The Zimmerman trial exposed what many are unwilling to acknowledge: there remains a deep racial divide in this country. The Washington Post released poll numbers yesterday on the verdict, but the issue is really deeper: In the Post-ABC News poll, 86 percent of African Americans say blacks and other minorities do not get equal treatment … Continue reading Two Americas
Two videos on separate topics that caught my eye this morning. Each are well worth your time. The first deals with the Cheerios commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VifdBFp5pnw The second deals with economics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IuqGrz-Y_Lc My takeaways from the videos: Racism is learned behavior. This is not, of course, a new revelation for me. It is something, though, that … Continue reading Two must watch videos
It's not often that I find myself in agreement with Joe Scarborough but his opinion on the George Zimmerman case was pretty close to my own reaction. Shortly after the verdict was announced, I had to turn off the TV and shut down Twitter and Facebook. I just couldn't take it. Most of what I … Continue reading The verdict
My latest op-ed, title above, appeared in The Virginian-Pilot Wednesday. While there has been a lot of hand-wringing over the Supreme Court's ruling last week, in which the court threw out the coverage formula in section 4, which affects the preclearance rules of section 5, little attention has been paid to the other sections of … Continue reading ICYMI: After the ruling on the Voting Rights Act
This has to be one of the best videos making the rounds that I've seen in a long time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3KyvlMJefR4
Today marks the 45th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights icon, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As I was perusing my blog for earlier posts, I ran across this one I wrote five years ago. Truth be told, not much has happened in the interim, except the country has elected a black … Continue reading MLK Jr: 45 years later
... Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. After Congress voted for the 13th Amendment in January 1864, the measure went to the states for ratification. On Dec. 6, 1864, the amendment received the two-thirds’ vote it needed when Georgia became the 27th state to ratify it. States that rejected the measure included … Continue reading Nearly 150 years later ….
Many people do not know who the abolitionists were or what they did. They were a small group of people who were determined to eliminate slavery from the United States. PBS is presenting a 3 part mini series starting tonight based on two of them: Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. These two men came … Continue reading The few that changed all our lives.- The Abolitionist
My friend, Coby Dillard, has posted a rather lengthy screed on his Facebook page about the lack of Republican outreach to the black community. My response to him is far too long to post there, even if I wanted to. So here it is. I believe Coby missed a much larger point in his missive, … Continue reading Race and voting
"Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican." That is a true statement. But he wasn't alone. A lot of blacks were Republicans, not a surprise considering it was President Abraham Lincoln who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the states of the Confederacy where Union forces were not in control, including areas in … Continue reading The missing link
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