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The change America needs isn’t going to be easy, cheap or comfortable, and it will not come without controversy.
Boyce Watkins, the keynote speaker at the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Program, urged students, faculty, staff and community members to take action and follow through on King’s ideals and values instead of just talking about them. (More)
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When I first thought about getting a PhD in Business, I found out about the PhD Project. This ground-breaking initiative had the simple goal of creating more black professors to sit in the front of the classroom. It was established by the KPMG Foundation, and from what I understand, might have been in response to a series of complaints about racism that the organization had received in the past. (Read more)
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I watched presidential candidate Herman Cain on The Tonight Show the other day. He’d gotten my attention after Anderson Cooper called to ask what I thought about Cain’s recent comment about African Americans being brainwashed into voting Democratic. I thought that Cain’s remarks were curious for a number of reasons, mainly because they insulted the intelligence of millions of black Democrats. (Read more)
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by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action
Most of you by now know about the case of Kelley Williams-Bolar.You also know that I’ve taken a personal interest in Kelley’s case since we first hit the issue on Black Voices. Kelley, in case you don’t know, was convicted of a felony after sending her children to a school district that was not her own. This case against a single mother seeking a better educational situation for her kids set off a firestorm of international support.
I arrived in Akron yesterday to prepare for the rally on Kelley’s behalf, and Rev. Sharpton got here tonight. When we arrived at the church, the parking lot was full, the news trucks were everywhere and police were on hand to control us "rabble-rousing black folks."
The National Action Network was necessary in creating the infrastructure for the rally, for which I was extremely appreciative. The community was particularly gracious in coming out to take a stand for educational equality, which I found to be equally impressive. A glaring absence from the room was Ms. Williams-Bolar, but the issue is bigger than just one person, so I personally wasn’t concerned. I honestly can’t say why Kelley wasn’t at the rally or why her attorneys advised her not to show up, but I hope it was for a good reason. I also hope that they will one day allow her to thank the citizens who came out in bad weather to support her case.
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Hey peeps,
here’s an update to the case of Kelley Williams-Bolar, the woman in Ohio who was sent to jail for sending her kids to the "wrong" school district. Kelley’s case continues to get nation-wide support. We have partnered with change.org and colorofchange.org, who have collected nearly 200,000 signatures for a petition that is being sent to the governor of Ohio. The Ohio school system had been ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court, but they never offered any mechanism of enforcement, which certainly confuses me. Hopefully, Kelley’s case can be used to help millions of people. You can read more of my thoughts by clicking here.
None of this would have been possible had it not been for readers of AOL Black Voices and the Your Black World Coalition pushing the story as far and wide as you possibly could. When I got the story in my inbox, it was still local. But after I sent it out to you guys and the readers on AOL Black Voices, the world joined in the fight. Of course none of us can do this alone, but by working together, we can change the world.
One point that must be made clear is that my attention on Kelley’s case was not meant to disrespect the hundreds of other cases that have come to my email inbox. To be honest, I am just a man trying to make a difference and it’s impossible for me to help everyone that sends something to me (remember there are those at Syracuse University who’ve been working to fire me for being a radical black man). This kind of work takes a lot of money and time, so while I want to develop the infrastructure to do even more, the truth is that I was only able to really work on Kelley’s case because it had the ability to affect millions of people by changing the inequality in the school system. If anyone has ideas on how we can raise money to do this kind of thing full-time, please feel free to share your thoughts.
Sunday, Kelley and I were on the radio with Rev. Jesse Jackson and his son, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Congressman Jackson is proposing an amendment to the US Constitution guaranteeing all children access to an equal and high quality education. Also, Rev. Sharpton and I are planning to rally in Akron early next week (I’ll keep giving details on my blog as they emerge). This case is bigger than one person – we must make sure that the impact is both national and permanent.
Until we speak again, stay strong and be blessed.
Dr. Boyce Watkins
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Note from Dr. Boyce: Before listening to my interview with George Kilpatrick about the Kelley Williams-Bolar case, I had two questions:
1) Would her kids have been allowed in that school if they’d been two 6’5”, 220-lb basketball players? I’m sure they would have made an exception.
