Are We Becoming Bosnia?

A Personal Reflection By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com Note: My 50th year was marked by many countries breaking apart along ethnic lines, many violently. One of the worse was Bosnia which was a part of Yugoslavia. Bosnia was divided into three tribes: the...

Why is the print media capitalizing “b”?

By Dr. Harold Black My musings typically generate comments. In twelve years the most negative comments I received were over the letter “b”. A copy editor had capitalized all the “bs” in black – where it designated race – and not the “w” for white. I was asked why I...

Seditious

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com I admit that for most of my life I could be labelled as seditious. (Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward rebellion against the established order). I was the University of Georgia’s...

Cancel Democrats

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com I have long bemoaned the intellectual laziness of our citizens. I could never understand why Black college students would wear Kinte cloth at their graduation exercises when Kinte cloth was worn by Black slavers in Africa...

Joe Biden is the Pinocchio of our Time

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com President Biden is preaching unity out of one side of his mouth while out of the other side he and his party are driving wedges between the democrats and the Americans who did not vote for him. If Biden were Pinocchio, his...