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 balcony. The second was Serena […]
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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 stupid, admitting he didn’t know a […]
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 interview, he went nuts, and for […]
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: Do black people celebrate the […]
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 CNN which indicated that blacks […]