The Gantt Report – To some Americans, NFL quarterback Michael Vick is the most hated man in the United States. The hatred intensified when Vick announced plans to release an autobiographical book about his life and news writers and internet posters went to work telling the world how terrible Vick was and is. Michael Vick […]
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Presidential Bo Peep Is Losing His Sheep – by Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report – Little Bo Peep once lost her sheep and didn’t know where to find them. Well, the Bo Peep Commander in Chief appears to be losing some of his Black sheep and efforts to bring them back into the fold seem to be failing miserably! If you read America’s Black newspapers, visit […]
Amos and Andy Advertising – By Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report – The Barack Obama campaign has finally released a “Black” political television ad. I say finally because a message to the President’s strongest supporters should have been released long ago. Many reporters and columnists have mixed feelings about the advertisement. Some say the ad was “dumbed down” compared to other political ads […]
Riding The Black Man’s Coattails – by Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report – On my first visit to the continent of Africa, I was received by my African brothers and sisters with open arms. Smiles were everywhere and I was truly glad to finally see the land and touch the grounds that my ancestors had walked on. I traveled to Zimbabwe, Botswana and all […]
Prosecutors Are Like Ghosts by Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report – Prosecutors and law enforcement officers oftentimes think like Casper, the so-called friendly ghost! In the world of ghosts, everything is white! Ghost Hunters are white and Ghostbusters are white or act white. Have you ever seen or heard of a Black ghost? Have you come in contact with a Hispanic ghost […]
The Central Florida Puppet Project – The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt – Everybody reading this column has a family member, a friend, a classmate, a coworker or a neighbor that always seems to be complaining, protesting, speaking out or standing up about insensitivity, injustice or inequality. Instead of those people being honored, appreciated or praised, people we know that fight for our rights, […]
Trayvon Martin Murder – The Return to Slavery Days – by Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report – Five hundred years after Slavery Days in the United States we find that there are still more than a few people that think they can do anything they want to African American men, women and children and get away with it. Have you forgotten how our great grandparents and other ancestors […]
Don’t Believe The Mortgage Settlement Hype – By Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report – The so-called government inspired mortgage settlement is a cruel joke on American homeowners and bank depositors. Bankers, money changers, predatory lenders and financial criminals are jumping for joy after the United States government unveiled a plan that would allow each and every one of the crooks that conspired to steal trillions […]
Martin Luther King Was A Convict – By Lucius Gantt
The barbeque smoke permeated the Black community air on Martin Luther King’s birth date in 2012. Some people golfed, some were boating and many people participated in symbolic marches where they locked arms on one side with closet Klansmen and on the other side with neo-Nazis and walked a couple of blocks singing “We Shall […]