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Upgrade Comedy

Comedian Tim Reid:
Obama’s election represents a challenge to comedians who deal in racial humor. With a confident, eloquent black man in the White House, along with a beautiful, accomplished wife and two impossibly adorable children, can any young black comic possibly still do jokes about bitches and ‘hos?
Won’t the very audiences they’re trying to reach [...]

Thanks, Tom Tancredo

2004 Hispanic Vote
55% Kerry 44% Bush
2008 Hispanic Vote
67% Obama 31% McCain
The GOP has alienated the fastest growing set of Americans, possibly for a generation.
Si Se Puede.

Thank You


White Men, Turn Out The Lights?

So, one of the smarter things Rove and Bush tried to do is bring minorities into the Republican fold. They had to see the writing on the wall. The core constituency of the Republican party, white males, is not growing. The major reason their political influence remains disproportionately high is due to a lack of [...]

It Can Happen In America


Florida, North Carolina

Black vote turning out like gangbusters. Somehow, I don’t think they’re voting for Sen. McCain.

The Right & “The Bradley Effect”

You know that when the right cites this in polls where Sen. Obama is ahead, they’re basically gambling that racism will deliver them votes, right? It’s not about whether Sen. McCain can campaign effectively enough to win over voters. It’s just praying that enough racists vote against the black guy.
Okay.

Southern Black Vote Is Coming Out Early

The beginning…
There have been predictions all year of a record black turnout for Obama. The first actual figures suggest that wasn’t just talk:
_ In North Carolina, blacks make up 31 percent of early voters so far, even though they’re just 21 percent of the population and made up only 19 percent of state’s overall 2004 [...]

What an amazing country!

Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times
The other day I had a conversation with a Beijing friend and I mentioned that Barack Obama was leading in the presidential race:
She: Obama? But he’s the black man, isn’t he?
Me: Yes, exactly.
She: But surely a black man couldn’t become president of the United States?
Me: It looks as if he’ll [...]

Get On The Bus

Early voting in Indiana:
For me the most moving moment came when the family in front of me, comprising probably 4 generations of voters (including an 18 year old girl voting for her first time and a 90-something hunched-over grandmother), got their turn to vote. When the old woman left the voting booth she made it [...]

14 Days To Go

We shall overcome.
Ann Nixon Cooper, 106 years old, has seen presidents come and go in her lifetime and has outlived most of them. On a sunny fall morning, she left her weathered but well-kept Tudor home in Atlanta, Georgia, to vote early — this time for Barack Obama.
The African-American centenarian remembers a time not long [...]

McCain Digs Up The “Welfare” Language

I don’t know why McCain doesn’t just use the “n” word and cut through the clutter.
Ronald Reagan did it first
The term “welfare queen” is most often associated with Ronald Reagan who brought the idea to a national audience. During his 1976 presidential campaign, Reagan would tell the story of a woman from Chicago’s South Side [...]

Step By Step

Andrew Young joins the no longer silent minority.

For Young, the moment passed quickly this time. As his name was called, Young walked stiffly toward the voting machines, waving and shaking hands with others waiting in line, their eyes twinkling with recognition and pride. As he approached the machine, a poll worker whispered, ‘Who is that?’
It’s [...]

Poll: GOP Frustration Watch

How likely is it someone on the right of prominence will use the “N” word versus Sen. Obama?

AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka: Hero Of The Day

Confront racism. Head on.

(via)

GOP Bigot Eruption: New Mexico’s Fernando C. de Baca

Another Republican tells us how he really feels.
Embattled Bernalillo County Republican Party Chairman Fernando C. de Baca has officially resigned.
The state Republican Party officially reported the resignation in a news release just after 3 p.m. Thursday.
Last weekend, C. de Baca was quoted in a BBC News blog as saying, “The truth is that Hispanics came [...]

The Klan In Mississippi

In a strange way I’m glad these chuckleheads are coming. They’re already in the margins of the margins of American life, and the election of Sen. Obama would be the biggest and most recent nail in their coffin.
The Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to be on campus for the face-off between [...]

