Though skillfully orchestrated to transform convenience store robber Michael Brown into a heroic martyr for civil rights, his funeral was hijacked into becoming a platform for the evil and obscene slander of police and America, perpetrated by the usual deplorable suspects: Al Sharpton, Democrats, and the MSM. Candidly, as a black man, it is easy to feel like the odd man out – consistently finding myself taking the opposite side from a majority of black Americans.  In 2008, over 96% of blacks voted for Obama.  I did not. While I am familiar with black Republican author, orator, and advisor to U.S. presidents Booker T. Washington, I only recently came across this amazing quote from him, which nailed the Rev. Sharptons and Rev Jacksons of America back in 1911. There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of...(Read Full Post)