Reasonable Americans should have no problem recognizing that this unprecedented wave of abusive remarks towards the Obamas derives not from disagreement, but from utter disrespect.
Leslie Reece Schichtel | Posted 04.09.2012
Americans seem to be still hung up on the idea that skin color, and even gender, is a better way to define someone, rather than defining them by their achievements, potential, intelligence or moral character
Keli Goff | Posted 11.26.2011
There are plenty of downsides to racism, but the biggest is perhaps the fear and paranoia it instills in those who have experienced it or seen it up close and personal.
Michael Hanchard | Posted 10.19.2011
We have been both astonished and frustrated over the years by the isolationist cast of much commentary about the black experience in the United States and racism more generally as an international, rather than national phenomenon.
Chris Benson | Posted 05.25.2011
The following is an open letter to students enrolled in my Hate Crimes course during the fall semester, 2010. 10 January 2011 Dear Students: Thank ...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011
In the wake of the RNC's new sex club scandal, many rueful conservatives are calling for Steele's head, all too happy to throw him under the bus and effectively reverse a decision that no one liked in the first place.
Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's bend over backwards to be fair to Newt Gingrich. He contends his comments were misconstrued.
Cocoa Popps | Posted 05.25.2011
Maybe it's just that ignorance gets more spotlight, but lately too many people think it's okay to blatantly disrespect black people.
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011
Shortly after signing SB 1070, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed HB2281 targeting Ethnic Studies programs, even after the measure was condemned in a ...
Robert Perkinson | Posted 05.25.2011
My grandfather, Henry Fly, lived from the Age of Lynching to the Age of Obama.
Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011
Turner has long been notorious for making anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, white supremacist remarks, but says that the person you hear [or hear about] on radio is not real life.
The Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
A two-year-old video widely seen as racist is sparking debate in Africa again after an academic called for the students involved to be allowed to resu...
Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011
George Will once described the game as a "mistake" combining the two worst aspects of the 20th Century: organized violence and committee meetings. He might as well have added "equal opportunity."
Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011
Don't tell me that nontroversy doesn't matter. With nearly as many Americans approving of Palin as Obama, nontroversy really, really matters.
Robert Slayton | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama is a lot of things that are scary, and only one of these is the fact that he is black.
Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS -- September 22 -- The heated debate over healthcare reform continued last week in an unlikely place, the cobblestone courtyard of an apartmen...
Carol M. Swain | Posted 05.25.2011
Hadassah's is one of many such e-mails I have received over the years from whites who confess to having been raised in liberal democratic- homes, but who are now flirting with white nationalism.
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 05.25.2011
Good-minded people who see a need to teach tolerance and engage in civil discussion are cowed into submission by the shouters.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The GOP has slapped Obama with a socialist tag. That sets off a Pavlovian drool; reason quickly goes out the window and the red flags run up the mental flagpoles of countless Americans.
Sheila Shayon | Posted 05.25.2011
If the Relationship Age, coupled with the power of the media, is seized by leaders with intent to transform, teachable moments will become an ongoing part of our national curriculum.
Elicia Berger | Posted 11.17.2011
Walking around Upper Manhattan, I hear a man's voice shout, "Tingy wei wei! Me want to drink tea!" I am stunned into silence, and keep walking. It is only a half a block later when I can even think. "Seriously?!"
Sam Greenfield | Posted 05.25.2011
The Latino vote should be the exclusive property of the Republican party. Religiously faithful,socially conservative, family oriented,they are a poste...
Renita Weems | Posted 05.25.2011
Evidently, Rick Warren doesn't know that black preachers talk, that many of us are friends, and that a letter from him would generate buzz enough for us to share and compare notes.
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011
There is something very ugly happening out there in the hinterlands these days--a brewing cauldron of racist anger being directed at President-elect Barack Obama.
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011
Sources that I have spoken to in Alaska acknowledge that there is a pervasive "atmosphere of racism" throughout pockets of state government. Palin's failure to condemn the emails is troubling -- but not out of character.
Jess Coleman | Posted 04.17.2012