The first nasty inkling that even the King of Pop can stir the racial divide came with the Mt. Everest size list of postings on blogs, chat rooms, and websites the week after the death of icon Michael Jackson. The comments ranged from mild rebuke to pure venom in which...

Michael Jackson got his final revenge on his alleged, tyrannical, abusive, and unfeeling father, Joe. He didn't leave him a red cent in his will. That of course is the party line about Joe Jackson. Few fathers have ever been more reviled. Joe was slammed hard for laughing and joking...

Dr. Conrad Murray can't win. The Michael Jackson family through their surrogate Reverend Jesse Jackson hints that the doctor may have done something terribly wrong in the death of Jackson. Jackson fans were brutal. On the website vitals.com that rates physicians there were more than 100 comments (as of Saturday)....

Near the end of the first week of Michael Jackson's infamous child molestation trial in 2005, a large group of African-American community activists and leaders gathered at a community center in Los Angeles to talk about Jackson, the trial and whether he was a target because he was a rich,...

Just as President Obama's second quarter nears its end, the predictable happened. The gloat over his reported light dip in popularity has begun with a vengeance. The headlines range from the giddy and inflammatory, "The Official Honeymoon Ends," to the more subdued, "Is this really the end?" No other president...

Even by the nut case standard of the assorted pack of neo-Nazi unreconstructed Klan members, Aryan Nation haters, and the legion of loose screw religious cranks and loonies, the Reverend Wiley S. Drake's public prayer for the death of President Obama stretched far past the outer limit of credulity. The...

It was almost Sarah Palin, then it was talk show gasser Rush Limbaugh, and now it's the Fox Network. President Obama's seemingly obsessive need to devote one second of time and mention to attacking his arch enemies reminds me of those cop and robber movies where the bad guys pull...

"I will tell you that I don't believe in gay marriage... I believe in civil unions but it should not be called marriage."

Then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said that during a campaign stop in Nelsonville, Ohio a day before the Super II Tuesday primary in March 2008. The...

The greatest offense was not South Carolina GOP honcho Rusty DePass's Facebook crack that compared a gorilla that escaped from Columbia, South Carolina Riverbanks Zoo to Michelle Obama's ancestors. The gorilla and African-Americans analogy has long been standard fare in racial slurs of blacks. The only wrinkle to that is...

There were two things wrong with the good Reverend Jeremiah Wrights's grouse that "them Jews are keeping me from Obama." Oops, I mean the Zionists, not Jews. That was Wright's nimble effort to take some heat off him for the silly crack. One was that he said it. The other...

Here's the hate rap sheet on James Wenneker von Brunn. In 1981, he loudly boasted that he'd take Fed Reserve members hostage, a boast he tried to act on. In 1999, he penned a book with the inflammatory, violence inciting title, "Kill the Best Gentiles." In 2003, he sketched a...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich backpedaled from his reverse racist slur of Supreme Court designate Sonia Sotomayor as a racist. A defiant Rush Limbaugh didn't. There's a reason. For more than four decades the reverse racist tag has been the most potent weapon in the arsenal of ultra-conservatives and closet...

President Obama spoke forcefully, passionately and correctly at the Buchenwald death camp on the evil of the Holocaust. He implored nations to confront those who would deny its horror. Obama should do the same about the evil of slavery. There are two arguments against him doing that though. Then-presidential candidate...

The only thing wrong with New York Congressman Charles Rangel's quip that President Obama had better bring his ID to East Harlem is that he limited it to East Harlem. A President Obama in his trademark baseball cap, sometimes hip clothes, and sneakers, sans White House entourage and limo, strolling...

The gay activists that picketed President Obama at a recent fundraising event in Los Angeles for allegedly not doing and saying enough to beat back Proposition 8 must have dropped in from another planet. Obama remains wildly popular among African-American voters and an attack on him for being less than...

Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan and the conservative judicial hit team wasted no time in branding Judge Sonia Sotomayor a combination activist judge and closet bigot who will lord her gender and ethnicity over white males, and savage them in her decisions and rulings on the Supreme Court. They wave Sotomoyar's...

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell obviously didn't read the speech that Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele gave to the state GOP chairmen the week before he knocked Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, and the GOP hardcore on Face the Nation. Powell said as he has time and again that...

The painful truth in former Vice President Dick Cheney's spat with President Obama is that there are still far too many places where Obama's policy resembles Bush policy on the terrorism war. In the waning days of his last term Bush scrapped some of the worst of the legally and...

The most telling thing about President Obama's response to Army General Ray Odierno's impassioned plea to him not to release the eye popping photos showing torture of Iraqi prisoners was not that he gave in to the general. It was what he said to the general when he made the...

Farrah Fawcett watched her personal, moving and life affirming story on ABC-TV. Millions applauded her for her valiant fight against cancer and her inspirational message to fight on to many others who wage their own private medical battle against the dread disease. Lawanda Jackson was not one of them who...