Racism

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A congressman trying to become Alabama’s first black governor has drawn the ire of the state’s black leaders by refusing to take part in screenings for their organizations’ endorsements.

From NBCNewYork.com: Hundreds of officials and influential leaders are participating in an annual national convention hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network, which began Wednesday morning.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was booed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network Convention in New York on Wednesday, when the TV personality insisted race is no longer a "real" issue, and told the crowd, "It's time to drop the race stuff."

... or does it just cause selective vision?

BOSTON – The tea party movement is returning to the city from which its revolutionary spirit was born, with Sarah Palin headlining a final rally before the activists’ cross-country tour culminates in Washington on Tax Day.

From WashingtonPost.com: A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county’s only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

EDGEWATER, N.J. — Police in northern New Jersey say a 14-year-old girl grabbed a supermarket microphone and announced, “All blacks leave the store.”

It seems the Republican party is out of touch with the sensitivities of African Americans regarding slavery and its connection to the Confederate army. According to Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, slavery was “just a nit” in history and shouldn’t prevent us from honoring the many men who fought for slavery.

My entire life I have been hearing how the white man and the government are the reasons so many of us were poor, uneducated, and unemployed. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do understand that the holocaust of slavery, the unjust justice system of Jim Crow and the civil rights disparities crippled Black Americans in […]