Blacks To Blame

That’s who National Review’s Mark Krikorian is blaming for Washington Mutual’s failing. Blaming minorities for the screwed up economy is now an official Republican/conservative talking point. Heck of a job, guys.

This Just In: Water Is Wet!

ABC doesn’t listen to Ted Stevens, or else they wouldn’t clog up the tubes with this kind of non-news.
Blacks are following the election more intensely than other Americans, at a level unseen in the last three presidential elections. They’re more apt than Americans of other races to have contributed money or time to a political [...]

Iowa & The Race Question

Iowa is a state with a 95% white population. It went for Bush by 1%. And yet, Sen. Obama has consistently been double digits ahead of Sen. McCain there (and he beat Sen. Clinton and Sen. Edwards in the caucuses, of course).
What’s the deal?
It can’t all be geography - Indiana, Missouri, and Kentucky also share [...]

McCain Pollster Betting On Race To Get Ahead?

That is sure as heck how it sounds. Then again this guy Ed Goeas was Giuliani’s pollster and said that Florida was where Giuliani’s campaign would rebound. If those of you at home check your scorecards, you’ll remember that Giuliani finished a dismal third in that contest.

Running Vs. History

The big takeaway I get from this poll about racial attitudes is that we’ve got a long road to go still for people to be dragged into the 21st century and leave their prejudices behind. I mean, the idea that there are still some people who just go, yep, blacks are boastful, lazy and shiftless [...]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

The Republican party is holding a rally for minorities.
The Republican party is holding a rally for minorities… in Virginia.
The Republican party is holding a rally for minorities in Virginia… hosted by George “Macaca” Allen.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
They’re predicting 1,000 attendees and while past performance is no indicator of future growth, this does not bode well for this “outreach”:
Two [...]

McCain “Black Supporters” Were Bought And Paid For

They only cost him a few dollars to buy some stock photos.
I want to laugh, but I want to cry at the same time.

The Mostly White Republicans

One of the reasons the GOP speeches from the last couple nights and likely Thursday night will look so alien to the rest of normal America is that the GOP makes snow look diverse by comparison. The GOP is talking to themselves — and not much to anybody else.
Obama’s “strategy is, ‘If I can just [...]

Diversity Makes A Splash At The GOP Convention

I see white dudes… and nothing else. (via)

Less Black Republican Delegates

Shocker.
There are 36 black delegates at the Republican convention here — fewer than 2% of the total and a sharp drop-off from 2004, a think tank reports.
The GOP record was set with 6.7% black delegates in 2004.
The Democratic Party, which has targets for minority representation, said a record 24.5% of delegates at its convention last [...]

Oh By The Way

The Democratic party just officially nominated a black man to be its nominee. I thought that was worth noting.

Half Empty Brigade

Seriously, there are black people who think electing the first black president is some kind of step backwards for civil rights? I question the sanity of anyone who even thinks that for a second.

Jerome Corsi, Author Of “The Obama Nation”, To Appear On Racist White Power Radio

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your modern conservative movement in all of its glory.
Despite “all my apologies” for bigoted comments, Corsi reportedly scheduled to appear on “pro-White” radio show
Despite stating that he had apologized for what was described as a “series of bigoted and hateful posts,” Jerome Corsi, author of The Obama Nation, is scheduled [...]

“Center For Immigration Studies”: Immigrant Farts Cause Global Warming

So, not only is the “Center for Immigration Studies” a racist white power group, they’re also refreshingly stupid.

Black Journalists And Obama

Hold on to those double standards, folks.

“Uppity Watch” Begins Now

In this campaign we are likely to see conservatives and Republicans pushing - in ways both implicit and explicit - that the problem with Sen. Obama is that he’s an uppity black who has gotten too big for his britches. Already, MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan has twice dipped his toe into those Klanesque waters.
On Morning Joe, [...]

