Guest Editorial: Speeding backwards against success

The New Year has started out with a bang! Normally, this would be a good thing, but the problem is that a lot of movement is going in the wrong direction. We are speeding backwards in the direction of serious community dysfunction as we celebrate the 95th anniversary of the birth of the late, great minister, political activist and freedom fighter, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. An interesting and titillating series of events in this regard involves one of America’s top comedians, Katt Williams, trending to an astonishing extent on social media due to a recent podcast. Katt recently spilled plenty of hot “tea” on some of his fellow comedians, on Shannon Sharpe’s online show, “Club Shay Shay.” People Katt has thrown under the bus include Cedric, the Entertainer; Steve Harvey and Kevin Hart, among others. Criticism has ranged from people who have allegedly stolen material from him to their personal appearance and skill (or lack of it) as comedians. It has been said those he is putting on blast are people with whom he has had beef. The broadcast garnered an incredible 14 million views in just two days and is still trending. Overwhelmingly, audiences are applauding Katt’s performance...