President Obama is overwhelmingly popular in every region of the country except for the south. I am surely this is all entirely due to his economic policies and his radical social agenda and not any other thing at all, certainly not the color of his skin no way sir.
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Rudy Giuliani Up To Old Tricks
October 19th, 2009
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You know, next to Dick Cheney, Giuliani is probably the highest ranking fascist to hold office in America ever.
94 Years Later, Tom Joyner Gets Justice
October 14th, 2009
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Too late, but still good.
Two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran, were unanimously pardoned Wednesday by South Carolina.
Officials believe the men are the first in the state to be posthumously pardoned in a capital murder case.
Black landowners Thomas and Meeks [...]
OMG Scary Black People On Train
September 15th, 2009
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While I was going down to the Teabagger’s protest on Saturday I noted on Twitter that the ones I was on the subway with were noticeably prickly around some black folks also riding the train.
Here’s a post from conservative Dan Riehl to confirm that the sentiment wasn’t isolated.
Riding out of DC on the Metro, 9/12, [...]
SNL Hires Two New Cast Members, Still…
September 1st, 2009
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I’m guessing their hiring may not be over, but is SNL going to go through another season without hiring any more minority cast members? The Fred Armisen Obama is a total mistake (SNL does best when they have a great political impression – Tina Fey as Palin, Will Ferrell as Bush, Phil Hartman as Clinton…), [...]
And Some Times Powerline Should Shut Up
July 30th, 2009
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Powerline adds their stupid right-wing opinion to the growing mass of wrong-headed right-wing opinion piled up around the Henry Gates arrest:
This suggests to me that, as far as African-Americans are concerned, ‘race politics’ will continue unabated, as if Obama had never been elected president.
This suggests to me that right-wingers insist on pretending as if racism [...]
Sigh
July 24th, 2009
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Conservative columnist/blogger Don Surber
I also know that there have been incidents of false reports of racism by police officers — the Tawana Brawley case, for one.
And you know what? Every time a case comes up involving racism and police, we hear about Tawana freaking Brawley from 22 years ago. Yes, she lied. Yes, Al Sharpton [...]
Dave Chapelle Predicts The Henry Louis Gates Jr. Incident
July 23rd, 2009
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Because sometimes you have to laugh about it. (via)
Blogging On Race
July 22nd, 2009
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You know, I hate writing about racial issues. I’d much rather be talking about almost anything else relating to politics, but so often instead of discussing policy differences and differing belief systems, Republican and conservatives jump to race. And while for the nation I think things have gotten significantly better (Cambridge PD notwithstanding), since President [...]
Unforgivable Blackness…
July 22nd, 2009
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The President of the United States is a black man, but some things still need to change
Boris Kodjoe owns a mansion in Atlanta. But when he goes to answer his door, the black actor knows what it’s like to be an outcast.
‘When I’m opening the door of my own house, someone will ask me where [...]
Video: The Key Moment Of President Obama’s Address To The NAACP
July 16th, 2009
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I have been waiting for a black leader with the sort of weight of the presidency behind him to make a speech like this for a long time. President Obama did not disappoint.
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“Here We Are On Air Force One”
July 15th, 2009
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President Obama shares a moment with Willie Mays.
Video: Michael Steele’s Awkward Time @ The NAACP Convention
July 14th, 2009
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I’ll give Michael Steele this little bit of credit: unlike Bush he wasn’t afraid to show up in front of a bunch of black people at the NAACP convention. That said, here’s some of the fun:
* The woman introing him indicates she used to campaign for Republicans… until they went “a little nuts”
* She indicates [...]
Slave Labor Built The Capitol…
July 8th, 2009
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Just don’t tell Republican Rep. Steve King.
The Republican Strategy To Alienate Minorities And Non-Southerners Continues To Pay Dividends
June 14th, 2009
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2008 Election Map, Proportional To Electoral Votes (via)
Keep it up guys.
McCain won the South in November, but Obama swept the rest of the country by an even bigger margin. The same pattern holds now for House and Senate seats. Republicans may continue to win governorships in Democratic-leaning states, but in congressional and presidential elections the [...]
Browning Of America
May 13th, 2009
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Pat Buchanan and the Minutemen just reached for more of their heartburn medicine…
More of the 3,142 counties in the United States are becoming majority-minority, meaning more than 50 percent of their population is made up of people other than single-race, non-Hispanic whites, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
If Only Black People Didn’t Exist…
April 29th, 2009
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… Barack Obama’s approval ratings would be higher lower. This is the sort of thing that Washington Examiner’s conservative Washington correspondent Byron York gets paid actual American dollars to observe.
Hey, Byron, what if we made a black vote worth 3/5 of a white one? No?
The Pinnacle?
April 9th, 2009
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Some are saying that this is a historical high for blacks in America. Well, that may be true but I’d like to think its just the beginning. I hope we’ve reached a point where black kids turn away from the fantasy of being a hip hop star or a basketball player and instead realize that [...]
Glenn Reynolds Can’t Imagine Why Black Neighborhoods Don’t Want Tons Of Guns Around Them
March 26th, 2009
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Can someone please tell Instapundit why heavily black neighborhoods might not want guns running like water through them? In DC, if a gun ban were put up to a vote, it would pass pretty overwhelmingly. I can’t imagine why that might be.
Duke Ellington First Solo Black On U.S. Coin In Circulation
February 24th, 2009
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Woot.
The United States Mint launched a new coin Tuesday featuring jazz legend Duke Ellington, making him the first African-American to appear by himself on a circulating U.S. coin.
Ellington, the composer of classics including ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing’ appears on the ‘tails’ side of the new D.C. quarter. George [...]
