Politics
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Confrontation vs. Conversation: Yelling at Hillary Won’t Get You an Answer, but It Will Get You a Response
The late Whitney Houston once infamously told Wendy Williams during an interview, “Watch what you say, baby girl. Watch what the f—k you say.” In the past few weeks, select black activists and voters have more or less been telling Hillary Clinton the same thing while a speech she gave back in 1996 continues to…
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The Red or the Blue Pill? When Black Voters Refuse to Get High on Political Promises
In the midst of the two-party, seemingly now two-candidate, political brawl this country finds itself engaged in, there are young black voters who are saying no to politics as usual, no to a Democratic Party that has morphed into a moderate Republican Party, and no to a Republican Party that believes in big government only…
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Trump Surge or Revolt? Black Voter Turnout Skyrockets in Ga., Va. GOP Primaries
African-American voters are the biggest story coming out of Super Tuesday, to the surprise of many in both parties. Republican turnout was higher than Democratic turnout in just about every state, but the numbers in two places, Georgia and Virginia, are particularly striking. In both states, African-American turnout in the Republican primaries jumped by historic…
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Super Tuesday Results: Clinton Sweeps the South Plus Mass.; Sanders Takes Colo., Vt., Okla. and Minn.
Updated Tuesday, March 2, 12:30 a.m. EST: Donald Trump is the apparent winner in Vermont, beating out Ohio Gov. John Kasich in a close race, according to the Associated Press. It is Trump’s seventh Super Tuesday win. As of the time of publication, Trump had won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Also winning…
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Symone Sanders Differs From Bernie Sanders in Almost Every Way—Except in Name and Politics
Symone D. Sanders skips states like rocks across a river. In a recent week, the 25-year-old national press secretary for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spent a day in New Hampshire, the next day in New York, and then it was off to Wisconsin and then on to South Carolina. After that it was Atlanta,…
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Thank You, Ben Carson
Super Tuesday 2016 will soon be gone. Barring either 1) a miraculous influx of cash from donors with next to nothing else to give their money to (in which case, I would like to point them toward my IRS bill because the feds are absolutely not playing with me this year) or 2) a decision…
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Bernie vs. Hillary: Who’s Better for Black Voters?
So which one will it be, folks? If you’re voting on the Democratic side, are you going for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? Who really has the interests of the black electorate at heart? A lot is at stake this year, when 31 percent of the eligible voters will be either black or Hispanic. The…
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52 Vile, Racist Tweets 1 Writer Received From Trump Supporters
Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. It all started with a column in the Washington Post. On Feb. 21, Harvard professor Danielle Allen penned a piece entitled “The Moment of Truth: We Must Stop Trump.” It was a “prompt for the trolls,” she said, speaking to The Root,…
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David Duke Be Damned: When Will Donald Trump ‘Disavow’ the Klan?
Donald Trump is a racist. He says racist things, has endorsed racist policies while running for president and has engaged in racist practices while running his various businesses over the last 40 years. As most of American history has shown us, being a racist is by no means a disqualification for running for president. However,…
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Their Own Worst Enemies? The GOP’s Black Conservative Problem
After receiving less than 7 percent of the black vote in the last two presidential elections, the Republican Party had a quandary. It could win in midterms. It could win locally. But nationally, there was a problem: The GOP couldn’t win the presidency without more votes from people of color. And it couldn’t win with…