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The McCain Option? Pul-eeze.
Memo to William Jelani Cobb.Re: Your proposal that “if Hillary Clinton receives the Democratic Party nomination, African Americans should consider voting for John McCain.”Knee-grow, pul-eeeze! Your column on The Root ranks as the most ridiculous political idea any Negro has put forth my since my brother-in-law decided to support Clarence Thomas on the grounds that,…
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Digging Kunta Kinte
Watching [The Root’s Editor-in-Chief] Henry Louis Gates Jr. delve into the ancestry of African Americans on PBS recently got me thinking about Alex Haley’s Roots, the book that started it all. Both the book and the phenomenally successful mini-series based on it came out during the 1976-77 academic year when I was a Nieman Fellow…
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A Clay Moment
As Clay Davis, my favorite character on The Wire, would say, “sheeeeeeit!” Yesterday’s election results have given me the blues. I was hoping that Barack Obama would knock Hillary Clinton out of the race and lock up the Democratic nomination. Instead, Clinton’s big wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island have set us up for…
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A Nash'nul Conversashun 'Bout Race? O-Tay
From the blog of Patrick J. Buchanan: Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands…
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Forget the Government Conspiracy
Forget the conspiracy theories that claim Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was the result of a government plot. Lyndon Johnson, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the FBI had nothing to do with it. James Earl Ray killed King. If any organization was involved, it was more likely the KKK than the CIA. That’s the…
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Generation Envy
I’ve always considered it a blessing to have grown up black during the 1960s when the walls came tumblin’ down. My formative years, politically, were shaped by protests against segregation and the Vietnam War, led by heroic men and women my own age. They made me a radical. In addition, the 60s came with a…
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Renounce Me, Obama!
Any day now I expect George Stephanopoulos, Sean Hannity, Hillary Clinton and John McCain to pressure Barrack Obama to renounce my endorsement. Mind you, Obama woudn’t know me from the man in the moon since I ‘ve never actually met him. But that’s splitting hairs. I’ve watched him on TV: I want him to win,…
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If Clinton Were a Man …
According to a report I read here on TheRoot, Bob Johnson, “the billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television says Barack Obama would not be a leading presidential candidate if he were white.” Since Johnson is a Hillary Clinton supporter, I started to wonder if his candidate would be a leading presidential contender if she were…
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Less like Jigga, More Like Mike
That’s the message Barack Obama should glean from the trouncing he received last night in Pennsylvania. If he wants to be President, he first has to defeat Hillary Clinton in both North Carolina and, more important, in Indiana two weeks from now. To do that, he is going to have to behave less like Jay-Z,…
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A Friend of a Friend in Pennsylvania
I’m indebted to Sam Stein of The Huffington Post for unearthing this YouTube video of Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell in 1997 showering praises on….drum roll, please…MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN! Yes, Louis Farrakhan, the same Louis Farrakhan about whose links to Barack Obama Hillary Clinton and George Stephanopoulos made such a fuss a few weeks ago. I’ve…
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