My latest op-ed appeared in The Virginian-Pilot Wednesday. Predictably, any mention of race brings out the haters among us - and yesterday's article was no exception. Why people feel the need to email me with their charges that this is all President Obama's fault (really?) is beyond me. Of course, I also get some positive … Continue reading The power of education
Virginia Attorney General - and 2013 gubernatorial candidate - Ken Cuccinelli appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show last night. This came on the heels of O'Reilly having called out the AG a couple of nights before, as he has "reported" on the story of the beating of two Virginian-Pilot reporters. The exchange got testy at times, … Continue reading I guess Cuccinelli is a RINO, too
Guest post by John Fredericks At the expense of being classified by Bill O'Reilly as "pin-head," the normally astute Fox News talk show icon really got this one wrong. And now he won't own up to his own editorial malfeasance. O'Reilly's attempt to spin a yarn about how Virginian-Pilot Editor-in-Chief Denis Finley is part of … Continue reading In Defense of Denis Finley – “The Factor” got it wrong
I don't think it happens very often that opinion writers break the news. They tend to opine on the fact previously presented - or at least that's my general impression. But Tuesday, Virginian-Pilot columnist Michelle Washington broke a story - and it has reverberated around the country, courtesy of a link from Drudge Report. A … Continue reading When an opinion makes the news
Guest post by Rodney Jordan In the City of Norfolk, there are six candidates vying for two city council seats. Given the opportunity to vote for the two best candidates of my choice, I would vote for one candidate who happens to be black and another who happens to be white. But, alas, in Norfolk … Continue reading Vote “Your Race” for City Council in Norfolk?
My latest op-ed, title above, appeared in The Virginian-Pilot Wednesday. In it, I touched on the Trayvon Martin case, the Florida law and how such laws make their way across the country. A much more detailed read on the latter appeared in the printed paper just below my column: this article by Paul Krugman. For … Continue reading From their state capitols to ours
Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald captured in this article some of my thoughts on the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. For every African American, it comes as surely as hard times, setback and tears, that moment when you realize somebody is looking right at you and yet, not seeing you – as if you … Continue reading Pitts on Trayvon Martin: the invisible man
I generally don't call out other bloggers when they make a mistake. But this one was so egregious that I simply couldn't stay silent. Chris over at Mason Conservative has a post with the headline "The Return of Massive Resistance." The topic, as it turns out, is not Massive Resistance at all; rather, he's talking … Continue reading I can’t let this go
An occasional sharing of the email I receive. My column from two weeks ago prompted the following email, which I received yesterday: I am responding to your column on February 8,'12 in The Virginian-Pilot that I consider a very one sided view of a very dark period in Virginian history that the victorious North euphemistically … Continue reading From the mailbag 02/20/12
It is Black History Month.Unfortunately, some of that history may very well be lost as the result of actions by a grandson of slaves, former governor Doug Wilder. If you haven't kept up with what's been happening with the proposed slave museum, this Washington Post article, reprinted in today's Virginian-Pilot, gives a lot of the … Continue reading Wilder’s slavery museum: a mess
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