Santorum challenges Obama’s American-ness: “Obama is detached form the American experience. He just doesn’t identify with the average American because of his own background. Indonesia and Hawaii.” Hmmm… I not sure from which angle to hammer this nut from. I question the motives of those seeking to push an agenda solely by agitation. I find [...]
Bravo to South Carolina, for a change. South Carolina is now home to some of the most pioneering political sea change in the Republican party in more than 50 years. Nikki Haley, a conservative Indian-American, is poised to become the state’s first female governor– and first minority head of state in its history. Republican state [...]
I have a friend who thinks he’s figured out Black folks predilection for voting for black candidates. He believes that black folks vote for black candidates because they are black. That’s it. No mystery, or political theory behind it. Sure he cites several polls detailing the overwhelming support President Obama received from black voters during [...]
Tags: alabama·artur davis·black people·Elections·issues·polics·Race·white
Be careful what you send in an email. There is a good chance that that email could be forwarded. And, if you’re arguing a point that has significant racial overtones– buffered by bigoted arrogance–then you should be extremely careful who you send that email to. From Kashmir Hill: … I just hate leaving things where [...]
Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure – the ones who are driving the [...]
Tags: Government·Race·Tea Party
For an indeterminate amount of time, black leaders in black communities have carried the banner and led the charge for equality. With progress and the realization of long denied promise in the form of Barack Obama–the nation’s first black president– comes a new form of turmoil and myopia in black leadership. The problem with having [...]
Whole Foods now? This is getting really ridiculous. Very reminiscent of the Wal-Mart incident: Police in northern New Jersey say a 14-year-old girl grabbed a supermarket microphone and announced, “All blacks leave the store…” Edgewater police say the new case is being investigated as a possible “copycat” situation. They say they were called after the [...]
A few weeks back I wrote the first part of the Barack Obama- Silas Lynch analogy. Silas Lynch was a character in D.W. Griffith’s turn of the century landmark film Birth of a Nation. The Lynch character exhibits a megalomaniacal thirst for power, and is driven by his racially mixed blood to perform acts of [...]
Tags: allusions·Barack Obama·Birthers·community organizer·Conservatives·poor·Race·Racism·silas lynch
David Remnick has an interesting take on Barack Obama’s political ascension. Here he details the president’s congressional loss to Bobby Rush in Illinois– and posits that Obama’s blackness was a major contributing factor in the loss. Pretty fascinating take. I’ll have my own as part of a broader story on the black political agenda tomorrow. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama·Politics·Race·Racism
The American Prospect’s Adam Serwer weighs in: Smiley has taken the same sort of position that Republicans take on national security issues — Republicans say Obama doesn’t say “terrorism” enough, while Smiley doesn’t think Obama engages in enough direct public advocacy on behalf of black Americans. Smiley doesn’t actually engage on the question of whether [...]
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