Share The BP oil spill has everyone focussed on the environment again. There’s lot of anger, hopelessness and upset about yet another issue that seems to be leading to global environmental death and destruction. The other day someone asked me what I thought about what’s happening in the world from an environmental perspective (BP oil [...]
Share On April 7, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece in the NY Times about Zimbabwe. “Ordinary people,” he wrote “said time and again that life had been better under the old, racist, white regime of what was then called Rhodesia.” Really Kristof?! It’s funny that Kristof should have that view. Just [...]
Share Have a look at my recent article in The Guardian on why financial literacy is needed instead of just student loan reforms. This paragraph pretty much sums up my view: Without financial literacy, which involves not just the hard facts of money but also the emotional drivers of people’s financial management, we will continue to [...]
Share This is my latest piece for The Guardian: Sarah Palin speaks during the Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Photograph: Josh Anderson/Reuters Sarah Palin may not know that Africa is a continent, but if there is knowledge that she is not lacking, it’s a canny ability to spot, and seize, any opportunity that will propel her [...]
Share Happy Martin Luther King day! I wrote a piece for The Guardian – “King dream meets Obama’s reality” - on Obama’s first year in office and what it means for Martin Luther King’s vision for America. The crux of the piece is that one person cannot singlehandedly change everything, particularly in the space of one [...]
Share On a recent trip back to London, I attended a couple of events that made me feel really pleased. One was the launch event for The TV Collective, a newly launched group aimed at Black and Asian professionals working in the TV and Film industry. The event – a conversation between Pat Younge, formerly [...]
Share I have been accused of being an Obama butt-kisser. Apparently I am not critical enough of him. There have been some people, especially in the black community, who feel that it is their duty to criticize the president at every turn. This, they believe, keeps him ‘accountable’ and helps him to do his job [...]
Share Embedded video from CNN Video As you can see, I thought the speech that Obama gave in Cairo (which is in Africa by the way, not the Middle East) was excellent. President Obama clearly realizes that in order to create something new, in order to transform a situation, you have to [...]
Share According to a new CBS/New York Times poll, perceptions of race relations are at an all time high. They say: For the first time in CBS News polling history, a majority of blacks are casting race relations in the United States in a positive light. It was also found however that: Despite the increasingly [...]
Share Now that RNC Chair Michael Steele has apologized to Rush Limbaugh, in their mini-battle over who is the de-facto leader of the Republican party, does this mean that Republican party members – that is, actual politicians – consider Limbaugh their leader?! From the way it’s going, it looks like it may be Obama v [...]
