by Rev. Irene Monroe
If we resided in a post-racial society then William Faulkner’’s words uttered in the 20th century would not ring true in this century - “The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.”
With the election of Barack Obama as this nation’s first African-American president many of us had hope [...]
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The Conversation America Won’t Have on Race
Posted on 25 September 2009 by Rev. Irene Monroe | Comments (0) | Tags: A Bound Man, african american, Barack Obama, bargainer, challenger, Eric Holder (Attorney General), Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson, Peter Boyer, post-racial society, President Barack Obama, President Obama, racism, Rev Irene Monroe, Shelby Steele, William Faulkner, You Lie!
Gay Pride Speaks to Equality
Posted on 06 June 2009 by Carl Matthes | Comments (0) | Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Carl Matthes, equality, June as "Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month", Lyndon Johnson
by Carl Matthes
In the Oxford English Dictionary “equality” means, “Identical in amount; neither less nor greater…having the same measure, number, value, intensity.” How did three Democratic presidents, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson, speak to equality?
President Barack Obama on Monday, June 1, 2009 named June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month” issuing [...]
Will hope black out despair?
Posted on 17 March 2009 by Monroe Anderson | Comments (0) | Tags: 'Black Power!', Barack Obama, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committ, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Urban League, civil rights movement, Danielle Belton, Dr. Martin Luther King, Greenwood Mississippi, James Compton, Life magazine, Monroe Anderson, National Urban League's annual conference, POTUS, replaced John Lewis, shooting of activist James Meredith, State of Black Chicago speech, Stokely Carmichael, Tavis Smiley, The Black Snob, Will hope black out despair
by Monroe Anderson
When I was in junior high, my speech teacher cited an article in one of the popular periodicals of the time–Look or Life magazine, if memory serves me right–reporting that the Negro was the most motivated American in the nation.
You can tell how long ago that was by the Negro reference. It was [...]
End of the Economic Age of Aquarius
Posted on 12 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 15-years 1946 – 1960 to get it right and look at the me, 1st generation seeks to lift their family out of povert, 2nd generation sees how hard the 1st worked and keeps t, 3rd having known no strife or suffering fritters it awa, 47-years and six months, afford shoes for their feet vs. slippers or sandals, anti-war movement and never listening to ‘The Man’ or a, back to wearing slippers, Barack Obama, Barack Obama officially falls one year outside of the B, Carter, Chinese proverb: slippers to slippers in three generati, chose a narcissistic and obsessive lifestyle, creating the Summer of Love, Denis Campbell, dodgy when compared to the greatest generation, Eisenhower, End of the Economic Age of Aquarius, fiddled whilst Rome burnt, Ford, globally lived until last year in the 3rd generation, in between Boomers and Generation X, Johnson, Many view this as a ‘good’ thing, Nixon, now complain, post WWII Boomer birth cache, Presidential legacy – Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, protested and dropped out of Universities in the late 6, Reagan, Roosevelt, spent like drunken sailors on shore leave, stressed school systems to the breaking point, Truman. we sold out, We then sold out ourselves in the 80s
By Denis Campbell
At 47-years and six months, by dint of birth, Barack Obama officially falls one year outside of the Baby Boomer classification. Many view this as a ‘good’ thing. Those of us born and residing in the post WWII Boomer birth cache had 15-years; 1946 – 1960 to get it right and look at the messy set [...]
What if John McCain was Black?
Posted on 03 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1st black man, Barack Obama, BMW, broke the colour barrier, commander in chief, could not sit at a lunch counter, could not stay with his teammates in hotels, Denis Campbell, dine with his teammates in a restaurant, Ferrari, Forbes Magazine projects, Formula 1 Racing Driver’s Championship trophy at age 23, have to live to this level of perfection every minute o, Jackie Robinson, leader of the free world, Lewis Hamilton, lot to do to heal our country, Martin Luther King, McLaren race car, never made a fuss, never raised his voice never ever stepped out of line, obama, owe a debt of gratitude to a man they never met, President of the United States, Renault, retired as quietly and gracefully as he arrived, sit at the front of any bus, slept in Coloreds Only rooming houses, so many men of colour in all walks of life thank him fo, stakes were too high, the first to play baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the scourge of racism, the South in the 1950s, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods will become the first sportsman to become a, To be black in politics means to be perfect in every wa, What if, What if John McCain was Black, Would anyone vote for him with his character and histor, ‘I Have Dream’ speech
by Denis Campbell
Would anyone vote for him with his character and history if he’d been black? To be black in politics, means to be perfect in every way, every moment of every day. He would have had to set and live his life to an impossible standard of perfection ‘off’ his field of play that [...]
Now Greenspan Tells Us!
Posted on 24 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (1) | Tags: 000 check from the Republican National Committee to buy, admitting he was wrong about unfettered free markets re, apologetic, as if consumer groups, Barack Obama, Charley James, Colin Powell shattered John McCain’s claim to being a m, former Fed chair Alan Greenspan, former Fed chair went on to warn about the economic con, Gee, Hockey Mom Sarah gets caught with her skirt down in a N, House Committee of Government Oversight and Reform, I don’t know how significant or permanent it is, I found a flaw, I have been very distressed by that fact, I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests o, members of Congress haven’t been warning of precisely t, not even the RNC could stomach Rep. Michelle Bachman’s, Now Greenspan Tells Us, saying that he cannot see how we will avoid a significa, specifically banks and others, Waxman pressed Greenspan to explain, were such as that they were best capable of protecting, you should be apoplectic, you think?
by Charley James
Whoops! My bad. Sorry.
In effect, this is what former Fed chair Alan Greenspan is telling members of the House Committee of Government Oversight and Reform today by admitting he was wrong about unfettered free markets regulating themselves.
“I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such [...]
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