In a recent interview on G. Gordon Liddy’s talk show, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) said: the president has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race — on the side that favors the black person. Of course, King didn’t bother to point out any actual examples of […]
Yesterday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele released a statement about Obama nominating Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. His major complaint against Kagan seems to be this: her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution “as originally drafted and conceived, was ‘defective’” OMG, how can a nominee to the Supreme Court believe that the […]
An interracial couple in Louisiana went to a justice of the peace to get married, but were turned down, being told “We don’t do interracial weddings or marriages.” But the ironic part is that in an interview with a local newspaper, the justice of the peace, who is an elected official, said he was not […]
Excerpt from an opinion piece in The Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates: For black people, the clear benefit of Obama is that he is quietly exposing an ancient hatred that has simmered in this country for decades. Rightly or wrongly, a lot of us grew tired of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, mostly because they presented […]
Last week, Harvard professor Henry ‘Skip’ Gates (who is black) was arrested after he broke into his own home in Cambridge Mass., even after he had shown ID that this was his home. Last night at his press conference Obama was asked about the incident, and joked that if he had tried to jimmy his […]
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