Election 2016

Election 2016

The race to the White House is shaping up to be a clear referendum in black and white. Though President Barack Obama has faced some criticism from certain members of the African-American religious community for his positions on marriage equality, that has not dampened his support one iota. According to a new NBC/WSJ poll, Obama […]

Election 2016

  Barack Obama recenlty attended the Alfalfa Dinner, a dinner orignally meant to honor Confederate General , Robert E. Lee. The White House has published his remarks from the Dinner. I am seriously glad to be here tonight at the annual Alfalfa dinner. I know that many you are aware that this dinner began almost […]

Election 2016

UPDATED: 11:43 a.m. EDT, Aug. 27, 2018 — Arizona Sen. John McCain died from brain cancer on Saturday. The longtime lawmaker and former prisoner of war during his time serving in the Vietnam War was widely remembered for his presidential candidacy against Barack Obama in 2008, when the senator famously told a woman attending a […]

Election 2016

Back in 2008, as John McCain accepts the Republican party nod for president, Sen. Barack Obama appeared on The O'Reilly Factor.

Election 2016

I readCornel West‘s “Race Matters” with more of a sense of obligation than any real interest. The book’s been out since ’94 and I only got around to reading it this year, so that should tell you something. See, I think the “Black people as a scientific study” books have only been done right once: […]

Election 2016

Barack Obama stepped triumphantly into history Wednesday night, the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination, as thousands of Democrats transformed their convention hall into a joyful, shouting celebration. The son of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother is now one victory from becoming president of a nation where, […]

Election 2016

“Since March, when I was accused of being racist for a statement I made about the influence of blacks on Obama’s historic campaign, people have been stopping me to express a common sentiment: If you’re white you can’t open your mouth without being accused of being racist. They see Obama’s playing the race card throughout […]