My mother is still alive. And I love her. I also love my wife and daughter to the moon and back. But I don't love Mother's Day. In fact, I think it should end. Women don't deserve such a day of honor. They deserve much, much more.
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From my childhood growing up in a town bordering largely African American communities of East Orange and Newark, NJ to my adult life in Asbury Park, NJ and now Los Angeles, I have had a front row seat to myriad incidents of overt racism.
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For Americans, "Gun" is a proper noun. It's about as close to God as it gets. AR15s, AK47s, UZIs, M1911s, Model 10s, Wingmasters, Glocks... the list of our favorite firearm friends goes on and on like Lindsay Lohan's rehab. Guns sell boatloads of movie tickets, boost CNN's ratings (if that's even possible) and breed the insanity we love to ignore.
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As long as gun victims are in our thoughts and prayers, it's all that matters. America will remain the greatest nation on earth, regardless of its appetite for eating itself alive.
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Michael Brown is dead. And many other young black men with their hands up. This is the one truth upon which we can all agree without prejudice. Beyond this, they are neither civil rights legacies nor guilty of this or that. They are simply dead.
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But as it goes, we continue to empower anyone inside the Beltway and anyone on the top floors of ivory towers and anyone striking gold in reality TV, even though such empowerment leads to more and more induced earthquakes.
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The truth has been something to fight for, something to live for, something to die for. But the problem with the truth is that nobody believes it anymore. This is a world where fact is distraction and fiction is flawless. The truth is boring. The truth is too…truthful. But lies. Lies are sexy and mysterious. Lies illustrate our deepest innovation. Lies make for our most historic moments. Lies are great for business. And above all, lies validate the yawn that is truth.
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During the Tamir Rice protest in downtown Cleveland, on December 29, 2015, police officer Brian Dorin, after using his cop car to "win" a game-of-chicken versus street protesters, rolled down his window and yelled at a 25-year-old black student-activist, "Do you want to be the next one."
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A Cleveland police cruiser lurches forward into a coterie of protesters and stops dangerously close to hitting a number of us who, along with about 150 others, had taken the streets for a second day in a row since the local grand jury decided not to indict the officers who shot and killed 12-year old Tamir Rice.
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