The Morning After Pill…

For pundits such as the outspoken FOX news favorite Dick Morris,  the reelection of President Barack Obama was a hard pill to swallow.  Hopes and dreams of a different tomorrow were prematurely aborted and a gaping void remained in the wombs of  self-proclaimed conservative Americans.  Ironically, I felt that void 4 years earlier when President … Continue reading The Morning After Pill…

To Be Black, Gifted and Not A Democrat

The morning of November 5, 2008 was bittersweet. I awoke to news that the first African American had been elected president, yet I had not voted for him. I am  young, gifted and a Republican, an anomaly for a black woman who grew up in the inner cities of Brooklyn,New York. I wept as I … Continue reading To Be Black, Gifted and Not A Democrat