Mitch's Blog

It’s another year for Black History Month to try to get people who could care less to understand just what it used to mean to be black in America. I say it that way because based on a lot of what I see, most people care as much about that [...]

Today is the holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. I haven’t addressed it every year, though last year was something special because it was the day before Barack Obama was sworn in as president.
It’s been a strange year, and I’ve sometimes wondered what Dr. King would have thought [...]

What’s going on in America these days? A few days ago, a book excerpt came out which reported that the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, commented during the 2008 presidential campaign when Barack Obama was still trying to become the Democratic candidate for president, stated that Obama could easily [...]

A couple of days ago I wrote a post where I talked about my friend George Chapman and his unique idea, which I still think is a pretty good idea, on a health care plan.
We talked about a lot of things, and one thing in particular came up. I was [...]

On Friday morning, I came to the computer before I went to a meeting to see if there was any interesting news that happened while I was asleep. I was probably as shocked as everyone else was when I saw the news headline that President Obama won the Nobel Peace [...]

Over the last few days, we’ve seen a couple of public outbursts that have stunned a lot of people.
The first was Wednesday night during President Obama’s speech to Congress, where Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina reacted to something the President said by calling him a liar from the [...]

Yes, I’m taking a stand here.
There’s been this big outcry over what President Obama said Wednesday night regarding the story of Robert Gates and the police office in Massachusetts. President Obama said he felt the action of arresting this man while he was in his own home was [...]

Last week, Rachel Maddow, after the confirmation hearings on Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor, ended up having Pat Buchanan on her show to discuss the issue. Buchanan has been dead set against Sotomayor, which is fine, but he kept calling her an affirmative action pick.
However, during the [...]

I used to play a lot of email chess against an older gentleman from England. We used to talk about a lot of different topics, and pretty much nothing was off limits, though we’re talking about political and religious topics.
Then one day he surprised me with an intriguing question: [...]

It’s been an interesting week, for sure.
We had the passing of Michael Jackson, my favorite musician of all time, and someone who was able to break down the barriers of race and potentially bring people closer together around the world.
But the week began with a poll conducted by [...]