Rico The Opinionist

Your vote is actually your right! -- Rico Rivers @Ricotheopinionist    YouTube/Twitter/IG Before blacks in this country had the right to vote, WE made economic and educational moves that yielded major progress in this country for many of us individually, but especially as a group. We somehow still became doctors, lawyers, college professors, engineers, business owners and home owners. Hell, a few of us even opened up colleges and universities for our kids to attend and be educated. What's more, when we did not have the legal right to vote, WE unified organized, and FUNDED the movement that led to the right to vote. So, what happened? That's a long answer, I'm sure. However, WE (black Americans) fought for the right to vote and have been voting religiously since 1965 or 55 years ago. Every election cycle we remind each other robotically, "Hey, our people fought and died for you to have the right the vote." Hell, even people who aren't black have jum

Office of the Governor Governor Greg Abbott P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711-2428 Dear Governor Abbott: I have written to express my deep disappointment and dismay at your recent display of overt favoritism from the Governor’s office in the recent Shelly Luther salon debacle here in the city of Dallas. I would like to inform you of what I witnessed as a fellow Texan and what the country witnessed as fellow Americans last week during the Shelley Luther situation where she was completely wrong and totally out of line for deliberately violating the Texas Supreme Court’s stay-at-home-order mandate of closing non-essential businesses as a safety precaution to us residents in the state of Texas and who also violated your very own stay-at-home executive order. Shelley Luther violated the stay-at-home executive order supposedly in the name of “feeding her kids,” which still remains to be seen as the entire truth. She showed outright disrespect to your state wide executive ord

# CandaceOwens I understood your message of encouraging blacks to leave the Democratic plantation from your Conservative platform and organization called # TurningPoint . I also understand your far right political leanings, which is certainly not against the law. You've articulated your pros and cons as it relates to the unbalanced relationship between blacks and the liberal left and I agreed with your arguments.  However, this latest premature and irresponsible rant in the recent murder of # AhmaudArbery among other things, have caused me to adjust my " benefit of the doubt" meter when it comes to your so called "telling it like it is" style of presenting what you believe are facts. Granted. None if us are beyond or above critique. However, I've always found it very interesting that you and many other avowed # BlackConservatives rarely, if ever, share scathing critiques about WHITE conservatives. White cops who murder unarmed black males or anyone