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I received an e-mail message that was forwarded to me, having been forwarded several times previously from sources unknown containing the transcript of an interview of Barack Obama
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According to a transcript of an exchange between Blagojevich and an unnamed advisor, the governor was caught exclaiming:
"This f@#ing black guy s#its gold bullion! And you're telling...
As we come closer to the "post-racial age" of a Barack Obama presidency, I am intrigued to find that post-racial racism is already being propagated in the pages of the Washington Post....
Community organizers convened in Washington on Thursday to address health care, immigration, and the economy along with President-elect Barack Obama's transition team members.
The
On its face, the news is great: After years of being labeled an “underrepresented minority” in computer science, Blacks in the U.S. are on the brink of leaving that category, with bachelor’s...
The need to deploy media and technology as a force on those who govern is a daily concern for Chris Rabb, a Philadelphia resident, entrepreneur and founder of the popular political
It is perhaps a bit late in the day, nearly two weeks after November 4, to be writing about Barack Obama’s electoral victory. This want of alacrity, however, is intentional.
I thought...
First the good news: We're two months away from President George W. Bush's last full day in the White House. The countdown for the end of the nightmare has begun in earnest.
Now the...
Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.
Incidents around the country referring to President-elect...
It’s a new day in America. Like hungry bees intoxicated by too much honey, hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the world are abuzz, tasting for the first
Obama's victory shifts black identity - `to be seen simply as Americans'By JESSE WASHINGTONAP National Writer(WASHINGTON) Shortly after leaving the voting booth, 70-year-old community...
Obama becomes the first Black president, thus ending racism. (Wink, nod)
It was 11:30 p.m. the Friday before the presidential elections. Nikita Dawson had persevered in line for hours, vacillating between light banter with other waiting voters and serious...
President-Elect Obama's inspirational election night victory speech in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois on November 4, 2008.
And in under two hours, I will be sharing this moment when my wife and I bring our 5- and 2-year old sons to push the big green VOTE button when we cast our ballots for Obama this afternoon.
They...
I always get emotional on election day.
Today will be my sixth presidential election that I will be voting in, and the most important.
This will also be the first presidential election...
Hat tip to Marc Maron & Sam Seder of Air America Radio's Maron v. Seder Show for this hilarious and easily believable parody peeking into the subconscious of the Maverick & Co.
Subtle, it's not. That said, this kitchy, unpolished web video is in fact produced by the Obama campaign to remind complacent voters to avoid doing what lurks in the battered, collective...
Over the last several weeks, a fierce argument has broken out over voter registration, particularly the registration efforts of ACORN, accusations of voter fraud, and the ability of...
This graph shows how highly correlated early voting rates this year are tied to states with large populations of Blackfolk.
Such baseless, blame-the-victim allegations are nothing less than scapegoating of Nazi/Jim Crow proportions.
Blaming "inner-city dwellers", ACORN and others is akin to charging rape...
It’s part of the Republican DNA to accuse Democrats of stealing elections just as Democrats accuse Republicans of intimidating minorities. It has been ingrained in the GOP’s neurons...
In case you can't read the writing on the back of the t-shirt of the White motorcyclist pictured below, it reads:
"Nigger Please!! It's a WHITE house"
(Notice the McCain-Palin...
With the McCain campaign growing desperate by the day as polls show Senator Barack Obama making significant progress in key battleground states, the presidential election is now turning...
When you think about the emerging green economy, don’t think of George Jetson with a jet pack. Think of Joe Sixpack with a hard hat and lunch bucket, sleeves rolled up, going off to...
What is this elusive "better way" that corporate media and Congressional leaders have refused to include in the recently failed legislation, you ask?
Click here to read about what
Today is the third day of the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative. This year I decided to focus on listening to the global health panels, which have emphasized the goal of expanding the...
CGI is a very important forum for bringing key players together. However, there also tend to be a lot of contradictions in these types of gatherings. The winner of today’s “Clueless...
As I said, these are historic times and the stakes are high, with competing demands, interests and ideologies (including those that got us into this mess in the first place). We are...
According to Davis attorney, Carol Gray, the state has still not sought to find and interview perhaps the only eyewitness to the murder for which Mr. Davis has been convicted and has...
Who's the elitist?! John McCain owns 7 houses, 13 cars and one corporate jet. Obama? One house, one car . . . and one bicycle.
imagine persons who are able bodied, as opposed to those with disabilities. If I were to say that able-bodied persons have certain advantages, certain privileges if you will, which
At the annual Washington gathering of the Christian right sponsored by the political arm of the Family Research Council, the Republican Party's top emissaries have come in past years...
I am confident that Mr. Jealous' vision and activist credentials will help put the NAACP on a path towards fully leveraging 21st Century assets and tactics while honoring the long,
The Macomb County Republican Party chair who told Michigan Messenger earlier this week that Republicans planned to challenge voters at the polls using a list of foreclosed homes has...
How can Americans truly have freedom of expression in this all-consuming media age when there is less and less local ownership of our TV and radio stations and newspapers and the population...
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann waxes eloquent on the GOP's vile branding of 9/11™
Fact #1: MSNBC's rise in ratings is overwhelmingly due to the meteoric success of Keith Olbermann deftly skewering right-wingers, their surrogates and minions.
Fact #2: NBC (and pseudo-objective/quasi-crypto-conservative...
Today marks the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, a pivotal day in history and a day which brought about so much heartbreak and destruction not only in the
That Prince George’s should wind up at the top for foreclosures, and the resulting scams, is particularly troubling to many. At the start of the housing crisis, subprime loans were
My four grandparents were community organizers, as were a few other ancestors of mine from previous generations. In fact, some of the greatest community organizers in the first half...
Cenk Uygar toys with two Black "moderate" Republican bloggers . . . and it gets ugly!
Full transcript of this very articulate, moist colored natural athlete.
I suspect by the time the wheels hit the tarmac in Philadelphia, my cynism will return about what this country's electorate will unfold for this country in November. But in this moment...
Brother Emmett, you have not died in vain. This election will not aver this fact in and of itself, but it may be one of several pivotal events our nation so desperately needs to ignite...
Afro-Netizen is not on the DNCC's official list of credentialed blogs presently, despite the fact that as I type this post with my blazing hot MacBook burning my lap, I am sitting amidst...
Bill Clinton's speech at the 2008 Democratic Convention
A 300-pound, former NFL star who needle-points and sings about emoting got my vote back in the 70's and now thirty-odd years later as a father, husband, Black American and progressive...
I had to wake up early this morning to be at the Curtis Hotel in downtown Denver to be on Farai Chideya's show, NPR's News & Notes as part of their regular Bloggers Roundtable.