Joe Lieberman: “John McCain Doesn’t Have A Racist Bone In His Body”, Well… Except When Calling Vietnamese “Gook[s]“

Flashback, John McCain of 2000:
On his campaign bus recently, Sen. John McCain told reporters, “I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.” Although McCain said he was referring only to his prison guards, there are many reasons why his use of the word “gook” is offensive and alarming.
It is [...]

Sounding “Black”

As a black man who doesn’t sound traditionally “black” when I speak, this was interesting, though in some respects I would venture to guess that disparities in wages are the difference between sounding educated and uneducated versus racial intonations.

GOP Bigot Eruption: Grover Norquist Edition

Like a crack addict, Grover Norquist is one of the figures on the right with power who can’t help themselves.
“Norquist dropped by The Times’ Washington bureau today and, as part of his negative critique of Obama’s liberal stances on economic issues and other matters, he termed the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee ‘John Kerry with a [...]

Bring It On, Bitches

Let the cockroaches come into the light so we can squash them.
Neo-Nazi, skinhead and segregationist groups have reported gains in numbers of visitors to their Web sites and in membership since the senator from Illinois secured the Democratic nomination June 3. His success has aroused a community of racists, experts said, concerned by the possibility [...]

Accentuate The Positive, Eliminate The Negative?

You may not know but the rave I had for Sen. Obama’s speech about black fatherhood is not universal. There are some, like Earl here who sees things very differently. To crudely paraphrase his view, he thinks Obama and other pols (and folks like Bill Cosby) don’t emphasize the black families that are working and [...]

GOP Bigot Eruption: Texas GOP Convention Edition

They’ll have to change the name of the White House if Obama wins. Christ.

Obama Monkey Doll?

I wonder if this election is the last howl of the bigoted knuckle draggers before they go extinct in America. I can only hope.

Hey Fox News, Just Call Her A N***** And Be Done With It, Okay?

Fox News refers to Michelle Obama as Senator Obama’s “Baby Mama”.

So here’s the thing (because during this campaign I’m apparently learning that we black people have our own secret code and hand signals so this stuff has to be explained like you are speaking to a child at times), using the phrase “baby mama” to [...]

Sorry Conservatives

A few conservatives are stomping their feet in anger that I would say more than a few on the right would like to see churches like Trinity United firebombed.
I’m sorry, really.
I’m sorry that conservatives throughout American history have been the ones opposed to racial progress. I’m sorry conservatives once infected the Democratic party [...]

Racially Segregated Little League

… no more!! I actually used to live in Delray Beach, FL. But I lived on the “white” side, although I had no idea it was such until I read it in the paper. I have a tendency to be oblivious to that sort of thing, for better or worse.

I Do This Because You Are Dumb

Newsbusters’ Noel Sheppard: “Republicans face more scrutiny on race than Democrats.”
Me: “Yes!”
In the language of law enforcement, you round up the usual suspects.

For A Laugh

Check out this interactive infographic from the NY Times on how various demographics voted during the primaries. Then click “Blacks”. Hehehe.

Black Voters Always Vote For The Black Candidate

Just ask MD Senator Michael Steele, Ohio governor Ken Blackwell, and PA Governor Lynn Swann!

No Matter What Happens, This Moment Can’t Be Taken Away

Many Blacks Find Joy in Unexpected Breakthrough
Kwabena Sam-Brew, a 38-year-old immigrant from Ghana, doubted that Nana, his 5-year-old American-born daughter, would remember the rally that effectively crowned Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee Tuesday night.
But Mr. Sam-Brew said he would describe it to her: “I will tell her, ‘Tonight is the night that all [...]

Perspective

TUESDAY WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF BLACKS IN AMERICA.

Obama’s Hidden Vote

Yeah, John McCain isn’t going to get 26% of the black vote in Michigan versus Obama. Or anywhere else.

