Politics
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Supreme Court to Take on Obama’s Immigration Plan
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider a legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, setting up an election-year review of his plan to allow up to 5 million immigrants living in the United States illegally to work in the nation legally. The Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful…
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Fighting Racism in the Age of Obama
No one said it would be easy. After all, what’s simple about fighting something that’s baked in the cake of American society, that constitutes its original sin? Racism. That’s racism with a big R and a little one. The kind that’s in your face and explicit, and the kind that you can’t grasp with your…
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Stop Treating Black People Like a One-Issue Voting Pony
Admit it: When you finally tuned out (or logged out) of this past Sunday night’s Democratic presidential-primary debate in Charleston, S.C., you walked away with the distinct feeling that black people have only one or two issues to worry about. Watching headlines and candidate sound bites, the nation might be under the impression that the…
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The Deadening of Blackness in the Age of Obama
After George W. Bush ran the country into the ground, we all clearly and desperately wanted change. Black voters, especially black women, overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. Certainly, as a self-identified African American, his candidacy was historic, but he won the black vote because he professed an agenda that we believed would be good for…
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Top 3 Takeaways From the 4th Democratic Debate
The fourth debate between the candidates for the Democratic nomination for president in Charleston, S.C., Sunday night was an exciting affair if you had never seen or heard of, or had no familiarity with, the candidates. But if you are like most Americans who have any interest in politics, there was not much last night…
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Where Are the Democrats as the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is Under Attack?
As the Democratic presidential candidates debate this Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, everything King and the civil rights movement fought for is at risk. An angry, xenophobic, race-based backlash to the inclusion and empowerment of people of color is ripping through the fabric of American society, but the candidates fail to rise to the occasion.…
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Nikki Haley Makes the Case for Old-School Racism
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley wants to take things back to the “old school.” The establishment’s choice to represent a “sensible” side of Republicanism, Haley’s response to the State of the Union address seemed to target GOP front-runner Donald Trump more than President Barack Obama. “Today we live in a time of threats like few…
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The State of the Union Was Obama’s Exit Interview With the Nation
Many Barack Obama supporters, knowing that Tuesday night was the very last State of the Union by the president, got some funny ideas in their heads. Having vicariously experienced all of the stress, racism and abuse the president has suffered over the last eight years, many were waiting for him to just get brolic onstage—to…
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The End Equals the Beginning: There Is No Black America, Says the President
Tuesday night looked so good, I almost didn’t pay attention to what President Barack Obama was saying. I did notice that he morphed back into his 2004 happy-warrior persona, attempting to tie a yellow ribbon around a country containing a substantial white population that will hate his Muslim, gun-removing, socialism-promoting presidency to his dying breath.…
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GOP Rhetoric Makes 2016 the New 1964
Spend time with “young thugs,” not CNN. That was one of the recommendations Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) had for President Barack Obama in a memo Wednesday on gun violence that he posted to Facebook. Wrote Mica: “Conduct town hall meetings, not on CNN, but rather with young thugs in homicide-prone cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit…