Ferguson, Missouri is on fire. Once again, a city is in chaos because of an “injustice” inflicted upon a black person at the hands of a (racist) white person. In this case, that white person happens to be- as of…
Derryck GreenAugust 14, 2014
Poor jobs numbers from July continue to reflect a slow-moving economy. The first quarter’s economic contraction has been revised a final time. A previous revision showed that the economy contracted 2.9%. The latest revision, released this week by the…
Derryck GreenAugust 1, 2014
Once again, it’s as if the NAACP sees itself as not having done enough to dishonor its legacy and completely ruin its reputation as a civil rights organization. In its fledgling grasps at political relevancy, the so-called civil rights organization-…
Derryck GreenJuly 22, 2014
Frederick Douglass on 5 July 1852 Occasion: Meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, Rochester Hall, Rochester, N.Y. To illustrate the full shame of slavery, Douglass delivered a speech that took aim at the pieties of the nation --…
Derryck GreenJuly 4, 2014
This past weekend, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi opined about the growing crisis of unaccompanied, illegal immigrant children overwhelming our border. In a purely cynical appeal to religious sensibilities, Pelosi said the inundation of illegal immigrants into our country isn't…
Derryck GreenJune 30, 2014
This past week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (specifically, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board) rescinded the trademark registration and protection of the Washington Redskins because it decided the name 'Redskins' was, or is, “disparaging to Native Americans.” Clearly,…
Derryck GreenJune 23, 2014
The bad news from the Veterans Affairs scandal, the tepid commencement speech at West Point- which was coldly received, and the extremely questionable decision to trade five high-level terrorists from Gitmo for “missing” soldier Bowe Bergdahl, in addition to several…
Derryck GreenJune 6, 2014
The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education in May of 1954, in my opinion, should be celebrated as a high point in American history. Deciding that state-sponsored segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth…
Derryck GreenMay 17, 2014