The blogosphere is all atwitter about Sen. Harry Reid’s quote about presidential candidate Barack Obama. The then-Illinois senator was described, in private, by the Nevada senator as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Cries of racism have been seen and heard throughout the far reaches of Cyberspace. And I, [...]

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 [...]

by Rev. Irene Monroe
At Michael Jackson’s memorial service the Rev. Al Sharpton gave a rousing speech that had the congregation at the Staple Center rise to their feet at times with shouts of Amen.
Shaprton made one particular statement in his speech to MJ’s three children, addressing the reasons for Jackson’s eccentricities when he said, “ [...]

By Denis Campbell
It was a Page 11 story. STILL racially segregated proms  exist in the deep USA South. It barely rated a whisper. Perez Hilton getting punched by the Black Eyed Peas manager and the crisis in Iran led the news. All sides said in Georgia said the prom situation was “normal because their parents [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
Hannity Insanity
Few people are better at creating a Krauthammer-lauded “alternate reality” than Fox’s Sean Hannity. Columnist Dick Polman provides an excellent example:
On his Fox show one week ago, Sean Hannity told his credulous fans that President Obama had made a deliberate effort during his Cairo speech “to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice [...]

by Tim Wise
 
It was all too predictable that Attorney General Eric Holder would be attacked for his recent remarks about race in America. To suggest that the nation is still haunted by the specter of racism is unacceptable it seems, especially since, with the election of President Obama, we have ostensibly entered the “post-racial” era.
But, in [...]

by Charley James (and friends)
Thanks to my friends Mike and Micheline who teach in Guangzhou for sending this me today.
What if…
things were switched around? Think about it: Would the country’s collective point of view be different? How much does racism influence our opinions? Ponder the following: 
What if…
the Obama?s had paraded five children across the stage, [...]

In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she [...]