one of my favorite points from this piece on the disconnect b/w whites and black in america:
“Two thirds of whites believe that blacks have achieved or will soon achieve racial equality. Nearly eighty percent of blacks believe that racial justice for blacks will not be achieved either in their lifetime or at all in the U.S.”

this whole experience has made me realize that many whites are still woefully ignorant about the black experience in america.

In addition to being disgusted by her willingness to make such an ad hominem attack on a fellow Democrat, I'm surprised Clinton and her followers are willing to make this argument considering her own spiritual advisor is rather questionable. You haven't done much reading on the Fellowship (also sometimes called the Family), have you? I would have preferred to leave the candidates religious convictions and personal lives alone, but if one's personal faith is such an integral part of their qualification for President, are you sure you're comfortable with the spiritual choices of your own preferred candidate?

I flagged it with a "like" to send up a flare for slower readers that I was making fun of the "uppity" thing. Oh well.

I think we should focus on how centuries of discrimination affect us today including:

1. lack of weatlh accumulation: we need college aid for all.

2. lack of political power: we need to end felon loss of voting rights due to arbitrary and silly drug laws that are discriminatory in their impact. We need DC voting rights. No coincidence that the only majority-black jurisdiction is the only one without voting rights in congress.

3. prior de jure housing segregation: today's de facto ineuqality in school opportunity. Thus federal equalization and aid for all schools.

These things about real power and lack of power and real money and lack of money and real education and lack of education are more important than focusing on who said what or who didn't say what making what they did say racist or disrespectful by some kind of vague implication and arbitrary media frenzy/consensus process.

[regarding the Pastor Wright issue] there is evidence that the matter is peeling away former independent and Republican support from Obama — and could jeopardize as well support among white Reagan Democrats in northern industrial states the Democratic ticket must carry in November. (....

...In historical terms, the 2008 combat between Obama and Clinton has been downright mild. ....But none of this begins to approach the toxic stuff purveyed at the 1948 Democratic convention, ...; the 1960 convention,... the dreadful 1968 and 1972 bloodbaths; or even the spirited 1984 competition ... It most approximates the plain-vanilla 1992 competition among Bill Clinton, Paul Tsongas, and Jerry Brown or the 2000 contest between Al Gore and Bill Bradley. (
....There is no reason whatever that Hillary Clinton, with so many weeks remaining until the Denver convention, should throw in the towel now. ....

Meanwhile pollster.com is showing Obama behind McCain nationally by 5 and growing, and behind McCain in swing states (losing to McCain in PA, FL, MO (15 points!), and OH; tied with McCain in VA MN; beating McCain in IA NJ OR and WI).

Wow. Behind in Pa nad OH and FL, tied in MN. Does not bode well.

unPC: less is more, amigo!

And most of the dead in the bad, bad first decade were indeed white fags.

Right here in Seattle, I lost many, many friends and quit counting at 10. All white and all gay men ... seems some bad information is being peddled by Pastor Wright, if not just outright distortion.

Anyone who thinks that Wright's views aren't widely held in the black community (esp. in the southeast) is living a sheltered life.

Should we also respect the "historical context" of the KKK? Because a lot of people from the "Southeast" like them, too.