Racism

Hillary Said It Wrong But Got It Right About Hard Working, White Americans

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Angry White Male, Gop, Barack Obama, Cultural Differences Robert Dole, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Racism, West Virginia Primary, George Bush, Democrats, Democratic Presidential Primaries, Blue Collar Whites, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics News

The supreme test for Obama is to prove that Hillary said it wrong and got it wrong.

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Killing the Dream

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Democratic Congress, Housing Market, Racism, Homeowners, Chris Dodd, Politics News

The Bush administration and its amen corner in the Senate are trying to leave its stamp on affordable housing by killing off one of the most successful experiments in low income homeownership in a generation.

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The Media's Latino Rules

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Rush, Racism, Media, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Latino, Media Bias, Media News

My reaction to Rush Limbaugh's comment that he mistook Mayor Villaraigosa as a "shoeshine guy" is not based on partisanship. It is based on my being tired of the media's Latino rules.

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Obama Navigates the Home Stretch

Howard Winant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Presidential Elections, Racism, Race, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Politics News

Can Obama represent both class resentment and racial tolerance? America's future depends on the answer to that question.

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40 Years Ago Today, The Police Tried to Kill Me At Columbia University

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: President, Demonstrations, Nyc, Nyt, Kennedy, Rfk, Mcgovern, '68, New York, Columbia University, Racism, 1968, Harlem, Martin Luther King, Prague Spring, Vietnam War, Mccarthy, Civil Rights Movement, Students, New York Times, Protestors, Grayson Kirk, Humphrey, Politics News

The real legacy of the 1968 turmoil was the idea that young people and students had the obligation to challenge authority, to question assumptions... and could succeed.

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My Father's Eyes: Sean Bell & Me

Terrance Heath | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Police Brutality, Racism, Sean Bell, Sean Bell Verdict, Racial Prejudice, Race, Racial Profiling, Shawn Bell, Politics News

As a black man raising two black sons, I wonder just how I will prepare them for the reality of what they will likely face without catalyzing what I know is an inevitable loss of innocence.

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Obama vs. Rev. Wright: The Wrongness of Righteousness

Terry Real | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Perhaps Wright felt that Obama did not stand up for him enough and this is payback, or perhaps he feels that his cause is so righteous that devil damn the consequences.

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The Times Gets Revenge on Jeremiah Wright

Warren Goldstein | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Racism, New York Times, Alessandra Stanley, Trinity United Church of Christ, United Church of Christ, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Reverend Wright, Media Coverage of Jeremiah Wright, Prophetic Preaching, Jodi Kantor, African-American Preaching, African-American Church, Media News

A television critic, of all people, gets to carry the heavy political water at the Times these days. It makes you wonder what Kool-Aid the editors are knocking back.

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Merely Prejudiced

Jim Duffy | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Racism, Racism, Barack Obama Race, Barack Obama, Middle Class Voters, Working Class Voters, Politics News

The people that will to decide the election in the fall is a group I call the Merely Prejudiced. They're not pathological in their hatred, but they aren't entirely comfortable with black people or culture.

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Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nebraska, George W. Bush, Colorado, General Election, Media, Electoral College, China, South Dakota, Nevada, Virginia, Ohio, Superdelegates, West, Racism, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Bill Clinton, Islam, Alaska, John McCain, Rural Voters, Presidential Election, Clintons, Texas, Pennsylvania, Democrats, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Idaho, Japan, Midwest, Religion, Urban Issues, Muslims, South, Iowa, San Francisco, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Indiana, White Voters, Politics News

Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.

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The Education of Jeremiah Wright

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Black Radicalism, Barack Obama, Black Church, Afrocentrism, Bill Moyers, Black Religion, Racism, Jeremiah Wright, Race, Democrats, Trinity United Church, John McCain, Politics News

Wright has retired from the pulpit at Trinity United. However, his alleged out of context and distorted remarks won't be retired. They're too much of a political goldmine and that's something that Wright got a fresh education on.

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Cops' Acquittal in Sean Bell Verdict Complicates Things for Obama

Roberto Lovato | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: McCain and Racism, Sean Bell, Primaries and Race, Police Brutality, White Fear, Racism, Obama, Clinton and Racism, White Fear and Elections, Post-Southern Strategy, Race, Jeremiah Wright, Obama and Sean Bell, Sean Bell Verdict, Acquitted, Shawn Bell, Bell Verdict, Politics News

With his candidacy already mired with racial issues, Obama will have to maneuver about how to speak out on the most egregious example of institutional racism and police brutality since Rodney King.