Newsweek: Barack Obama Polls Poorly Among Racists, Also Water Is Wet 99% Of The Time

Can someone explain to me why Newsweek thought this was somehow revelatory?
In the NEWSWEEK Poll, participants were asked to answer questions on a variety of race-related topics including racial preferences, interracial marriage, attitudes toward social welfare and general attitudes toward African-Americans. Respondents were grouped according to their answers on a “Racial Resentment Index.” Among white [...]

Dog The Bounty Hunter Starring Niger Innis

They hauled out black coservative Niger Innis from Congress of Racial Equality to try and ease Dog The Bounty Hunter back on to tv after he got caught using n****er.
Weird.
Innis was a campaign chair for Alan Keyes though, so I clearly trust his judgement.

The Contrarian Black

Considering the lack of minority - especially black - voices and faces in elite political discourse, I am always amused at the amount of contrarian opinions that get pushed into the print and broadcast press. You don’t get to hear much from people who hold widely held positions in the black community unless they’re retreads [...]

Just Your Random Conservative

Some conservative out of the blue starts IMing me today, arguing with me about immigration and affirmative action. He argues with me that white people are downtrodden and discriminated against and that it’s right for conservatives are right to be anti-immigration in order to preserve white majority.
Then he starts telling me that its scientifically proven [...]

Latest On The Black Vote

From today’s LA Times poll

African Americans would vote overwhelmingly for Obama, the first black candidate with a realistic chance of becoming president. In the poll, he carried 79% of African Americans, with 3% supporting McCain.
In 2004, Bush got 11% of the black vote, which is likely the highest a Republican will receive for the next [...]

“Obama just doesn’t sound right for an American president.”

It’s the sentiment of one voter in West Virginia. And I know I’m in many ways the stereotypical coastal elitist here, but I don’t think I’m crazy to think that a party absolves itself of morality by pandering to that kind of thing, always afraid of taking a step forward because it might offend some [...]

Hillary White Power Clinton

The last throes are pretty messy.
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning [...]

Black Voters Don’t Count

That’s the latest - and probably last - b.s. excuse from Team Clinton on why they didn’t really lose the nomination. As I discussed with a friend last night, the Clinton campaign decided that in order to win they would throw the black vote aside and drive up their vote among white voters. What they [...]

The Greatest Generation (Domestic Edition)

Elderly black Americans like this woman laid the groundwork for those of us who followed. Without their sacrifices in the past, there is no America of today - where the ideals of racial equality are recognized as an uncontroversial national ideal. These men and women understand the historical significance of a black president in a [...]

The McCain Show

Get ready to watch The McCain Show this election season. The McCain show is John McCain making great show about being against his party’s racist impulses while at the same time benefitting from them and not demonstrating the leadership to keep the party in line.
Howard Dean: “This is a test of leadership for John McCain. [...]

50 Shots? Sigh.

I confess I haven’t followed this case, and it is highly likely the jury (correction: it was a judge trial) had every reason for deciding as they did. But I hope people understand that just from a gut level it is very hard for black people to reconcile that there was nothing criminal about an [...]

Plight Of The Black Cons

In all likelihood, Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president. He will be the first black man in history with a legitimate, decent shot at being the leader of the free world. His candidacy will cause turnout among black Americans to go off the charts and more blacks - in raw numbers and [...]

The Wave Coming This November

The MSM and the establishment political class just haven’t noticed it yet.
Colette Forrest was among the first in Charlotte. She came with 13-month-old son Bobby to vote in the Democratic primary for Obama for president and Beverly Perdue for governor.
“This election is historic,” said Forrest, who is black, after voting on the second floor of [...]

GOP Bigot Eruption: Rep. Geoff Davis Calls Sen. Obama A “Boy”

They won’t contain themselves. No matter how much John McCain asks his party and fellow conservatives to tone down the racial rhetoric, they will not be able to stop themselves. The idea of a black man beating their Republican candidate for the presidency will be too much to bear for the party of the Southern [...]

John McCain Voted Against Civil Rights Act Of 1990, Now Falsely Calls It A Quota