The language of intolerance is not without consequences. Unfortunately, the intolerant are too weak minded to understand the consequences of their own words. So-called "conservatives", taking their cue from the "You're with us, or with the terrorists" jargon of their President...

I have refrained from writing about John McCain’s pastor problem. I really resented the way so many people used Rev. Wright as an excuse to unleash their racism and guiltlessly attack Barack Obama for being black – and worse – attack the institution of the black church, which has provided hope and inspiration...

Well, I guess it was either that or write off the election. That’s a pretty tough choice, and I can understand why he did it. Barack Obama threw his ex-pastor under the bus today, right under the wheels. I can only imagine the pain on both sides of that event. Rev. Wright really didn’t help matters by...

Black faces scare the hell out of Republicans. (Let’s be honest, a lot of Democrats, too. Hey, they scare Barack Obama’s grandma.) Can we get over it? The honchos who run the Republican Party don’t mind African Americans, just ask them. They say they love their black brothers and sisters, and there’s...

I should not find it ironic that the people who so freely flung around the epithet “Bush hater”, are now freely spreading hate aimed at Barack Obama. You have read this slime right here on these pages. Not just disagreement with his political positions. Not mere accusations that his promise of hope is...

The further removed we get from that time, the more difficult it is for younger people to appreciate just how chaotic those times were and how dangerous it was for a man like Martin Luther King to fight for what was right and speak out the way that he did. Coming into the 1960’s, African Americans still...

On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, many people, especially politicians, have felt obliged to look back at the Reverend through the gauzy fabric of his popular image, cultivated since that time by countless elementary school lessons taught in white suburbia. Most years, the...