Author: Daryl Baskerville

In light of the recent developments in Syria, the question arises among many as to the morality of war. The Obama Administration has successfully withdrawn troops from Iraq, a long costly engagement to the United States, in terms of lives and money. Reportedly, the War in Iraq and the Afghanistan War cost the U.S. upward of 10 Billion Dollars per month and somewhere around 5,000 lives lost. The number of troops left with permanent injuries both physically and psychologically has created an influx of veterans to hospitals and clinics for costly long term treatments. That is just scratching the surface…

Black on Black Murder. White on Black Murder. Every other murder where black youth are the targets and victims stems from the same source: racism. If people knew and acknowledged U.S. history, we will see and admit that young black life is not worth very much in society. We see a consistent assault on black youth, mentally as well as physically. Conditions were systematically put in place to pit blacks against blacks by a racist structure; poverty, ghettos, drugs, and every other vice that was allowed to flood the black community and mindset. A whole demeaning culture has been put…