Thankfully, it was shut down. But the fact that it was once an active fundraiser scares me. (newsobserver.com) Selling candy didn’t raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro middle school tried selling grades. However, the fundraiser came to an abrupt halt today after a story in the News & Observer raised concerns about the the [...]

Recently I have been toying around with the idea of downloading the Loopt application on my phone. For those of you out there who never heard of loopt, it’s a program designed for cell phone users that provides the physical location of your circle of friends (who also need to register for the service). A [...]

When folks faked blowing a mental gasket over Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to own a piece of a NFL team, the biggest reason thrown out there was because of “racist” comments he made in the past. Based on that, critics were also saying such a move would especially be hurtful to Black players and Black fans. If [...]

Great! More deep, gritty, poetic street descriptors to remind us just how bad America is today. “America has turned into a crack house. A place to distribute product, we don’t manufacture nothing so we got to get back to that. Even the clothes we’re wearing is being shipped back on a slow boat from [...]

Well, blackinformant.com had its biggest day in traffic evah. My post “Are You Smarter Than A 1954 8th Grader?” was first picked up by Purple Avenger over at Ace’s house. Few other sites picked it up after that until finially I checked my stats last evening and see that I was just over 80,000 hits. [...]

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Only things missing from this video~ ~Stack of magazines. ~Game on the television ~Music on blast ~Little man in seat #3 crying his eyes out while daddy tells him to “dry it up”. ~The smell of either something fried or something barbecued in the air. ~Someone talking about how the local high school football team back in ‘78 was better than [...]

Okay, now I was borderline but overall okay with Tyler Perry’s “Madea”. But this mess really is going way too far. (variety.com) Screen Gems has acquired “Sheneneh and Wanda,” a vehicle for Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence to star in a comic caper playing female characters they developed during their stand-up comedy days. Foxx will write [...]

BlackNews.com) – A respected national conference on father and family issues is coming to Los Angeles and Southern California for the first time. Parents, families, social service professionals, community representatives and leaders from all over the country are expected to attend the 11th Annual National Fatherhood and Families Conference at the Westin LAX Hotel in [...]

It never fails… Klan idiots pump themselves up to march in an area where they know they are not liked or accepted. What happens? Instead of just ignoring them, folks show up in huge numbers to give them more attention. “Roughly 15 NSM members gathered at 10 a.m. behind a police barricade. Several NSM “storm troopers” [...]

Anytime a major piece of legislation is being pushed, there always has to be a racial component added to it in order to sweeten the sale to Americans. This health care bill was no exception. Recently, the NAACP, National Urban League, and other Civil Rights groups got together it what was being called a “Civil [...]

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Yes. It passed in the House last night. Sen. Tom Harkin has a bright new idea that has never been thought of in the history of mankind. “U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin thinks the country should have a debate on whether the Medicare program providing health care to U.S. seniors ought to be expanded to cover [...]

I knew it would not take long for folks to rush to the role of school marm and tell fellow Americans to “shush” any and all criticism about Muslims for the terrible shooting that took place at Ft. Hood. That alone is sickening to me. The AP beats the drum. (AP) U.S. mosques fearful [...]

I am both saddened and angry over the shooting that took place at Fort Hood yesterday. While 13 soldiers lost their lives and many others were wounded, if Guantanamo is a guide on how we handle terrorist he will get the royal treatment in prison. “How is that prayer mat working for ya? We can get [...]

Things have been a little busy these past few weeks for me which is why I have not posted my Blackinformant.com Xtra podcast in the last couple of weeks. Once things settle down, I will resume. In the meantime, here are a couple quick hits. Gays Blame Obama Gay leaders blame ads, Obama for loss in Maine [...]

About the author of this following excerpt~ “Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.” (more…) Revolution [...]

Of course we did. But not in the numbers Democrats hoped for. Apparently, that party’s worst fears were confirmed last night as there is very little mention of any polling data on Black voters. This is a stark difference from our last general elections. For me, this is very disturbing because what it shows is that there [...]

Need a way to measure just how far our public school system has fallen? The status quo cannot be the end of our children!

Robinson summarizes his speech here. Secondly, if you have not heard of Charlotte Iserbyt, get to know her. I have her book “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” and it has greatly opened my eyes to the ultimate goals of our educational system. Here is a 10 min video I managed to find of her on [...]