A Political Season

Among the political rhetoric which has become obscenely overused by white conservatives (and all too often parroted by black conservatives),...

All I can do is shake my head.  Black and white folks alike who you think could use their common sense to navigate the issue of race just d...

Apologies to Ntzotke Shange . I've been a Dr. Laura fan for years. I started listening to her show on WJR when I lived in Detroit.  I r...

There is a whole network of sites that cater to a group of people in our society who are quite racist in the sense that they forthrightly ar...

The blog Mirror on America observes the GOP attack on Kagan using Justice Marshal as their foil and calls it racist .   For the record, I do...

That's the way fellow blogger Cobb frames his question about the Tea Party member pictured below.  I'd like to frame the question d...

Hat Tip Booker Rising University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor and head of the National Republican African American Caucus, Dr. Ho...

Hat tip Shortform blog : On race relations: 58 % of Americans thought Obama would change race relations before his inauguration 41 % o...

Hat tip Booker Rising This is a profoundly disgusting comment of which Pat Robertson should be ashamed. 

Blacks weigh in on Harry Reid's racial comments / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com So Washington is abuzz with the latest...

If you go to Wickipedia, it explains "race realism" as the claim that races are real rather than social constructs, and that racia...

A member of my FB circle posted this PSA. I'm all for more accurate, non distorted readings of history. If you don't understand th...

A recurring theme out there in the political atmosphere about Barack Obama becoming president is the idea that we live in a PC, guilt addled...

Way back in March of 2007,  fellow blogger Villager of Electronic Village posted on the hate site Detroit Is Crap.  Interestingly enough, t...

The NAACP national leadership is majoring in the minors and providing further validation for the viewpoint that they have lost their sense ...

Color of Change has entered the fray in the Oscar Grant killings in California, with the following email to its members: On New Year's E...

A second, somewhat clearer look at the shooting and some sense of the officer reaction: When it comes to the topic of how race impacts decis...

Here is what is very troubling, very disturbing to me. The shouted racial slur heard on the tape when you listen to it is pretty clear. I d...

Hat tip Dirty Harry's Place This was a fun and well delivered piece of rhetoric for the McCain/Palin ticket. Harry said he would vote f...

We have over 90 days left to the general election and I'm already worn out with the racially coded criticism of Obama as "arrogant...