Rebranding Rwanda
When the average American thinks of Rwanda, there are two thoughts that come to mind—genocide and gorillas.
View ArticleBlack Conservatives Join SCOTUS Brief Urging Reconsideration of Racial Quotas
Washington, D.C. — Black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network joined a legal brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court that asks the Court to overturn a recent decision that allows...
View ArticleTrayvon Inspired Obama to Act Like the First Black President
In 2004, at the Democratic National Committee’s presidential convention, I was mesmerized by Barack Obama, a little known state senator from Illinois. He electrified the convention and created a global...
View ArticleWe’re All Rich In America
He looked up at his mother and said, “Mom, here in America we are all rich.” He shook his head, looked down at the table and said, “I can’t believe people actually live like that today.”
View ArticleCan Republicans Be As Ideological As Obama?
Talk about Republican Party differences between the “establishment” and the Tea Party is taking attention from where it really needs to be focused – on the real issues facing the nation.
View ArticleFake Patriotism
This weekend, Americans located all over the country will step out onto their patios, decks, and backyards, to partake in a delicious barbeque with family, friends, and loved ones. A drink or two is...
View ArticleDon’t Mistake Tea Party Birth Pains For Death Throes
With, most recently, incumbent Republican senators Pat Roberts in Kansas and Lamar Alexander in Tennessee winning their respective primaries, tea party challengers failed in all attempts in this...
View ArticleUnintended Consequences and Lost American Virtue
A new Pew Research Center survey of opinion about the importance of religion in American life shows an interesting picture. Over the last 12 years, the percentage of Americans that think religion is...
View ArticleThe Poverty of Identity Politics
Imagine if the current President were a Republican, and if during the second half of his second term, after having been elected both times with record turnout by blacks, the black unemployment rate...
View ArticleRacial Hatred In Reverse
The scenes that we Americans have been witnessing in multiple cities across this country, at first intermittently and lately almost regularly, have brought to mind a seriously disturbing memory. It’s a...
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