Mitch's Blog

This won’t be a popular statement to the majority of people in the United States, but it’s not supposed to be. Folks, it’s always about race; plain and simple. Now, why am I making such a statement? What’s prompting this particular post and how does it pertain to what’s going on in this country? If [...]

My wife had an incident at Macy’s at Carousel Center Mall this past week. She went in to pay a bill. The woman at the counter was taking care of this older couple before her, so she waited. She stated that this woman was really friendly to the couple, talking and smiling and laughing with [...]

This past week I heard that there were plans for allowing a mosque to be built near the place where the Twin Towers came down. I immediately didn’t like it one bit. I don’t know that there’s many people who believe in diversity more than I do. I’ve written about it often here and in [...]

I was at a meeting yesterday when the subject of the Arizona Immigration law came up. I don’t think I’ve hidden my views on this subject from anyone, and as someone who talks about diversity, it would make sense that I would take a position against it. Of course, I knew better as soon as [...]

I don’t often get into politics on this blog, but I feel I have to say something in this case because it’s a major diversity issue. Last Friday, the state of Arizona passed a law basically legalizing racial profiling in their state against Latino people. The actual law says that the police can pull over [...]

Of all things, I found something that finally made me agree with a position of Republican National Chairman. Michael Steele came out with this statement when talking about being black on Good Morning America: “Barack Obama has a slimmer margin. We all, a lot of folks do. I mean, it’s a different role for, you [...]

Last year when I wrote about the 41st Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, I highlighted some of the things that had happened in the first few months of President Obama’s administration that related to race, and I was none too happy about any of it. I didn’t think Dr. King [...]

It’s another year for Black History Month to try to get people who could care less to understand just what it used to mean to be black in America. I say it that way because based on a lot of what I see, most people care as much about that as they do about what [...]

Today is the holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. I haven’t addressed it every year, though last year was something special because it was the day before Barack Obama was sworn in as president. It’s been a strange year, and I’ve sometimes wondered what Dr. King would have thought about the year in general. I [...]

What’s going on in America these days? A few days ago, a book excerpt came out which reported that the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, commented during the 2008 presidential campaign when Barack Obama was still trying to become the Democratic candidate for president, stated that Obama could easily be a good candidate [...]