Petraeus Warns Against Torture
Will they lambaste General Petraeus as a week kneed terrorist appeaser? or will they gently explain that he doesn't know what he's talking about, and that we should continue to follow the military...
View ArticlednA VS Mychal Massie of "black conservative group" Project 21
Maybe you've heard of Mychal Massie. Maybe you haven't. Chances are, you haven't. Mychal Massie is part of a "black conservative" group here in DC called Project 21. I put black conservative in quotes,...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts On The U.S. Attorney Scandal And Race (UPDATED)
I think its important to view the Republican obsession with non-existent voter fraud taking into account the Bush Administrations reticence in enforcing Civil Rights laws. While Bush's DoJ is rabid...
View ArticleIf Obama Won't Support Affirmative Action, Then I Won't Support Him (UPDATED)
In the past few days, new details have been emerging about the lack of diversity in the mediaand in the Bush Administration, particularly in the Department of Justice, in the Civil Rights division,...
View ArticleObama And Affirmative Action Revisited
Empirical research bears out that race still matters in hiring practices, regardless of class, which means that black folks of all classes need Affirmative Action, not just those who are poor and are...
View ArticleWhen "Objectivity" Goes Wrong
There is something to be said for a standard of objectivity in the media that calls on reporters to interrogate their own biases in order to provide clarity in their stories. But occasionally, this...
View ArticleConservatives Really Like Jenna Jameson
For some reason, prominent conservatives all over America felt it was notable that apparent political juggernaut (who knew?)and occasional porn star Jenna Jameson said that she would vote for Hillary...
View ArticleFewer Americans Identify Themselves As Multi-Racial
Despite the varied ethnic origins of Americans, the reality of race in America is that there are really two races--black and white. Latino, Native American, Arab or Asian, how you are viewed tends to...
View ArticleNational Director of Intelligence Misleads On FISA
In his Op-Ed for the Washington Post, National Director of Intelligence Mike McConnell argues that our surveillance laws have not kept pace with technological advances, something that leaves us...
View ArticleJim Crow In A Shiny New Suit
What we have to recognize is that the Bush Administration's Justice Department is not committed to preserving the Civil Rights of African Americans or anyone else. It is committed to preventing as many...
View ArticleBush Funding Al-Qaeda Affiliated Terror Group
One of the worst things you can do to a mess is try to clean it up. The Bush Administration's policies in the Middle East have broadened Iran's influence, and by extension those groups, like Hezbollah,...
View ArticleCBC Chairman Derides Fox Critics as "Liberal Activists"
(Just par for the course during "screw the base" day. Remember how we worked to kill the Congressional Black Caucus/Fox News debate a few weeks ago? At the time, the CBC claimed it had nothing to do...
View ArticleList Of CBC Members Who Signed The Letter Urging Candidates To Reconsider On...
Yesterday I posted on new developments in the conflict between the CBC and Color of Change, among many, many others, over their intention to host a debate with Fox News, as well as their most recent...
View ArticleAfrican-American Muslims And Al-Qaeda
The latest Pew poll of American Muslims shows that by and large, the overwhelming amount of American Muslims condemn terrorism and have an unfavorable view of Al Qaeda. Aside from distorting the...
View ArticleStop Bitching About Stop Snitchin' (UPDATED)
Despite the cultures of secrecy permeating all levels of American culture of government, the "Stop Snitchin'" phenomenon has managed to generate questions in the media as to whether or not refusing to...
View ArticleAmerica's Pimp
Today's New York Times article has some very revealing statements about American conceptions of masculinity in its swooning piece on Rudy Giuliani:The dyspeptic, "not afraid to suggest his opponents...
View ArticleA Letter From The Black Netroots To The Democratic Presidential Candidates
The following is a letter written by Color of Change, and signed by various members of the black netroots urging the Democratic Presidential candidates not to legitimize Fox by participating in the...
View ArticleGeorge Will: When Pomposity Becomes Delusion
I think my favorite part of George Will's article "The Case For Conservatism" is when he names things that conservatives support and then explains why they're bad.Will attempts to blame everything from...
View ArticleWashington And DC Meet At H20
When I was trying to explain the diverse makeup of an audience at a preview of the recent Hip-hop Project film hosted by the Center for American Progress, a friend suggested that the audience was half...
View ArticleOn Hip-hop And "Acting White"
These novels have in common a subterranean assumption, unspoken by the emancipated, but living on in our culture and apparently shared by the novelists themselves: the assumption that whiteness is a...
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