Posted in Politics on Sep 11th, 2009
During the 18 years following the conclusion of the Civil War, the state of Texas elected 3 African-Americans to the State Senate. There were also 32 African-Americans elected to the State House of Representatives during that time.
1883 was the year that the Texas State Senate saw its last African-American member leave office for quite some [...]
Posted in Politics on Jul 31st, 2009
Harry Allen refers to White Americans as “white supremacists.”
His logic in doing so, from my interpretation of his words, is that white people have the power in this country, thereby making them supreme, though not superior, to Blacks Americans. And Harry, it’s always a dicey proposition to attempt to break down your carefully crafted thoughts [...]
Being a beer lover I was pleased to hear of “The Beer Summit” being the theater where we can sing Kumbaya or not. This divisive topic about the arrest of professor Gates can be a valuable lesson if we grab it. What are the lessons we can learn? This is my list.
1. Racism is still a very [...]
Posted in Politics on Jul 9th, 2009
According to syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette the race is on to find the next Latinobama. He or she but most likely a he, will need the following traits:
Someone who inspires Latinos without threatening non-Latinos.
One who appreciates one’s ethnic background but not being limited by it.
A realist who does not gloss over the mistreatment of Latinos [...]
Posted in Politics on May 21st, 2009
Today, President Obama held a public discussion on his agenda for closing Gitmo. This sub topic of the overall policy of our country’s defense and war on terrorism stirs so much passion that it brought out one of the architects of the previous administration’s policies, former Vice-President Cheney. These two polarities have a small paragraph in [...]
Which one are you? The one who gets his own hide to safety and comfort first and foremost, or the one who risks himself and all that he’s achieved to help a weaker person get there too?
Now I see the importance of history
Why my people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Culture, Education, Immigration, Media, Politics, Racism on Apr 22nd, 2009
Okay, I agree. The title of this post is a terrible pun. But what can you do but laugh at the ignorance exhibited by Texas Republican official Betty Brown? The problem isn’t her confusion over the transliteration of Chinese names. The problem is that she refers to Chinese Americans as “your citizens” when speaking to [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Economics, Politics on Apr 20th, 2009
I wander around the Internet like a child in a candy store. So much to look at, so little time. I end up in places without any idea how I got there and wonder if I could get there again. In many ways, the Internet feels like a wilderness back country where you blaze your [...]
Why can’t Republicans attract minority votes? Strong agreement on social values hasn’t made a dime’s worth of difference at the polls. What gives? Ta-Nahesi Coates and Shelby Steele provide two interesting recent takes on the disconnect.
Steele, who is among only a handful of prominent Black conservatives, says the problem is that conservatives [...]
Posted in Education, History, Law & Justice, Politics, Religion on Apr 8th, 2009
Mahatma Ghandi, the man in the picture, has been one of the most profoundly positive influences on mankind in the last century. I suspect that his teaching of passive resistance liberated more humans non-violently than were been liberated by war.
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