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Southern Discomfort: Virginia Governor Apologizes for Slavery Omission in Confederate History Month Proclamation http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/07/2260440.aspx Gee, thanks. That takes the sting out of a month commemorating the oppression of black folks. Like the good ol’ boy that he is, Republican Gov. Robert F. McDonnell apologized for omitting slavery in his Confederate History Month proclamation. An oversight…

Sometimes, black folks underestimate the amount of envy they create among some white people. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s decision to celebrate Confederate History Month for the first time in eight years is likely a response to Black History Month. “They” had a month to highlight their achievements; we’re entitled to a month to celebrate “ours.”…

The growing debate in the United States about the increasingly virulent hate speech by so-called Tea Party activists and their talk radio and Republican Party boosters has resonance these days in South Africa. The ruling African National Congress is engaged in an increasingly bitter court battle over its claimed right to continue singing publicly so-called…

It’s too bad Michael Steele is so obsessed with equating himself to President Barack Obama. The chairman of the Republican National Committee tried to put his troubles on the same plane as the president’s on Monday when he was getting heat about his management of the GOP’s fundraising arm. Steele was accused of playing the…

Hey Michael Steele: Republicans Want Accountability at RNC Now that a brother’s in charge, Republicans want accountability? Riddle me this, Michael Steele wasn’t at the strip club, but should be held responsible for his idiotic colleagues. For all of this trouble, Steele should have gone with them and gotten a lap dance. Cue the theme…

As a youthful admirer of leftist protest movements during the 1960s, I became a connoisseur of violent political rhetoric. Which is to say that I‘m acquainted with the power of angry words to fuel explosive action.  And how, like mystics chanting a mantra to enter a mindless trance, extremist activists, on both the left and…

Thirty-thousand kids and parents attended the Obama White House’s second annual Easter Egg Roll during a beautiful spring day in Washington Monday. The president and first lady, along with their daughters, Malia and Sasha, and first grandmother, Marian Robinson, greeted the crowds from the south portico of the White House, overlooking a stretch of lawn…

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 162,000 jobs were added in March. It should be noted that within those stats are the temporary census workers hired by the government. Still, the data available indicates that the economy is turning around at a slow, steady pace. For a look at a quick breakdown of the…

It took one word for the point to hit home: “Hypnotized.” Hearing that word from a black Tea Party patriot during a recent television interview demonstrated why so many black people want no parts of the Tea Party. I have joined my fellow black conservatives in an effort to make black America politically diverse. We…

It’s ironic that the first chairman of the Republican National Committee who descended from slaves might finally be ousted from power by a scandal known as “Bondage-Gate.” And yet the incident, involving RNC expenditures at an S&M-themed nightclub in West Hollywood, puts Michael Steele—the first black head of the powerful conservative arm once run by…