Community Checkup

A mini “TechCheck”…
A frequent commenter on this site, JJ, recently wrote me asking if there was any data to show how much blacks agree with some of the frequently mentioned views of Reverend Wright. I thought it was a pretty interesting question given the back-and-forth in the press and blogosphere lately about how how [...]

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Pat Buchanan has some issues with Obama’s race speech which he expresses in a piece titled, “A Brief for Whitey.” Apparently he feels like the discussion on race has been too one-sided and he wants black people to begin to listen to the white perspective (a group that he refers to as the “Silent Majority,” [...]

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Halfway through, I already knew that this was the greatest speech on race that I had ever heard a politician deliver. Truly historic. The way he placed the issues in historical, individual, and universal contexts was really unprecedented in the world of politics. He used an issue which marred his reputation (his [...]

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When Keith Olbermann is on point he offers some of the best commentary around. Last night, he nailed it with his comments on the pattern of the Clinton campaign to use subtle race and religious-based tactics to smear Obama. It’s 10 minutes long but worth watching in its entirety.
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Many people have commented over the past few days about Obama being darkened in Clinton’s ad. Although I do take strong objection to the other tactics by the Clinton campaign to “blacken” Obama and make him appear like an outsider, I don’t necessarily place this ad in the same category. As FactCheck concluded, the [...]

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The week was full of foolishness. Here’s two moments that stood out as the absolute worst for me.
#1: Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones responding to the picture put out of Obama in an African garb where she says that we shouldn’t feel shame about Obama wearing “his native clothing–the clothing of his country.”
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Chris Matthews dropped some major blows on Senator Watson from TX last night—completely embarrassing the man. In general, I like Matthews, but he does have a tendency to fly off the handle and humiliate his guests at times (sometimes appropriately, sometimes not). Last night, while watching the election results on MSNBC with Matthews and Keith [...]

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What’s been going on with me lately? Have I entered Bizarro World or what? First, I praise Brother Slickback, a man I’m almost always critical of. Now I’m about to bash my man Tavis who I’ve been behind for years. I feel like John Lewis. Am I turning into [...]

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Sike! John Lewis’ camp is now saying that he didn’t change his pledge from Clinton to Obama. Call this one a back flip.
From the AJC:
A story in Friday’s New York Times that said U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was going to back Barack Obama for president is inaccurate, a spokeswoman for the former civil [...]

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From the New York Times:
MILWAUKEE — Representative John Lewis, an elder statesman from the civil rights era and one of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most prominent black supporters, said Thursday night that he planned to cast his vote as a superdelegate for Senator in hopes of preventing a fight at the Democratic convention.
“In recent days, [...]

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