the hardline
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Glenn Beck's Falling Down
Glenn Beck has been flying off the rail for years now, but you can forgive him for calling Obama a racist. He sees… BLACK PEOPLE. He isn’t a lot different than some othe white people you know who have been able to basically ignore black people all their lives. They know black people, they may…
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Obama's Health Care Crusade
With his daily approval numbers taking the deepest dip thusfar, President Obama tries to drum up support for his health-care reform by hitting the road. It’s a hard sell because people aren’t anti-reform, they are pro-themselves. Somehow, they think they have the magic job that will last forever and never have any need for a…
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Ten Beers Likely To Impede Racial Harmony
President Barack Obama has invited Dr. Henry “Skip” Gates and Sgt. James Crowley to the White House to have a beer and hash out their differences behind Crowley arresting Gates for disorderly conduct a couple weeks back. Normally, this is where you would cue the laughter, but it’s no joke. Skip’s drinking Red Stripe, Crowley’s…
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Crowley Should Apologize Now
Cambridge Police Officer Sgt. James Crowley won’t apologize for responding to a call of a break-in and subsequently arresting Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. on a charge of disorderly conduct. He says he was doing what he’s paid to do and he’s right—-Crowley’s a public servant doing a hard, thankless job. I don’t think he…
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Notes of an Uppity Negro
Franz Fanon, the famed French psychologist, suggested racism was a psychosis internalized by both oppressors and oppressed peoples manifest by persistent paternalism and entitlement on one side and perceived inferiority and acquiesence on the other. People that know me know that I don’t believe in racism per se, but I do believe that Fanon was…
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Charges Against Dr. Gates Dropped
Cambridge Police have dropped disorderly conduct charges against Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., according to a report by CNN. “The City of Cambridge and the Cambridge Police Department have recommended to the Middlesex County District Attorney that the criminal charge against Professor Gates not proceed,” says the press release. “Therefore, in the interests…
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The Education of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., at a minimum, quashes any talk of a post-racial America. It may not be the best example of racial injustice I’ve ever seen, but it’s a great example of how life for black people is often complicated by class and race. If a mild-mannered, bespectacled…
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The Virtual Break-Up
Last week, San Antonio Spur Richard Jefferson dumped his fiancée by email, more or less at the altar. Just when you think you’ve heard it all, you hear something new, right? Maybe I’m getting old, but anything but a break-up face to face is a punk move. If you ever had any love or respect…
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NAACP: Now What?
The NAACP has done alot of good, but I’m not confident that they have a useful purpose going forward. As I said on CNN the other night, the NAACP has some challenges with focusing. They seem to want to tackle everything at once, which ends up with them not tacling anything thoroughly. They boycott N-words…
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The Search for Self
While I am not so inclined, there are alot of black people using DNA to search for thier African roots. It’s not that I’m not curious, it’s just that I don’t know, once I spend that money and find out, how that information will enrich my life. Are any of you curious about your African…