All Posts Tagged With: "Black"
When Over 90% Of Blacks Vote For Obama Is That Racial Politics?
Townhall
By Mike Gallagher
Would the media say it’s racist if over 90% of whites voted for Hillary?
It had to be one of the single dumbest questions ever asked in the history of network television.
Diane Sawyer was chatting up James Carville, the irascible Clinton loyalist, about the West Virginia Democrat primary. She turned to Mr. Carville and, [...]
Fox News Opinion - Susan Estrich
Is the Race Discussion Over?
Fox News
Opinion: Susan Estrich
Did he do it?
That was the question my friend, herself an old friend of Barack and Michelle Obama, asked me in the wake of the Illinois Senator’s powerful and eloquent speech on race this this week.
Did he put the issue of race to rest?
The short answer is [...]
Another Angry Black Preacher
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Let’s ask the hard question about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Is he as far outside the African American mainstream as many of us would like to think?
Because Barack Obama’s speech on race in America was so candid about both the legitimacy of black and white grievances — and [...]
All The Men Are Black, All The Women Are White,
and Some of Us Vote: A Remix
BlackProf
by Salamishah Tillet
I spent the better half of Tuesday afternoon, listening to and reading the transcript of Barack Obama’s speech on “race.” Obama’s address was thoughtful, progressive, eloquent, brilliant, moving, and insightful. He did all the things I wanted him to do, acknowledged the founding “sin” of [...]
White Suspicion, Black “Luck”
Gregory Rodriguez
For decades, critics of affirmative action on both sides of the aisle have argued that the policy calls into question the talents and qualifications of the minorities who benefit from it. They insisted that it generates a cloud of suspicion around the successful black or Latino student or professional. It makes whites wonder whether [...]
When Money and Activism May Not Mix
Syracuse University
Black Prof
by Boyce Watkins
When reading Tavis Smiley-related blogger comments on YourBlackWorld, I actually started to feel sorry for Tavis. Not since Milly Vanilly have I seen a brother lose so many fans so fast. His attacks on Barack Obama were about as popular as Cheeseburger flavored Ice Cream, and the brother was going down [...]
The Good Luck Of Being Black in America
Daily Kos
by draylogan
Geraldine Ferraro has made a thought-provoking and surgical comment about why Barack Obama is doing so well with the electorate and the American people in his campaign to be chosen as the Democratic nominee for President.
Essentially she said that he was “lucky” that he was a black man. That all of his successes [...]
Is Black Support Of Obama Turning Off White Voters?
Barack Obama May Unite Us or Divide Us
The Boyce Blog
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
Barack Obama’s emergence as a powerful Presidential candidate is truly worth celebrating. Beginning as a modest participant in the election, his creative political genius gave African-Americans the courage to support a black man. Hillary Clinton’s role as the “political sugar substitute” came to [...]
Barack Obama Is Just Like Us
Barack Obama Refuses ‘Boxers or Briefs’ Question
US Magazine .com
In the new issue of Us Weekly, presidential candidate Barack Obama invited news director Lara Cohen to join his campaign for a day. He described some of his best Just Like Us moments, and took our Presidential Pop Quiz (where he revealed that his daughters think Britney [...]
Banished by Black Prof
by Sherrilyn Ifill
Nooses have fallen so far outside the national conversation that it came as somewhat of a shock last Tuesday when President Bush finally condemned noose displays in a ceremony at the White House commemorating Black History Month. The noose, said the President “is wrong . .. [and has] no place in America today.” [...]
20Feb2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