2) Its interesting that the judge wanted to send her to jail for her crime, but there are Wall Street execs who got less time for stealing millions.
The interview is here if you want to listen.
In my Lauryn hill voice, “The sweetest thing I’ve ever known is like the kiss on the collar bone”. Yea, it use to be sweet; that feeling of new love. You know, when your body tingles at his touch, and your heart beats fast from his texts. (I remember the day)
How could the person you once loved so dearly, become a stranger to your pupil. The touch changes and your heart becomes heavy from his text, when it use to beat fast!
“Letting Go is so hard”, even when you’re left with nothing to hold on to. I don’t know why, but we hold on, and we hold on so tight to non-existing situations.
Dr. Boyce Watkins on CNN’s AC 360 Discussing Kelley Williams Bolar
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We are working to help Ms. Williams-Bolar (below, the story outraged me). We are asking that you send an email to the mayor of Akron, Ohio. You can get his contact information by clicking here. We’ll keep you updated on this story, and I hope you’ll choose to take the time to support this mother in her ordeal. An email or phone call will make a difference.
Be well,
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action
An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelly Williams-Bolar was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove on Tuesday and will begin serving her sentence immediately.
The jury deliberated for seven hours and the courtroom was packed as the sentence was handed down. She was convicted on two counts of tampering with court records after registering her two girls as living with their father when they actually lived with her. The family lived in the housing projects in Akron, Ohio, and the father’s address was in nearby Copley Township.
Additionally, Williams-Bolar’s father, Edward L. Williams, was charged with a fourth-degree felony of grand theft, in which he and his daughter are charged with defrauding the school system for two years of educational services for their girls. The court determined that sending their children to the wrong school was worth $30,500 in tuition.
Steve Harvey’s ex-wife Mary has decided to break her silence about her estranged husband. In a series of three shocking videos, Mary goes into detail about Steve’s affairs and seems to imply that Harvey has no business writing a book about relationships. There is even a letter below from one of Steve’s mistresses that puts the “relationship guru” on blast:
by Alexis Stodghill, AOL Black Voices
Condoleezza Rice, the first black woman to become a U.S. Secretary of State, was interviewed recently on the newly minted CNN show, ‘Piers Morgan Tonight,’ to be asked of all things: Why are you not married? That question no successful African American female can escape. The single, black (semi-successful) woman that I am couldn’t help but shrink in insecurity as this ubiquitous puzzler was posed even to one of the most prominent black women alive. Why the embarrassment?
Yes, such questions make for great ratings. It’s a question Piers Morgan might have asked any single V.I.P. Watching a woman who used to wield massive diplomatic and military power talk of cooking fried chicken was a hoot. But despite the innocence of the utterance, for black women everywhere that question is the articulation of aGreek tragedy-style family curse: An unsolvable source of suffering for black women that just keeps getting passed down. Piers may not have known that, but refering to it even obliquely is enough to make one’s heart hurt.
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Poll Says Americans Losing Faith in Obama
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, The Institute for Black Public Policy
Recent polls are showing that 6 out of 10 Americans are losing faith in President Obama’s ability to run our nation. This decline in the president’s numbers is in stark contrast to where the numbers were at the start of his presidency. They are also reflective of the general fact that Americans are losing faith in government. While 60% of Americans polled say they have little belief in President Obama, 68% said the same thing about Democrats, and 72% said the same about Republicans.
I don’t agree with these assessments, since President Obama has proven time and time again that he is the most qualified candidate for the job. The broader challenge for the American people is that there are almost never enough good candidates available. The elitism that leads our officials to only consider Harvard and Yale graduates for the White House or Supreme Court nominations is disturbing, and such a limited set of selections is what causes us to choose incompetent individuals like George W. Bush or Clarence Thomas to run our country.
One Year After Henry Louis Gates: Still No True Teachable Moment
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, The Institute for Black Public Policy
Last year, our nation was brought to a standstill over an otherwise uneventful confrontation between a police officer and a professor. That professor’s name was Henry Louis Gates Jr. To our surprise, we then watched this non-event become the national spectacle, as the police officer soon learned not to mess with an angry professor with a good publicist. By the time the debacle was over, however, the professor quietly and mysteriously walked off into the sunset so he could try to redeem his public image on PBS specials.
