Arizona’s New Fugitive Slave Law
I am disgusted with the Arizona legislature’s reprise of fugitive slave laws allowing authorities to harass/detain anyone who looks like s/he might be an undocumented immigrant. I talked about it with...
View Article“My Kingdom for a Sound Bite!”
It’s good to see more journalists and even adversarial pundits publicly acknowledge Obama’s pole numbers as a weakness in perception not in accomplishment–albeit a year late! Hopefully his top brass...
View ArticleKudos to Ratigan!
Not only is Dylan Ratigan honestly, courageously wrestling with the most historically intractable issue in America, but he even gave up the lead chair! Share Tweet news and...
View ArticleOn Religious Liberty and the American Experiment…
I agree with almost everything Joan Walsh says on Hardball today, and almost only the last thing proffered by the other two. Islam did not attack America on 9-11; terrorists did. Peace-loving,...
View ArticleObama the Muslim!
This foolishness of Obama being a secret Muslim, like the hoopla over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” only serves to take perfectly innocuous (yea even noble) ideals of faith and defaming them to...
View ArticleHow ‘Bout dem 1st Amendment Rights!
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View Article“Go F@#k Yourself.”
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View ArticleTRAYVON: may your death not be in vain
______________________________ White People, You Will Never Look Suspicious Like Trayvon Martin! by Michael Skolnik (interviewed about this post) I will never look suspicious to you. Even if I have a...
View Article“Not Really Speaking to Us or About Us”
Oklahoma is an intensely conservative state. “Conservative” means “resistant to change,” which is all well and good when ‘what is’ works for all persons of noble intent. The problem is that so much in...
View Article10% More of What the Election Said to Me
Paul West of the Los Angeles Times nailed what I believe won Obama the race in 2012: “The president built his winning coalition on a series of election-year initiatives and issue differences with...
View ArticleProportional My Ass!
I know I am Johnny-come-late to both of these news stories, but I have to say something. first, watch this video… Even if, as the police want to say, Eric Garner were resisting arrest (which I don’t...
View ArticleYoung Black Men Rally to Protect Stores from Looters
Even after the press conference shenanigans of the police earlier on friday when everybody in support of the brown family got mad, YOUNG BLACK MALE PROTESTORS RALLIED TO PROTECT THE STORES from the...
View ArticleWhy Unrest Persists in Ferguson
The answer to why people are still in the street in Ferguson is simple: An entire week after Ferguson, MO, police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot the unarmed black male teenager Michael Brown who...
View ArticleFerguson Needed a Black Patsy
Captain Ron Johnson is being scapegoated! Pay attention to the racial storyline: Saturday noon, 8/9 – Unarmed black teenager is killed in broad daylight by a white police officer. Saturday afternoon,...
View ArticleWho We Get Our News From Matters
For my money, Melissa Harris-Perry offers the most culturally and intellectually incisive reporting and analysis on television, as Michel Martin did for radio. (Too bad NPR eliminated Martin’s show,...
View ArticleThis Isn’t Just about Cops… Or even Primarily about Them
I agree with everything Chris Matthews says in both these brief segments, and commend him for using his platform to say it. In saying that, what do we do with the truth of John Oliver’s commentary as...
View ArticleStark Racial Divisions in Reactions to Ferguson Police Shooting
It is not often that the hypocrisy of the dominant stories and scripts of our country line up so perfectly for all to see the racial concerns that drive black protest. However, in this one moment it...
View ArticleTell It Like It Is!
I have mad respect for Jesse Williams and John Legend who risk their brand for the cause of human dignity! I have a high school partner, Attorney Shawn McCullers, who went with colleagues to...
View ArticleBlack Rage & Supporting the Community Supporting You
Big ups to Lauren Hill and Talib Kwali for taking a stand for human dignity! Full interview with Kwali Source photo of Kwali Full lyric by Hill Source photo of Hill Share Tweet news and...
View ArticleListen Without Prejudice, That Noise Is Dead
Shout out to Orlando Jones and Jesse Williams (yet again) for putting human dignity ahead of the maintenance of their celebrity brands. #brandhumandignity if you have examples of others who have done...
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