From the comments this morning:
I wouldn’t vote for Obama because I don’t trust him. That doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t vote for another person of African descent. For example, I would have no problem with Condi Rice.
So, what about the 95% of black voters who check the Obama box? It’s obvious that they are voting […]
Americans don’t see the world in Black and White anymore. Really! We’ve moved past “all that”.
Bullcr@p.
I’ve read ad nauseum about Obama’s “problem with blue collar Democrats” — the preferred euphemism for bigoted whites who won’t vote for a black person under any circumstances.
Obama’s “problem” has been exploited, analyzed, laughed at, shrugged off, and ultimately avoided […]
Via the Houston Chronicle, it seems a graduating Senior from a high school in Richmond, TX, is suing UT-Austin. Her suit alleges that she, as a white person, was denied admission to UT due to race-based admission policies.
The complaint, filed yesterday in Austin (.pdf here), states that plaintiff Abigail Fisher is graduating in the […]
As a general rule, I agree with how Houston’s only local newspaper handles race and ethnicity in its reporting. But every now and again, they’re flat-out wrong.
Like this time.
Thanks to Jazz Shaw’s excellent post at TMV, I finally understand the scandalous Bowling-Gate. Turns out that there are millions of Americans who define masculinity in terms of bowling. Hunh. Who knew?
We want our president to be a REAL man. Even if it turns out to be Hillary Clinton. (And on […]
Some years ago, while researching something else entirely, I stumbled across the accusations that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr was a Communist. Strange that I’d never heard that, in retrospect. Then again, I didn’t hear much about J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI while growing up, either.
Viewed through an historical lens, though, […]
Late last week, Newt Gingrich delivered a curious, under-reported speech at the American Enterprise Institute. He called it, “Answering the Obama Challenge”, and it was framed as a response to Barack Obama’s historic speech about race. (Video and transcript available here. My emphasis.)
Segregation was a horrible institution imposed by force by the […]