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When There's No Winning Strategy1 comment

Alan wrote 6 days ago: Here it is, late May, and Team Obama and Team Romney have decided the November election will be a pl … more →

Tags: Conservative Framing Devices, Conservative Values, Race and America, The Conservative-Liberal Divide, The Culture Wars, Michael Lind, Mitt Romney, BAIN CAPITAL, November Plebiscite on Private Equity Firms

Not the Wright Stuff

Alan wrote 1 week ago: This was supposed to be the Leona Helmsley election. You remember her – fabulously wealthy, and born … more →

Tags: Jeremiah Wright, Citizens United Ruling, Mitt Romney, Superpacs, Leona Helmsley, The Leona Helmsley Election, only the little people pay taxes, job-creators, To Protect and Serve the Rich

"We need a leader who is biblically based"

Mrs Spookymuffin wrote 2 weeks ago: So the Reverend Ralph Martino just got done blabbing his word-flap on CNN about this big shitstorm w … more →

Tags: Writing #2, Skepticism, Socio-Political, Philosophy, School, Election 2012?, Atheism, Christianity, News

It's All About Color, but it's Not About Race 3 comments

jimedsall wrote 3 weeks ago: by Jim Edsall According to recent polls, half of the American people believe that Barack Obama shoul … more →

Tags: Energy, Debt and Taxes, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Care

Passing Down Perspective: A Defense of L. Farrakhan, Rev. Wright & All My Teachers

Brittney Bullock wrote 1 month ago: A recent discussion hosted by Fox News Channel caught my attention on the subject of the Honorable L … more →

Tags: Louis Farrakhan, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, racism, Black American History, African-American History, Fox News Channel, Politics, Racial Politics

Trayvon and The Democrats

Dale Steinacker wrote 1 month ago: Democrats and some media (MSNBC, for example) are rushing into the Trayvon Martin case as if it is a … more →

Tags: Elections, Democrats, George Zimmerman, national election, Suburbs, Trayvon Martin, urban democrats

@FearOfaBlackRep | Fear of a Black Republican1 comment

ClayCoMOPolitics wrote 2 months ago: On Sunday 3/25 I attended “Blacks, Republicans, and Race” at William Jewel College. The … more →

Tags: Bev Randles, Bill Randles, Black History, Blue Springs, Missouri, Civil War, Clay County Caucus, Clay County Republicans, Coretta Scott King, Democrats

The True-Man Doctrine5 comments

Alan wrote 2 months ago: Americans like their guns, and seem to like the idea that those guns frighten others, as that makes … more →

Tags: Race and America, Racism Lives On, race war, Race and Tolerance, racial profiling, Trayvon Martin, Newt Gingrich, Blame-the-Victim Defense, Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin

Lower Your Racial Expectations

Starlette McNeill wrote 2 months ago: My day began at 5:15 a.m. though I set my alarm for 6 a.m. My attire had been preselected, my bag pa … more →

Tags: Race, President Barack Obama, Trayvon Martin, White House African American Clergy Forum, arne duncan, Valerie Jarrett, Lisa Jackson, joshua dubois, Paul Monteiro

Why Is the Right So Nasty?

John Pennington, San Francisco wrote 2 months ago: Far from being properly entombed, the undead conservative campaign against women has risen from its … more →

Tags: Justice and democracy, Conservative ideology, Human Rights, Immigration, The Value of Education, intolerance

Jail Be All Full Up

John Pennington, San Francisco wrote 3 months ago: Find a picture of typical prison accommodations, and you will likely see a gymnasium-sized room with … more →

Tags: Crime, decline of violence, class warfare

Reporting Live For Race1 comment

Starlette McNeill wrote 4 months ago: Standing in my bathroom, looking into the mirror as if before millions of viewers and holding a hair … more →

Tags: Race and Culture, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Governor Jan Brewer, word problems use slavery examples, the slave game in Lilburn, Georgia, The Obamas by Jodi Kantors, The Racial Contract

Winning With Racism By Laura Rector

Starlette McNeill wrote 4 months ago: Winning With Racism, an Associated Baptist Press article by Laura Rector, examines the racialized la … more →

Tags: Race and Christian Identity, Race and Christian Witness, race and the 2012 presidential campaign, Republicans and the race card, Laura Rector, Winning with Racism, President Barack Obama and the Republican Party

Confused Alarms of Struggle and Flight

Alan wrote 4 months ago: Down in Kent you’ll find the port city of Dover and those famous white cliffs – they’re  … more →

Tags: Race and America, Racial Dogwhistles, Newt Gingrich, Racial Dog Whistles, Lee Atwater, Republican Racism, Republican Southern Strategy, Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold

herbert hoover, MLK, and the legacy of race and partisanship in america

nick wrote 4 months ago: History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not th … more →

Tags: MLK, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Herbert Hoover

Gingrich says he would visit NAACP. Then why has he turned down all of their previous invites?

glciii wrote 4 months ago: Gingrich says he would visit NAACP. Then why has he turned down all of their previous invites? Durin … more →

Tags: African-American, Politics, racism, NAACP, Conservatives, Republican, Opinion, Political opinion, Newt Gingrich

Odd Man Out

Alan wrote 5 months ago: Okay, we weren’t supposed to think about Ron Paul – he’s always running for president an … more →

Tags: Ron Paul, Republican Attraction to the Extreme, The Republican Field, andrew sullivan, Ayn Rand, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sullivan Endorses Ron Paul, Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters, Political Comfort Food

Welfare, Race, and Politics

John Pennington, San Francisco wrote 6 months ago: Much of the political conflict between conservatives and liberals in the US today is really a confli … more →

Tags: Justice and democracy, social wellbeing, Conservative ideology, racial resentment, Race and Achievement

Necessary Differentiations

Alan wrote 6 months ago: It’s a matter of discrimination, of making differentiations, of seeing that everything is not … more →

Tags: Religion and Politics, Herman Cain, ann coulter, The Religious Right, Herman Cain Blacker Than Obama, Our Blacks Are Better Than Their Blacks, Bush Didn't Know About Sunnis and Shiites, Amy Sullivan, Two Religious Rights


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