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11/22/2025

MTG's planned resignation announcement is nothing to celebrate. It is not sustsinable for minorities to be a homogenous and monolithic band tied to one political party. There must be a plan to make a change to have a voice in multiple political parties.

Racism, classism and sexism can be defeated. Parties can be opened by strategies and planned action. No one has to be a puppet. Tables and power opens up by organinzed action. Taking crumbs is a tired model.

11/16/2025

Evil and Culture
Copyright 2025
Craig Kyle Hemphill

When we consider culture and the model of hate, do we or should we consider evil and culture? Bear in mind that Christ and culture is the intersection or intersections of understandings of religiosity and how we perform or live life in fidelity to God. Or at least one aspect of a guiding ethos of "being" Christian. If then that is the standard of American post-colonial through mid-1970s' religious and political thought, then evil and culture is the antithesis.

What we truly note is an anti-Christ culturalism masquerading as a moral and patriotic compass of light. If we as a certainty believe that there is not a duality with respect to God and an equal anti-God power. That is to say there is not a co-equal evil power that rivals God, then evil and culture is a subtext to a deficiency in American social guide.

What we have then when we observe the current cruelty and evil existing in this moment concerning American society is a spirit of bold disobedience to all things Holy.

Arguably, we exist in the present time in a vulgar hedonist performative agenda masquerading as a mandate toward righteousness.

This then is where we began our examination task of evil and culture by examining the evil of culture. Similar to Neibuhr's Christ and Culture with its points of intersection. We look to examine the evil of Culture to disect its influences on law, religion, politics, American democracy and its debasing/pervassive decay of Western morality.

Subsequently, as we have the evil of culture, we take examinations the evil in culture, the evil as culture, evil beneath or debasing culture and evil masquerading as transcending culture. All these demonstrating evil and culture to ask the question, what of God, humanity, sin and salvation?

CK Hemphill

11/13/2025

Antisemitism and racism against blacks Jews are the same side of the coin.

Both blacks AND Jews must unite to LOUDLY confront the issues that both isms present. You CANNOT have silence from either side. Both must express in a unified voice what it means to be a Jew and what it means to be black. Both are religiously persecuted. The two are one in experiencing hatred, physical assaults, racial discrimination and indignity of inhuman treatmet; the Holocost and the Atlantic slave trade. C**n, K**e, watermelon people, jew boy, vermin and ni**er are one in the same racist words. Burning crosses and swatztikas are the same.

The Jew AND the black COLLECTIVELY must explain to their children what it means to be black and what it means to be Jewish. And BOTH must fiercely defend each other. Any racism by a Jew toward a black is the definition of stupidity. Any racism by a black toward a Jew is the archetype of ignorance.

There is one strong thread of united decency that should be the combinef cord between the black and the Jew in unification. Period.

Rev CK Hemphill, Esq.

10/10/2025

Just a simple comment. The Nobel Peace Prize is not an award given by lobbying to receive it. Who would not want the Award?

Awards are earned by excellence and hard work. I have been a member of Kappa Alpha Psi for over 30+ years and have never received a direct Fraternal award. And THAT is a good thing because obviously I have not earned one.

When I received the 2009 B'nai B'rith International Distinguished Humanitarian Award when I walked across the graduation stage at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, I was floored the faculty nominated me and honored me with the Award. It was completely unexpected and I had NO CLUE it was coming until I heard my name called and I had to do a double take.

Nothing beats recognition based on hard work, temerity, grit and commitment. Popularity awards fade. Earned awards last!

CK Hemphill

10/06/2025

STUPIDITY AND ECONOMIC PRAGMATISM

Professor Craig K. Hemphill
2025

“Class, if you learn your economics you can do what I do everyday. What is that? Read the Wall Street Journal and eat a ham and cheese sandwich!”

Late Dr. Tom Holland
Professor of Economics

“There are lies and then there are damn lies.”

Statistician Proverb

Free markets never do well with artificial price manipulations. Whether by price ceilings, floors or some tax scheme. Macro monetary policy works best when driven by market influences.

