UK Blacks have fundamental differences to our white counterparts. A UK Black would almost always moisturize freshly bathed skin, even males. This isn’t necessarily so for our white counterparts.

Black people are black people, right? No matter where we are, we have the same traditions, experiences, knowledge and culture – don’t we? Or, do we?

The difference between African-American Pride, Latino Pride, Jewish Pride and White Pride is that, White Pride is usually based solely on skin color. When it’s your color and not your culture that unites you, that’s what makes you racist.

You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

White women have benefited more from Affirmative Action than any other minority group.

This morning in it’s editorial section the NY POST apologizes for a cartoon in Wednesday’s paper that had many across the country screaming foul.

I get what you’re saying but IMHO, it’s the “thugs” who have paved the way for dreads being more acceptable. Like most everything in African-American culture, our style, our music, our way of being began in neighborhoods and “hoods.” By the time it becomes pervasive in the “hood” so to speak, the mainstream is just taking notice.

This whole election just affirms my belief that there are no accidents in life. Everything happens for a reason. God doesn’t make mistakes.

Simple Rule: If you’re an ex-convict, if you’re on probation and even if you’re not, cornrows and dreadlocks are not hair styling options.