A Panther coaching the Cougars…What the Hell?

Having gone to West Side,  I always noticed how our school played second fiddle to Roosevelt in the minds of the elders in my neighborhood as well as the sports writers. I understood history was on their side.
As I understand it, Roosevelt was the place where black kids attended high school during the segregated times [...]

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Gary Indiana Coaching Debacle

Even if things change by tomorrow, the verdict is in…the leaders of the Gary Indiana School system from top to bottom are inept.
Enough of th excuses. To not have the high school football coaches INTERVIEWED 3 weeks before the first games are played is unacceptable. Especially if the decision was made to actually interview basketball [...]

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West Side Alumni Chris Hunter signs with the New York Knicks

West Side Alumni Chris Hunter was signed by the Knicks after having a stellar season in the NBA D-League with Fort Wayne.  He is the first player from Northwest Indiana to play in the NBA since Glenn Robinson.
There’s no coincidence that both hail from G.I.. Though that area (or region as they call it) continues [...]

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Starting 2009 off with a bang…

That bang is on MY drum. That’s right. My blog is MY drum. It just took me reading several comments from (what I believe to be)  members of the white race to realize what my blog really is.
In 2009, I’m bangin on it like I’m at a ZULU tribal dance. I’m bangin on it like [...]

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My Hometown Gary, Indiana

This blog represents the first in a series of blogs that will attempt to chronicle “what’s wrong & right with the City of Gary, Indiana”. The blog is written with the sole purpose of creating forward thinking dialogue on how to improve, not lambaste, the City that I grew up in.
No, I no longer live [...]

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Gary Indiana Basketball News

This post kicks off the 2008/2009 Gary Indiana Boys and Girls Basketball season. If you’ve found this post and you either live in Gary or are formerly from G.I., please leave a message on your feelings/thoughts on this upcoming basketball season, as well as those types of thoughts on past seasons.
I just find there is [...]

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Upsouth. My Home State Indiana.

Martin Luther King used the term “UpSouth” to characterize his thoughts of the State of Indiana whenever he traveled to it.  Essentially, he was inferring that unlike other non-southern states north of the Mason-Dixon line, the fervor of the racist climate was as negative in Indiana as it was in, say,  Alabama.
Having grown up in [...]

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Revolution within the Black Community

Those of us who TIRED of black people making excuses for our race need to jump behind Obama and his call for the black community to be more responsible for their own actions. Though this is nothing different then what Bill Cosby has said on numerous occasions in the past.
Case in point. The very house [...]

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Bowman Academy?

I recall reading about John Boyd (Coach of West Side) sounding bitter about the circumstances of a charter school (I think Bowman) affecting where the ever thinning basketball talent pool goes to high school in Gary.
Having been born and raised in Gary in an era where charter schools were not a problem, I can only [...]

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Unintended Consequences

So Obama might just be the next president of the U.S.. While I applaud his position, I also have to signal the need for his black supporters to “wake up and smell what’s brewing”.
I mentioned in previous post how a Barack win will bring about a new type of perspective on blacks in the eyes [...]

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