Community Checkup

It’s no secret that the Clintons have been playing dirty. Smart, but dirty. The question remains as to whether their tactics will be able to stem the gigantic tidal wave of support behind Obama. I don’t think they will.
Plenty of folk, such as Ron Walters of the University of Maryland, have [...]

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There’s still Nevada to go, but I’m most interested in South Carolina next week. It will be the first real test of how much support Obama has from the black community.I also see it as being a gauge of how far some in the black community have come in dealing with the fear of the [...]

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It’s been a busy week so I’m a little late with this one…
Obama’s second place finish in New Hampshire came as a bit of a surprise to those who placed any faith in polling. Some of the polls had Obama ahead of Hillary as much as 13%. Yet he lost by a few points. [...]

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I’m still amazed. I knew Obama had a very good chance. I knew his message of change was strong and was what many wanted to hear. I knew that the tons of money he was able to raise was an indicator that American might be ready for him. Still, I [...]

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Yesterday, The Washington Post, for a second time, accused Obama of being wrong, or lying about his statement that there are more black men in jail than in college.
Obama’s exact words on November 29th were, “I don’t want to wake up four years from now and discover that we still have more young black men [...]

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Although I disagree with Shelby Steele’s thesis on Obama, he was right about one thing: so-called black authenticity in politics is largely intertwined with being angry and confrontational.
Al Sharpton made this point plain as day in the recent New York Magazine piece.In his book, Steele argued that black leaders either conform to bargainer or challenger [...]

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Last week in Iowa, John Edwards fielded a question from the audience regarding what he would do about the possibility of “payback” from the black community towards whites if Obama were elected. Referencing the O.J. case as an example, he said:
“How are you going to get that brought out in your campaign? Will the same [...]

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Civil rights activist. Former congressman and mayor of Atlanta. First African American UN Ambassador.
Yep, all titles held by Andrew Young; the same man who made the off-the-wall remarks during this interview. I know he was “just clowning,” during part of the interview–but in a public forum? You have to wonder what he was thinking. [...]

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Shelby Steele wrote a piece in Time last Friday on his new book, A Bound Man and was on NPR yesterday discussing it. Given that I have yet not read his book, I was interested to read and hear a first-hand account of his thesis on Obama and why he can’t win rather [...]

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France’s response to a recent riot in the hood…
President Nicolas Sarkozy rejected the notion Thursday that a recent bout of rioting was part of a wider social crisis, blaming instead a “thugocracy” in France’s housing projects.
The conservative leader vowed to give law enforcement improved technology to fight urban disturbances like ones that shook the troubled [...]

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