The recent US tariff policy is the archetype of stupidity in economic analyses and a damn lie in statistical probabilities.

One cannot cause an economic crisis say for US soybean farmers by causing a price increase in US goods and then suggest a circular bailout for the farmers. The path is not economic pragmatism. This is especially true when there is an ability for market participants to seek soybeans elsewhere.

A well-thought out monetary or fiscal/trade initiative would have taken into consideration the ability for trade participants to seek US product alternatives elsewhere. Instead, the shortsighted belief is that US goods are soo superior that there is no alternative. Lies and damn lies.

From an economic perspective market players will now need to start speaking with consumer power and votes if we have any hope of preserving the US capitalist system.

Learned economics certainly lead to ham sandwiches and Wall Street Journal insights. Tariff manipulations do not. Any other notion is a damn lie!

10/05/2025

ENDORSEMENT OF RE-ELECTIOM OF LYNN CLOSURE FOR MISSOURI CITY CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AT LARGE POSITION #2

In every generation there is a time such as now where any particular country, the collective people of that country and varied communities existing in the country must forge a path to abolish under elements that threaten societal freedoms—especially in a capitalist system example concerning the ultimate ability of free enterprises to survive. This is so even when those who exist as one in a democratic republic and a free market system become gravely oblivious in baited slumber to real hidden dangers that erode and seek to erase conservative and social benevolent ideas engrained in a free culture.

Over the years, I witnessed Lynn Clouser work tirelessly to promote social awareness and programs to uplift special needs individuals, promote capitalist ideas and programs to help large corporations, small businesses and one-person sole proprietorships to thrive—no matter the ethnicity or political perspective of the business principals and decision makers.

Miss Clouser represents competence and intellectual sophistication to effectively create local government policies, ordinances and social/business initiatives to continue to uplift Missouri City in Fort Bend County, Texas. She is a true Texan and is a voice of pragmatic reason needed on the local government level to help ensure a high level of civic representation that epitomizes what it means to be a true and patriotic American woman. Lynn stands not only for Missouri City residents but also people outside of her constituents. Miss Clouser seeks to represent all Americans.

For the above reasons, I without reservation endorse the re-election of Miss Lynn Clouser for Missouri City City Council at Large Position # 2.

Craig Kyle Hemphill, Esq.
Managing Legal Counsel
CKH
Legal

09/28/2025

05/01/2021

Always seek the better choice over the purely self choice.

03/02/2020

“Something About Him Makes Me Uneasy: Fool, It’s Money then Politics. The Uneasy Societal Plight of the Black U.S. Voter.”

BlogHemphill
2020

Contributor
C.K. Hemphill

In the history of American politics and the nature of economic empowerment in the United States, every ethnic group who came to this country transitioned from skilled labor to that of economic mobility and subsequent political power. Every other ethnic group came here, however, not as forced slaves, but as marginalized, nevertheless, sub-groups by American majority standards.

The resounding difference of how African slaves and ultimately Black Americans moved up in the U.S. social caste is the lack of acceptance of skill and paid appreciation—e.g., the Chinese, although mistreated gravely, were paid—lowly paid, but paid. Thus, Black Americans never gained an early appreciation of economic power because the power was purposely re****ed or all together denied them.

In the cards dealt to them, Black Americans sought alternative capital—social/political voting capital; the best capital they could garner. This caused problems for Blacks because it lead to an inequality of benefits for White Democrats or early on Republicans (actually a better party prior to the flip of racist Southerners to the party in the 1960s) who made promises for office power and status and left Blacks with merely a Christmas ham. This also lead to the “parrot of” by the eventual Black politicians and leaders who mimicked what they witnessed in the political machine. This has caused a continuing problem for Black Americans today.

