By Lucius Gantt – I consider myself to be a nice, peaceful and law-abiding man but I have been incarcerated on more than a few occasions, mostly for being present, but not exactly participating, at civil rights demonstrations and protests. The last time I was jailed for trying to kill a policeman, or as the […]
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You Get What You Voted For By Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report – Let’s get the obvious out of the way first. The journalists you love and the podcasters, influencers, and news reporters that you love will never admit the President-elect got the most votes because many people voted against the Vice President because she was Black. So, you got what you […]
Poll Perjury by Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report – I hope the members of the Democratic Party closely watched the recent and raucous Republican Party Convention. The Grand Old Party had a tremendous amount of unity and support for their deceitful nominees for President and Vice President. Cheers for the Republican nominees were preceded and followed by cheers for their […]
Modern Day Apartheid – The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt – When one neighborhood gang takes; or tries, to take over another neighborhood allegedly controlled by another gang, the neighborhood citizens could get caught up in violence between the two gangs. You’ve seen TV shows and movies depicting one drug dealer’s efforts to take over corners being worked by other drug […]
Be Like Fani Willis
The Gantt Report, By Lucius Gantt – I don’t know Fulton County DA Fani Willis, but I love her. She is the standard of excellence for Black elected officials. I opine about politicians. I write about them in The Gantt Report more times than my readers want me to. However, Fani Willis is not your […]
Love and Respect Black Elders
By Lucius Gantt 3877 (The Gantt Report) – When some people want to disparage me, they don’t say I’m incompetent, untruthful, inexperienced, or uncaring. The only thing they can say is, “Lucius is old”. Well, I am old. God has blessed me with life longevity. When you have children that are old enough to […]
Willie Lynch Media – The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt – I began my media career at 17 years old when I was hired by WSB-TV, Atlanta’s largest and most famous television station. The year was 1968. At that time, I didn’t know I would have a long media career, I just wanted a job. After graduating from high school, my mother […]
Lock Him Up and Lock Them Up
By Lucius Gantt — A considerable number of people that I know have a family member, friend or neighbor that has spent some time in a jail cell. Lack of evidence, false witness testimonies, lying jurors and corrupt prosecutors and judges have no problem putting innocent Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans and immigrants behind bars or […]
Political Paladins – By Lucius Gantt
(The Gantt Report) – Once upon a time, there was an American television show called “Have Gun, Will Travel”. It was about a gringo gunslinger named Paladin that went from town to town in the Wild West helping people solve problems that a gunslinger could solve. In my mind, Paladin was more than a […]