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Calling All Democratic Voters: We Need You
As monied Republican supporters like the Koch brothers bankroll Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, Charles M. Blow of the New York Times writes that Democrats need that same sort of excitement and financial support to keep President Barack Obama in office. A Gallup poll released this week found that: “Democrats are significantly less likely now (39…
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When Gun Control Hits Home
In response to the Aurora, Colo., shootings on this week, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow writes about his conflicted emotions. Recalling his childhood in northern Louisiana, where owning and carrying guns was the norm, Blow wonders whether the right to bear arms and the right to be safe can co-exist in America. I…
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Just When Did Mitt Romney Quit Bain Capital?
Columnist Charles M. Blow recounts Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s multiple reports of his retirement from Bain Capital in the New York Times. He also discusses why much of Romney’s business goes over the heads of many Americans but the possibility of him lying does not. Here is where we must split the hair. All…
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President Wins With Obamacare Despite Right Wing
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow recounts the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to uphold President Obama’s health care bill and the unhappy Republican reaction. According to Blow, Justice John Roberts Jr. is something of a turncoat in the right-wing community, and the journalist couldn’t be happier watching the fallout. And what of the Judas chief…
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Bullying Is as American as Apple Pie
When a bus monitor named Karen Klein was barraged with insults and threats by several young boys and a video of the exchange was uploaded onto YouTube for the world to see, people were outraged. Some of the kids apologized and Klein has even gained a hefty vacation sum from supporters. New York Times columnist…
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Louisiana's Incarceration Rate Highest in US
Louisiana is in the prison business, argues New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow. Detailing statistics published in a New Orleans Times-Picayune series, Blow lays out how many Americans fall victim to this jailhouse paradigm. The picture that emerges is one of convicts as chattel and a legal system essentially based on human commodification. First,…
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On the 'Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln'
Last week a super PAC supporting the election of Mitt Romney was outed for planning to resurrect fodder around Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the controversial Chicago pastor who became a talking point during the 2008 presidential election, as a means of defeating President Obama. This isn’t surprising but the group’s salacious manifesto got tongues wagging around…
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Fix Education by Uplifting Teachers
Charles M. Blow of the New York Times argues that while education may be failing in America, it’s unfair to simply blame the teachers. Using his mother, an educator, as an example, Blow argues that during this month’s National Teacher Appreciation Week Americans should uplift instructors, take a hard look at increasing their pay and…
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President Obama and the Bachelor Swing Vote
As the “war on women” wages on during the 2012 presidential election race and single women choose sides, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow writes that unmarried men are the real swing vote. While Mitt Romney trails President Obama in personal popularity points, according to ABC News-Washington Post polls, Republicans argue that voters can’t…
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Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
