far as we've come, we still have quite a way to go.

I have no disagreement with President Obama as a human being. In fact, I'll go so far to say one of the things I respect very much is the role model that he has served as a husband and a father. And I think he has been an exemplary husband to his wife and an extraordinary father to to his daughters. Frankly, America needs a good role model like that. -Mike Huckabee during a speech at the National Press Club February 2011 Observation: Sanctimonious hypocrisy sells more books.