Remembering My Words, I Wonder: You Still Mad?
February 8, 2024 by agutting@reviewjournal.com
Filed under Community, Uncategorized
BY LOUIE OVERSTREET
I began writing a monthly column for Black Image back in 2014. And in that time, I have managed to make a lot of readers mad at me. As such, I thought it would be fun to revisit the scene of the crimes — what I consider to be my most controversial columns over the years.
December 2015: “When Dealing with the Police, Is It Justice or Just Us?”
People mad that I noted from 2001 to the end of 2015, twice the number of people were killed by the police than died in the Twin Towers terrorists’ attack.
August 2016: “No Escaping the Fact, America is a Gun Nut Nation”
Noted that Black mayors fought for a gun control plank in the party platform at the 1968 Dim (ahem, Democratic) Convention.
June 2017: “The Unlucky 7 Reasons Why America Will Not Be Great Again”
One of the reasons: the lack of consequences for politicians lying.
March 2018: “GOP Giving Poor Folks in Hell in 2018”
I noted three ways: keep the poor disorganized; dehumanize them in subliminal ways; disenfranchise them.
November 2019: “America’s Code Red Situation”
America’s future would be determined by whether we experienced a revolution, evolution or a devolution.
September 2020: “It Is On: Patriotism versus Tribalism”
Posed two questions that required answers to determine what type of future America would experience.
July 2021: “Critical Race Theory, My Sitdown Part!”
The lack of understanding of the term was causing plenty of uninformed resentment.
January 2022: Who and What are Killing America?
The who: the Republican Party. The what: fear, division, and bigotry.
February 2023: “One White Do and Two Black Don’ts
Dealt with my opposition to reparations.
There, “the cat is out of the bag!” I have known this since I started writing op-eds in 1980 for the Anchorage Times: if you want to make people mad, write about race, politics, religion, and the haves and have-nots.
