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Why Obama is Acceptable to Whites

There is something about Barack Obama I distrust. As an Afro-American (part of the culture of descendants of African slaves) his ignorance of or refusal to acknowledge what he is not disturbs me—mainly...

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Michelle is Ungrateful? For What?

Ramesh Ponnuru, author of the hilariously titled The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life, has purged once more on the pages of the Washington Post....

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It's Official; The Press Has Turned on "Presumptuous" Obama

I guess the Uppity One on a World Tour was just too much for their lily-white hearts.  There are, after all, rules.  In the Willa Cather world the Washington press corps inhabit, decorum is life....

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If Race is Not Welcome, Are Blacks?

Everybody considers Obama through the self-reflective prism of his blackness while pretending to ignore the fact that Obama is black.  White Democratic primary voters made all manner of unsupported...

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Mitt's VP Wannabe Diary

Dearest Diary,  Just had a chat with Cheney.  God he’s freaky.  He said he was pushing me to McCain’s folks for VP.  Somehow he made it sound… scary, like he’d pack me off to Gitmo if I didn’t get...

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The Shelf Life of John McCain's Honor

My father was a career military officer, so pardon me if I don’t genuflect at self-important, self-serving mentions of our “brave men and women in uniform,” too often invoked by those who never served,...

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The Evangelical Jesus Cure for Unforgivable Blackness

After a couple of slave rebellions in the early 19th century, American Christianity shifted irrevocably from a catalyst for slave liberation, to an additional shackle securing black men in bondage to...

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Katrina Plus 3 Years: The 'Nigga' in New Orleans

Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita battered the homes of hundreds thousands of Louisianans, too many residents are still unable to afford to rebuild their homes or find an affordable place...

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Obama the Politician Slays Obama the Prophet

At some point, Barack Obama had to decide if he wanted to be President, or a prophet; if he wanted to lead a government, or a Movement.   In the primary, the whole "Movement" schtick worked.  He was...

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Every Man for Himself, Said the Elephant Among the Chickens

Andrew Sullivan, squawking the name “Milton Friedman” as if it magically disappeared the ridiculous, sat on Bill Maher’s show blaming the financial crisis on American consumers who bought houses they...

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McCain Was Presidential, Yes--Nixonian

In the final debate, McCain was Presidential.  Only the President was Nixon.  The man behaved like an bitter, petulant child.  He was righteously pissy throughout the evening.  He was trembling.  He...

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Somewhat More Visible Man

I’ve often wondered what it might mean to “feel” American—to truly accept its glories and shame as my own.  Looking at and listening to the Cindy McCains, George W. Bushes and Ronald Reagans of the...

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Blacks, Gays and the Myth of the Saintly Oppressed

In the wake of the overwhelming black vote in favor of Proposition 8 and the gay reaction to that vote, the following occurred: - Gays attacked blacks for homophobia.   - Blacks attacked gays for...

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At Obama's Rise, Praise King's Movement--and Bury It

Martin Luther King was a great man who led one of the defining movements of the 20th century—for America, and by example, for the world.  However, I believe he was fundamentally wrong in the...

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Bob McDonnell Blows the Racist Dog Whistle Really Really Loud

Think of it a "Black History Month" for proto-Klansmen.  It’s like a Freshman Young Republican hanging a white hooded effigy from the second story dorm room window as a conservative career builder....

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Is the 'Planned Parenthood is Racist' line Racist?

The religious right and its conservative enablers (and that means you, Rick Santorum) are seeking support among blacks for their anti-Planned Parenthood crusade.  They blame Planned Parenthood for high...

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The White Right TAPP Dances Black Truths Out of American History

The right’s strength is its ability to immerse itself in tribal warmth of sexist, racist, homophobic waters, while simply sprinkling the rest of us with their refreshing mists.  And they are...

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Are Ta-Nehisi Coates and Bernie Sanders Both Wrong on Reparations?

In his extraordinary article, “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates stated, "What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal ... a revolution of the American...

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Conservatives Have Earned Their Trump; Liberals Have Not Earned Our Sanders

In 2008, a whole lot of Americans (liberals mostly) got Obama wrong. Instead of a conciliatory centrist, they chose to see a revolutionary warrior.  They saw supporting him not as a political...

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Programmed for Prejudice: Research suggests that we are racists all

Prejudice is common. You don’t have to look far to find it in education, criminal justice, employment, and elsewhere.  For instance:Blacks and whites use drugs at about the same rate, thus adjusting...

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Trump is the Message; America is the Medium

Americans stopped truly regarding ourselves some time ago--that is, looking at both the good and the bad of us.  Instead, we took refuge in the 2D selfie--a posed self-indulgence to show the world our...

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Newly Discovered First Draft of Washington Post Editorial on Hillary...

A recently discovered first draft of the Washington Post Editorial on the State Department report on Hillary Clinton's emails:The department's email technology was archaic. Other staffers also used...

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Yes, Today's Republican Party IS George Will's Party

Being 'shocked, shocked!' that members of his Republican party have nominated a virulent racist to be President of the United States, George Will clutched his pearls, sniffed indignantly, and left the...

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Oh My! The Vapors! How to Tell What's in a Racist's Heart?

There is a new journalistic tic aimed at shielding racists from being called out as such.  It’s the “what’s in his/her heart” disclaimer.  It usually goes something like, “we don’t know if so-and-so is...

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The Pedagogy of Corpses

America learns about race by way of corpses. It took the lynched corpses of thousands to teach America about the horrors of the segregated south. It took the corpses of civil rights workers and a few...

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Black and White - Staring Across a Chasm of American History

In writing a book about racial identity, I aimed my message and my language squarely at an African-American audience. Decidedly blunt, I made no attempts to muffle the rage certain aspects of American...

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A 21st Century Defense of the Age-old Pillars of White Identity

Charles Murray of “The Bell Curve” fame, and “new atheist” turned Muslim-basher, Sam Harris, have leapt to the defense of the racist concept of innate, hereditary, and immutable African-American...

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