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What You Might Not Know About the Constitution

Mike Stark | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Constitution, Race, Law, Activism, Toni Morrison, Constitutional Amendment, Slavery, Racism, Obama Race, OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Politics News

Our nation's charter -- The Constitution of the United States -- to this day contains unstricken text that established the legal framework for slavery.

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Why So Many Iraqis Hate Us? Try "Towel Head" On for Size

Phillip Martin | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Video, U.S. Military, Racial Prejudice, Bbc, Middle-East, PRI's the World, Donald Rumsfeld, Racism, Baghdad, BBC Poll, Winter Soldier, Iraq, Southern Poverty Law Center, Klan, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

An added barrier to getting to know Iraqis beyond skin color and stereo-types is the wholesale ignorance of Islam.

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An Outrageous Education

Donna Foote | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Public Education Reform, Racism, Race and Education, Teach for America, Education Reform, Race, Watts, Locke High School, Politics News

Walking through the prison-like gates of Locke High School in Watts last week it was hard not to summon up Dante's admonition to those on the threshold of hell: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."

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My Proudest Moment as a Pundit: Bill O'Reilly Calls Me a Race Baiter

Eric Deggans | Posted 04.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Don Imus, Race Hustler, Media Matters, Racism, Bill O'Reilly, Race Baiter, Race, Fox News Channel, Bill Maher, Michelle Obama Lynching Party, Bill O'Reilly Michelle Obama Lynching Party, Bill O'reilly Lynching Party, Bill O'Reilly Race, Media News

Why is it that the main people who don't seem to want to talk about race in America these days, are those who earn their living by keeping us apart?

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Race Chasm Article Spurs Debate On CNN, Denver Post, Portland Oregonian

David Sirota | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Video, Race Chasm, The Race Chasm, Race, Gender, Politics News

The conservative Establishment really doesn't want to talk about issues like race or class -- to the point where that Establishment's spokespeople take to the pages of the New York Times to demand silence.

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Obama, Wright and Contested Stories

Gershom Gorenberg | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

if you attack a group's story, you attack the very meaning of its world. Criticize your own group's story, even softly, and you are likely to be considered a turncoat.

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Wright Opinions

August J. Pollak | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Pat Buchanan, Msnbc, Jeremiah Wright, Keith Olbermann, Race, Barack Obama, Cartoons, Cartoon, Political Cartoons, Politics News

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40 Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced

Jeff Cohen | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Video, Mlk Jr Assasination, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King Foreign Policy, Martin Luther King Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, MLK Assasination, Martin Luther King Jr., Racism, Mlk, Race, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News

In 1967 and '68, mainstream media saw Rev. Martin Luther King a bit like they now see Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

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Coincidence of Martin Luther King and Imus Anniversaries Brings Surprisingly Bitter Thoughts About Media

Eric Deggans | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

The continuing battle over issues like the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright suggests to me that our soundbite-focused media culture isn't well suited to the serious, complex debate we need to have on race in America.

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Keeping Up With the Joneses in a Career: The Worst "Ism" Isn't What You Think

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sexism, Racism, Art Buchwald, Richard Nixon, Michael Russnow, Writers Guild Strike, Writers Guild, Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes, Coming to America, Oscar, Robert Altman, Ageism, Isms, Agents, Perceptionism, Entertainment News

Perceptionism can happen to anyone, not only in the entertainment industry. We have seen careers in politics and business that appeared meteoric, only to have a misstep or loss shoot them down.

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Forty years later the FBI Still Has Some Explaining to Do About King's Murder

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Murder, Martin Luther King Jr., Racism, Cointelpro, Fbi, King Assassination, James Earl Ray, j.edgar Hoover, Home News

"Dangerous," "evil," "colossal fraud," were the choice terms that then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and other top FBI officials routinely spit ...

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Where the Dream Lives: The National Civil Rights Museum

John W. Whitehead | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Social Activism, Mlk Jr Assasination, MLK Assasination, National Civil Rights Museum, Rosa Parks, Politics News

When King was martyred, America lost its most effective prophet, and oppressed people, both at home and abroad, lost their most articulate spokesman.

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What Obama Owes Bill Clinton

Jordan Michael Smith | Posted 03.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Republicans, Race, Democrats, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Democrats Crime Policy, Chain Reaction, GOP Race Issue, Democratic Party Welfare Issue, Democrats Race Policy, George Mcgovern, Frank Rich, Democrats 1990s Race, GOP Policy Crime, GOP Crime Issue, GOP Welfare Issue, GOP Policy Race, GOP Policy Drugs, Thomas Edsall Chain Reaction, Horton Dukasis Race Issue, Paul Krugman, Home News

Despite the nastiness directed at him, however, Obama should be thanking Bill Clinton for one thing: his campaign nomination is unthinkable without him.

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