Too often, Black Americans sell their soul to a politician without understanding the game. They base votes on feelings versus reality. I can always stand for a racist candidate for a meaningful seat at the economic table. I don’t need to eat with you as long as I can eat and own my own grocery store by putting you in power. The Irish, Jewish, Chinese, and Italian immigrants understood this well. The Black collective have voting power, but, fail to translate the same into economic empowerment. Note well, I never support a political fool even if I gain financial power because a fool will make my money short lived. I support the candidate who although racist, he or she respects my hand to put them in office and I respect them to get paid and move on up! There MUST be a deal struck!

Learn this and stop voting on emotion and hollow policies. Own your own businesses and do politics. !

06/14/2019

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The Application and Analysis of U.S. Reparations to African Slave Descendants

C.K. Hemphill
Contributor
June 14, 2019

Should White people pay for the acts of other White people concerning slavery and race brutality against Blacks?

This is not the question. Out of all my White friendships, I have no desire for any of them to pay a dime for past American misdeeds. This question and the analysis is incorrect as to the individual examination. The collective Republic is the question. Should the U.S. government pay Blacks reparations? Certainly.

We are a Republic. The Republic in its laws erred and transgressed against Black people from the African countries concerning slavery and brutality. Black descendants here are from those transgressed people. Therefore, the Republic should come to terms with some form of reparation. It is not a new remedy. The Japanese, Original American peoples, and others have had this quietly done. The issue is only loud because it is Black peoples, which, annoyingly, continue to be maligned, abused, and experience miscarriages of injustice and brutality.

That is the issue. It is NOT taking money from any sole White person. And let’s be real—the taxes that Blacks pay and the disparity in income and social norms in our country means that Blacks are really paying them damn selves. Thus, it is simply eating a slice of the pie 🥧 that we cooked in the first place!

-CKH

11/27/2018

Of America and Christian “American-Theology.”

Craig K. Hemphill
2018

Christianity in current U.S. culture is defined by race and nationalistic viewpoints on religious interpretation. The problem facing these two powder kegs of religion and/or culture beliefs/influences is that where there is race there is division. Similarly, where there is nationalism there is distrust, violence, and also division. For sure, these problems have always plagued Christian existence in human interpretation and “attempts” at Christocentrism definitions applied in human theology. Yet, current American forms of Christianity make the faith hardly identifiable with basic Christian building fabrics and notions passed down over a Millenia.

Concepts regarding Christian theological ideals regarding love of neighbor and restraint from profane communications are now replaced with self-adulation expressions of self-first misapplied preservation and existence over others as the “least” and vitriolic violence in words and acts against those not a party to a one-sided American Nationalistic view. The concept of current American Christianity, then, is simply the essence of a harmful discriminatory group identity based on a lust for power through misplaced moral justifications. It is downward passed on as being up and wholeness as excused and dismissed as incorrect or weak. Further, not only do we have a discriminating group dynamic for lust for power, we too have an abuse of power by a dangerous ethos of self entitlement of a minority of one-sided group preservationist. In all this, we are faced with a swelling dilemma of American-theology causing eroding damage to the true message of Christian theology. A message of change and hope in a Messianic representative of diverse people. “American-theology”, contrarily, is based on insecure and warped senses of the meaning of Christianity that leads to injustice and self-righteousness. All this floated as a nation under God. Whose God? Christ’s God? How?

10/21/2018

Final endorsement for this election cycle:

Cruezot for DA in Dallas. Used to talk to him in Chambers often when I was 21 clerking for Dallas DA Office. I can think of no better candidate.

Final thoughts in voting in the 2018 Midterms

Generally, any incumbent who has failed your individual expectations and are complicit to the current shape of the country, vote for their opponent.

If you are a Republican and the incumbent is Republican and failed you and the country in your heart of hearts—vote for the Democrat or Independent.

If you are a Democrat and the incumbent is Democrat and failed you and the country in your heart of hearts—vote for the Republican or Independent.

If you are an Independent and the incumbent is Democrat or Republican and failed you and the country in your heart of hearts—vote for the opponent.

Let your conscious be your guide. Pray for wisdom outside of cultural biases. And know God for yourself versus knowing what someone told you about God.

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