Friday, March 30, 2012  Using Your Voice  It's about time. Time
for what, you ask? It's about time that some mainstream black
athletes finally showed some concern for something other than
themselves. Now, I'm sure you're saying to yourself, "but,
athletes give money to charities all of the time on top of
visiting kids hospitals, etc."  Yeah, but all of that is the
safe thing to do. How many of today's black athletes actually
stand up for a cause that's political? How many of today's
athletes stand up for a cause that's racial? For something that
involves the possibility of losing a sponsor therefore losing
one of many paychecks?  I'm sure by now, unless you've been
living under a rock a la a Geico commercial, you've heard of the
Trayvon Martin shooting tragedy. If you haven't, then Google it.
Long story, short, the Miami Heat basketball team did a photo
shoot of all of the players wearing hoodies just like Trayvon
was when he was killed. To many, this photo means absolutely
nothing, but to a black man like my