There is no other way to say this but to put it all on the table. Some white people have simply lost their minds because they are besides themselves trying to figure out how in the world they slipped up and let an African-American man in the White House, as...

In this supposed "Post Racial" age of Obama you would think that the silly concept of race would simply ease its way into obscurity. And I am not even talking about the stupidity of racism that has in some ways gotten worse as so many on the far right have...

The mainstream media is really a strange and funny thing. Even after all these years of doing what it does, it still can't decide if it wants to be a source of facts, a go-to place for what's happening, a tabloid, a gossip source, a place to go for all...

"We all have our own Tibets."

That was a quote and a very important conclusion that grew out of several days of outward and inner struggle of a group of very lofty thinkers, who initially focused their energies on trying to resolve the China and Tibet "problem" while gathered at...

I am not at all surprised by the California Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Proposition 8 passage, the statewide referendum that essentially banned gay marriage in California. I don't blame the court. As dismayed as I am by the passage of Prop 8, I had no doubt there was...

There is in Hollywood a great relief now that the nearly 10 months long threatened or potential strike by the Screen Actors Guild is seemingly coming to an end with ballots going out to the rank and file later in May.

Most people expect the tentative agreement between SAG...

What a fantastic few days this has been. I am still on a natural high as John Denver would say. Now that President-Elect Obama has gloriously become President Obama we can finally turn our attention to the real work of getting this country back on track and into that famously...

Special Correspondent Earnest Harris writes this occasional "Code Words" column for OffTheBus.

John McCain is a coward AND a racist.

There is no other way to put this, nor do I care to. Most people, including many of the mainstream media talking heads, are bending over backwards to find...

Special Correspondent Earnest Harris writes this occasional "Code Words" column for OffTheBus.

As was predicted by many and as the harsh language coming from the McCain-Palin campaign this week has made clear, with just one month to go in this election and with all the momentum shifting steadily in...

"Hey, nigger, why don't you go back to the cotton field where you belong?"

"They're waiting for you in the jungles, black boy!"

"Hey snowflake, which one of those white boys' wives are you dating tonight?"

"We don't want you here, nigger."

"Go back to the bushes!"

According to an...

I have to tell you I am just about done with the mainstream media. The way they have been absolutely gushing over Sarah Palin's ability to read a speech is absolutely amazing to me. This after a few days when it looked like they might actually do their jobs and...

Barack Obama didn't outshine John McCain this weekend the way many anticipated he might at the "Faith Forum" held by influential evengelical leader Rick Warren. McCain, no religious candidate by any measure, came out running on the matter of "confronting evil."

It was a missed opportunity for Obama, who has...

It is debatable whether or not in the long run the McCain campaign's latest series of ads questioning Sen. Obama's "celebrity" or popularity will make a difference in November. But what is clear is that the Republicans have decided that their newest tack is to focus their energies on belittling...

The latest line of reasoning to come from the Right, seems to be simply to attack Obama and his supporters for being simply stupid.

Michelle Malkin, in her syndicated column, posted yesterday at The New York Post's website, wrote this:

Obama and his paparazzi are banking on his cult...

I'm about at the end of my rope as it relates to giving certain people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to how they respond to and treat Barack Obama and his family.

By "certain people" I am referring to the mainstream media (MSM) and to be...

In the wake of the flap that followed the New Yorker's intended satirical cover art last week, a shock anti-Obama t-shirt has made news. The shirt raises questions about whether the provocative message it bears is ironic or just plain ugly. The designer makes no bones, however, about his intent.

Shouldn't blacks be fair game for political satire? At first blush, this seems like an easy question to answer. Shouldn't we, and other minorities, be treated equally? Isn't that what the struggle for equality has been all about?

Well, the answer is not so easy and clear-cut. Actually I...

Last week, blogs lit up over cartoon depictions of Obama. The New Yorker story with the Obamas as a terrorist First Couple got a lot of headlines, but the cartoon at the heart of another low-heat controversy recalled the scandal in Japan two weeks ago that saw mobile phone...

This presidential election has already generated unprecedented interest overseas, and if this week's events in Japan are any sign, that interest will only increase, along with all of the cultural baggage, misunderstandings and mashed up references that come with it.

The ethnic tensions stretched taut by the...

To engage with the news since Senator Obama became the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party you would think that the member of the Obama family pitted against John McCain was Michelle. It is certainly not surprising that the wife of the presumptive nominee would or should be fair game...