One part of the political fallout was the additional damage caused to race relations in America, and a president who had to watch his poll numbers plummet as a result of his misguided intervention. To console the American people, we were promised a series of "teachable moments," designed to help our nation gain a greater degree of interracial understanding. Just like many college students across America, we were holding out for a powerful teachable moment, and instead we just got beer.
One year later, perhaps we can talk about the things that we were supposed to learn from the Henry Louis Gates case, but never did. I’ll take it from the top:
1) Every officer who arrests a black man, even a famous one inside his house, is not always doing something wrong. We must first investigate the facts.
When Gates was arrested, I was surprised to see how many people believed his story without spending a second analyzing the facts of the situation. I didn’t presume that Gates was innocent just because he works at Harvard University, nor did I presume he was guilty. Harvard faculty and students have been arrested on numerous occasions, but I am sure there are also cases when police overstep their authority.
Turpin Suicide and Other Kentucky Players Are Examples of How the NCAA Destroys the Lives of Young Black Men 
I’ve said it once and I’ll keep on saying it: The NCAA is an incredibly destructive force within the African American community. The league, which professes to offer opportunities to “educate” players, often turns into a pathway to broken dreams, empty bank accounts, prison sentences and even suicide. The stories involving former University of Kentucky stars Melvin Turpin and Antoine Walker are very good cases in point. Turner recently committed suicide and Walker is on his way to prison for gambling debts.
The goal here is not to focus specifically on the cases of Walker and Turner, but to instead talk about why the NCAA has so much power over athletes and how athletes might find a way to change that. Significant limitations on athlete labor rightshave been allowed by Congress, and they tend to be most strict on athletes in revenue generating sports. Nearly every activity and revenue stream of the athlete is carefully controlled, with the sole objective of keeping money in the pockets of old white guys. The racial element to this clearly unjust and unAmerican way of doing business cannot be denied. One has to wonder if the fact that most of the top college athletes are black plays a role in why the public perceives the NCAA to be helping the athletes, the same way a major corporation is considered to be a savior for five-year olds in a Chinese sweatshop.
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Hey peeps,
I spent the week in NYC finishing up the filming for our MSNBC.com special. It was grueling, but fun and interesting, the only time I’ve ever actually auditioned for a film and had to study a script to prepare for a production. Also, I spent three hours in the studio with Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday, and we received a surprise call from NY Governor David Paterson. I must say that I respect David Paterson tremendously, in spite of what the general public might think. Finally, I’ll be shooting my AOL show this week in New York. If you have good topic or guest ideas, please let me know.
Until then, stay strong, be blessed and always do the right thing.
Sincerely,
Dr. Boyce
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Tiger Woods and Obama are Mixed Race Americans: Why Do We Give Them Such a Hard Time About It? 
by Dr. Boyce Watkins – TheLoop21.com
Tiger Woods and I have very different tastes in women: He likes stick figures with blonde hair, and I like curvy, intelligent women with brown skin. But I’ve never attacked Tiger for his preferences, for that’s just a part of who he is.
There a lot of people who feel differently from me when judging Tiger’s marriage preferences and racial identity. While I know quite a few brothers who respect Tiger for his game on the course, I know even more black women who wouldn’t care if Tiger dove face-first in a pit of molten lava. They’ve always despised Tiger’s lack of interest in black women. In fact, Tiger didn’t even have a black mistress, which might be an even greater insult to some.
The most ridiculous things I’ve heard come from those who truly believe that if Tiger Woods had been cheating with black women, they would never have gone public on him. I’m sorry, but a porn star is a porn star, and they all have sex for money. The mistresses were going to get paid regardless, whether you’re talking about a seductress from Beverly Hills or a stripper in Atlanta, Georgia. They all want their money, so Tiger’s biggest mistake was choosing the wrong kind of women to spend his time with. Strippers and porn stars don’t hang out with ballers for nothing.
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Why Financial Reform Should Matter to Black People
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
Politicians can be trusted about as much as your drug-addicted cousin: You know he loves you, but he is going to lie to you. Why? Because addictions speak louder than love. Politicians are addicted to money and corporations have lots of it. Banks and Wall Street firms pour hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of our elected officials, creating an ever-growing divide between what they believe and what they do. That’s why most Americans don’t know if financial reform is designed to work for the people or for the banks.
