A Requiem for Summers of the Past: When We Were Kids

Whatever happened to the long days of a care-free Summer? When I (J) was a kid, my brother and I would ride our bikes (no helmets) from 9am to 9pm, often ending up 20 miles from home, on the other side of Los Angeles. If we fell and got a scrape, we washed it off [...]

Who Writes For King Magazine?

I picked up an issue of King Magazine over the weekend (as Airplane reading you understand.) I flipped to the contributors section where they had pictures of the writers. They were all white or Hispanic. Undoubtedly, the magazine is geared toward African-American men (or me who really really like seeing African-American women). [...]

New Rule: Diamonds are for Women ONLY!

I (J) went to a party the other day and it seemed ever single black man there had two big diamond studs in his ear. This phenomenon of black men worshipping “ice” is about 10 years old. It’s time to move on. In case these brothers haven’t heard the song: diamonds are [...]