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 [...]
Tag | Jimmy Carter
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!
Bring Cuba In From The Cold
Posted on 04 January 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: 1200 cigars, Bill Clinton, Cuba, embargo, Fidel Castro, George W. Bush, Havana, Jimmy Carter, Major League Baseball, Paul Beeston, Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy, signed treaty banning trade, South Florida
by Charley James
At the end of the state funeral for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on October 3, 2000, official mourners were milling about in front of Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica. Cuban president Fidel Castro stepped over to Jimmy Carter to ask a serious political question:
What did Carter think of using the love of baseball shared [...]
Who’s Got Next?
Posted on 29 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 20 hate-spewing e-mails, 29 specific policy points, acceptance speech, Are we a nation of whiners, British Foreign Secretary David Milliband, Bush Administration, Democratic Convention, Democratic nominee, do you have the judgement, do you have the temperament, EU leaders, eviscerated Republican slime machine point by surgical, explosive temper, film ‘The American President’, hate machine, he more than punches his weight and has a deadly outsid, invoked memories of 9-11 two weeks ago, Jimmy Carter, let's not make this big election about small things, mile high stadium, NATO, nice sentiment, not ready to abandon diplomatic means, now you’ve done it, nuclear button during a fit of pique, obama, point by point attacked the other side’s arguments, President Saakashvili called him out, Presidential candidate, shouted ENOUGH, temperament of hot-headed McCain, The Republicans, the stupidity of Bush’s last 8 years, there you go again, threatened Russia with expulsion from the G-8, Twin Cities, vintage Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, was my upbringing a celebrity’s upbringing, watch the skinny black guy, we are all Georgians now, Who’s Got Next, You've got next on court, YouTube, you’ve made him angry
As the evening closed to orchestral strains from the film ‘The American President’ playing in the background, there was not one fictional note in Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s acceptance speech before a crowd of 90,000 people at Mile High Stadium. Reflecting on the tone, all I could think of was the archetypal movie line, “now [...]
The 16-Month Marathon Continues
Posted on 07 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 25%, Big Papi, Boston College, Bush's 3rd term, clinton, Guantanamo, Jimmy Carter, John Anderson, marathon, McCain, misstatements, obama, primary season, Red Sox, Rev. Wright, Roberts Center, Ron Paul, temper, treaties
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It has been an amazing primary season. The pundits, media and bloggers around the world have been breathless schoolchildren for the past 116 years as the contests pile up like weekly train wrecks and the Big MO’ (Baby!) swings back and forth like Boston Red Sox DH Big Papi Ortiz’s spring bat, erratically but when [...]
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