Most of us are aware that the folks on Capitol Hill are embarking on yet another convoluted political battle involving our nation’s banking system. One side is going to tell you that their ideas are the best, and the other side is going to tell you that the first group is lying to you. But as a Finance Professor, I’d like to spend a second breaking down financial reform in a digestible way. The pending adjustments to our financial system represent the most significant economic-political transformation since the Great Depression. So whether we like it or not, these activities are going to impact our lives.
A couple of ways in which financial reform trickles down to the rest of our lives are credit card fees and lending rates. Some are arguing that credit card companies should be restricted in the amount they are allowed to charge for an overdraft or late payment. Some have also questioned floating rate loans or lending products with balloon payments that need to be refinanced. Believe me: If financial reform goes through, you are going to feel the effects almost immediately.
The Age of the Hoochie Mama is Over: It’s Time for Hip Hop to Grow Up
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
In 2004, the women at Spelman College told the rapper Nelly to take a hike for sliding a credit card through a woman’s backside. The women told Nelly to take his music elsewhere, and his concert was cancelled. I thought that after this incident, women across America would slide their own credit card in the other direction, away from the record stores and websites used to purchase music from artists who make it their mission in life to disrespect black women. I have to admit that I was wrong.
What has always amazed me is the fact that we have trained young people to endure and embrace consistent disrespect from rappers likeSlim Thug, who recently stated that white women are a far better choice for relationships, and Lil Wayne, who has done everything in his power to show just how little regard he has for African American females. Wayne even has a song called Alphabet B*tches, which isn’t exactly like the ABCs you learned in preschool. For some reason, we all keep dancing to the beat and showing up for concerts, reminding the artist that freedom of speech is in full effect, no matter how harmful that speech may be.
On the Funny Side of things…..How Did a Baby Learn to Dance Like This?
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by Dr. Boyce Watkins
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison. While incarcerated, he played soccer with his fellow inmates in order to avoid going insane under the brutal conditions. He was eventually released in 1990. Two days after his release, 85,000 people gathered to greet their new leader in a soccer stadium.That stadium is the same location where the World Cup is set to begin this week.
To say that this event has significance to Mandela would be a tremendous understatement.
The frail 91-year old Mandela has publicly stated that he plans to attend the World Cup, but he doesn’t plan to stay. He is making the dramatic exception of going out during the winter and jeopardizing his health because the world will be watching the country he loves.
At the end of apartheid, South Africa was banned from international sporting events. The nation has endured a roller coaster of successes and failures during that time, and earning the right to host the World Cup is one of the great achievements of both Mandela and his extraordinary country.
The FIFA World Cup is the most highly viewed event on earth, attracting over 715 million viewers for the final and a total of $2.2 billion viewers for the entire tournament. In comparison, the most highly viewed Super Bowl in history had 106.5 million viewers. The United States is one of the few countries around the world that doesn’t get extremely excited about the World Cup. In other nations, the excitement level is incalculable.
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Dr. Boyce Watkins on TheLoop21: The Age of the Hoochie Mama Is Over: It’s Time for Hip Hop to Grow Up
The age of the Hoochie Mama is over
by Dr. Boyce Watkins | TheLoop21 in Culture & Society
It’s time for hip hop, and its audience, to grow up.
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I think that since Vh-1 loves to honor hip hop every year, it’s time that we think a little more carefully about how they might do their jobs effectively. Don’t get me wrong, much of the greatness of hip hop should be celebrated, and having such a powerful awards show gives rappers yet another chance to be on TV. The added exposure creates money-making opportunities, and I’m always down for that.
But let’s be real: Is the entire hip hop industry really worthy of being honored all the time? Should every popular artist or well-known song be celebrated, or should some be maligned? To say that every impactful group or song in the history of hip hop is worthy of an honor is like saying that we should celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday just because he was famous.
