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Obama Gets "We Love You"s in Cairo
Barack Hussein Obama opened his much-anticipated speech to Muslims world-wide with greetings of gratitude and peace — “Shukran” and “As-Salaam-Alaikum.” From there, the President set out to build a bridge between the United States, which was born out of revolution in the 1700s, and the Arab world, which was born out of revelation and faith…
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Crazy Love
ABOUT SOPHIA NELSON I am a recovering lawyer and a typical Gen-Xer female—I have officially entered middle age (the 40s) and I have embraced it (well, as much as anyone can). I threw myself a huge 40th birthday bash two years ago and danced on the tables with 100 of my closest friends, sorority sisters…
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Memo to Black Men: Grow Up!
I love Jimi Izrael, and I cannot wait to read his forthcoming book, The Denzel Principle, but I have to take issue with his piece last week titled, “Memo to Black Women: Get Real.” Did I sense a bit of anger or something going on? Let me say this about the line “lose the high ideals and get your…
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The Uppity-Negro Syndrome
The furor over former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s remarks that “an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man” reminds me of a scene from John Singleton’s 1997 film, Rosewood, which dramatized the real-life lynching and burning of a rural, predominantly…
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Black Folks Behaving Badly
It used to be that black folks as a people did not behave badly in public. You all know what I mean. You have been in the grocery store and watched in shock as children of another “hue” lay on the floor, acted out, and talked back to their parents. It used to be that we…
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Clair Huxtable & Me
I will never forget Thursday nights at Washington & Lee University law school in Lexington, Va., in the fall of 1991-spring 1992. Laura, Ronda, Charlene and I would all gather at Laura’s apartment and watch The Cosby Show and A Different World. We blocked out this time religiously so that we could have a study and…
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On Health Care, Rep. Alan Grayson Calls Republicans "Neanderthals." Really?
Democratic Florida Congressman Alan Grayson has a bone to pick with the Republican party. Watch: He continued his tirade on CNN, calling the GOP more names. The Republican party may be many things, but “foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals”? I think not. As someone who spent 20 years in the GOP (I now consider myself an independent),…
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A Black Republican's Memo to Democrats
Speaking today in the aftermath of hushed diplomatic talks in Geneva about Iranian nuclear ambitions, President Barack Obama told Iran: “Our patience is not unlimited.” Mr. and Mrs. America: Here we go again. The rogue nation (yes, I said rogue) is making promises to “talk” and to allow in International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, yada, yada,…
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The Obama's Living the Life
Congrats Mr. President on winning your Noble Peace Prize! Once again my heart is filled with pride and my eyes well with tears as I sit and reflect on where we have come as a people. Our ancestors must be briming with pride as they watch (be clear their eyes are watching us) this young,…
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Who You Callin’ Uncle Tom?
Black folks shouldn’t have their “black card” revoked just because they don’t share the opinions or conventional political views of the black community. There is a troubling trend emerging in the black community relative to our freedom of speech and the right to dissent. I have been attacked and vilified, marginalized by some because I…
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