Think of it a “Black History Month” for proto-Klansmen.  It’s like a Freshman Young Republican hanging a white hooded effigy from the second story dorm room window as a conservative career builder.  

Let’s consider: We are regularly invited to “celebrate”… Read full post »

Progressives bemoan Obama’s failure to fulfill his perceived promise to challenge the status quo.  During the historic 2008 presidential campaign, Americans both black and white read his book, saw his skin, heard his occasionally preacherly speech cadences married to an academically traine… Read full post »

Martin Luther King was a great man who led one of the defining movements of the 20^th century—for America, and by example, for the world.  However, I believe he was fundamentally wrong in the conclusions to which his Christian moralist background led him throughout most of his crusade. … Read full post »

In his column on the overwhelming black vote (black female vote in particular) in favor of California’s Proposition 8, the New York Times’ Charles Blow noted two main trends: a particularly irrational form of religiosity; and black, female self-pity and resentment. … Read full post »

American governance got stuck somewhere mid-20^th century.  It ambled along, hit a bog and kept on marching, lifting one leg high in a plucky arm-swinging gate and planting the next.  We felt the heart’s determined thump, saw the mud splashing madly and never realized that, collectivel… Read full post »

President Obama.  God that sounds weird.  I certainly never thought I’d hear the like in my day.  I had written that I was deeply worried about Obama’s chances of winning against a half-sane white Republican in a general election.  Luckily, the Republicans didn’t… Read full post »

Before: Oh God.  An hour and a half of this.  I’d rather claw my own eyes out with spork.  I know who I’m voting for. If John McCain saved six black babies from drowning tomorrow, I wouldn’t vote for him.  I’m already pissed.  PBS’s Ray Suarez ju… Read full post »

Andrew Sullivan, squawking the name “Milton Friedman” as if it magically disappeared the ridiculous, sat on Bill Maher’s show blaming the financial crisis on American consumers who bought houses they couldn’t afford.  He was arguing against Naomi Klein’s thesis that… Read full post »

Why isn’t the Obama camp attacking Republicans for crying “sexism”  and Palin for playing the victim?  Why isn’t every Dem surrogate out there mocking Palin and her defenders with the same condescension with which Republicans and Obama surrogates mocked Hillary Clint… Read full post »

Fifty percent of this year’s Republican playbook is typically divisive Rove Culture Wars.  The other fifty percent is all about racial signs and symbols. Georgia GOP Congressan Lynn Westmoreland finally came right out and called Obama “uppity,” kindly leaving the inevitable to… Read full post »

At some point, Barack Obama had to decide if he wanted to be President, or a prophet; if he wanted to lead a government, or a Movement.   In the primary, the whole "Movement" schtick worked.  He was the insurgent, he had an front-running opponent he could vilify, and the issue (Iraq)… Read full post »

After a couple of slave rebellions in the early 19th century, American Christianity shifted irrevocably from a catalyst for slave liberation, to an additional shackle securing black men in bondage to white ones.  After the Vesey and Prosser rebellions, whites largely oversaw slave worship to ens… Read full post »