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Apparently Bill Maher, the ultra-liberal talk show host who both entertains and annoys me, doesn’t understand what it means to be a black man. During a recent episode of his popular show, Real Time with Bill Maher, the host criticized President Barack Obama for not being a "real black president," (whatever that means) in his response to the gulf region oil spill. Rather than paraphrasing, please allow me to quote Maher’s exact words.
"I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt where you can see the gun in his pants. That’s — ‘we’ve got a motherfu**ing problem here?’ Shoot somebody in the foot."
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Dr. Boyce on MSNBC: Good ol fashioned Kentucky Racism of Rand Paul and the Tea Partiers – Click to watch
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As the father of three girls, I am not interested in defending a standard racist, statutory rapist, child molester or sexual predator. I don’t even like fellow college professors who think it’s O.K. to sleep with their students (I lost respect for a colleague over a case like this a few…
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I don’t dislike Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat. He claims to believe in freedom, and he’s from Kentucky, just like me. But growing up under the fist of Kentucky racism affected me, and Rand Paul reminds me of the men and women who hurt me the most.
Paul is a member of the Tea Party and a political star. He mobilized more Republican voters for his primary than any candidate in the history of Kentucky, and he may even one day challenge Mitch McConnell for the Senate Republican leadership. His views are fresh and new, in a subtly racist sort of way, and he’s a perfect fit for the anti-Obama climate that has led to our nation’s racial roaches coming out of the closet.
Paul took some heat for comments he made about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is politically sacred ground that even his fellow Republicans won’t touch. The firestorm started when Paul said that it should be ok for restaurant owners to discriminate if they choose to do so. In other words, if Woolworth’s had not wanted Dr. King at their lunch counter, they should have been allowed to turn him away. But he then went on to say that any business receiving federal funding should not be allowed to engage in discrimination, that Martin Luther King is one of his heroes, and that he understands the fact that racism in America has become systematic.
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by Faye Anderson
It’s Election Day in Pennsylvania, where voters will decide whether Democrat-turned-Republican-turned Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter stays or, as expected, gets the boot.
Specter’s primary opponent, Rep. Joe Sestak, hammered him for voting against Elena Kagan’s nomination as Solicitor General of the United States.
In a floor speech on March 19, 2009, Specter said:
I have gone to really great lengths to find out about Dean Kagan’s approach to the law and approach to the job of Solicitor General and to get some of her ideas on the law because she’s in a critical public policy making position… We had an extensive hearing where I questioned her at some length. Written questions were submitted and she responded to them. I was not satisfied with the answers which were given and when her name came before the Committee, I passed.
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As the father of three girls, I am not interested in defending a standard racist, statutory rapist, child molester or sexual predator. I don’t even like fellow college professors who think it’s O.K. to sleep with their students (I lost respect for a colleague over a case like this a few years ago). But I also believe in justice, and making sure that we know all the facts before convicting someone in public. (Read more @ Race-Talk)
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Hey peeps,
I am in NYC this week shooting episodes of my AOL show, "Dr. Boyce Watkins on AOL Black Voices." I admit that I’m a little drained, since I also did some work today on a series I’m doing for ABCNews.com on money and finance. But life is good, so I rarely complain.
I wanted to let everyone know that I received a call the other day from Sonny Vacarro, a former Nike Executive who is responsible for the creation of the Air Jordan sneaker. Sonny is backing a massive lawsuit against the NCAA for anti-trust violations and illegal use of athlete’s images on video games. I want to make it known that I look forward to meeting with Sonny in person, as well as the lawyers involved in this case and I back it 100%. I explained to Sonny that the NCAA’s recent $10.8 billion dollar TV rights deal further undermines the integrity of college sports by allowing old men to get rich off the sacrifices of young black men and their families. Worst of all, they are not even being educated.
Our group, The Athlete Liberation and Academic Reform Movement (ALARM) stands behind this lawsuit. I am sure I sound redundant by now for bringing this issue up on multiple occasions, but I am saddened to see HBCUs fall to the wayside while universities earn billions by unfairly restricting the labor rights of black families and making it illegal for them to negotiate fair contracts the way coaches can. I spoke with Ben Jealous, National President of the NAACP and The Rev. Al Sharpton about the issue, and I will continue to persuade them to become involved in this fight. It’s time for this madness to stop.
Be well and stay strong,
Dr. Boyce
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