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Jimmy Carter puts his special spin on the opposition to President Obama’s policy proposals:
It’s official. Thanks to Jimmy Carter we now know that most of the opposition to President Obama’s agenda is rooted in blatant racism. Of course, Carter’s is just one voice suggesting as much. The talking points memo has made the rounds and those defending [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Obama Presidency, Race Relations, Video at 11:20 AM UTC
Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association. She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Best Of the Web, Obama Presidency, Race Relations at 4:53 PM UTC
In his own words: The President wasn’t there, didn’t know all the facts, but is sure the Cambridge police “acted stupidly.” Support of local police hit a new low as the President spoke, more change we can’t live with:
As his press conference about healthcare was wrapping up, President Obama chose to comment on the arrest of [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Obama Presidency, Race Relations, Video at 4:58 PM UTC
Jonah Goldberg is editor-at-large of National Review Online and the author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. His column of February 20, 2009 — “Cowardly Conversation Starter” — follows:
“Hey, black folks, do you know any white folks? Good. O.K., I want you to go [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Best Of the Web, Race Relations at 5:18 PM UTC
Robert Reich boldly tells white males to get to the back of the bus:
When not in power, Democrats have become adept at masking their underlying premises and policy intentions. Knowing that fully revealing their socialist agenda would frighten the begebbers out of normal Americans, liberals seeking power pretend to be centrists, even eschewing the “liberal” moniker [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, Obama Presidency, Race Relations, Video at 2:32 PM UTC
OK, I admit it. I’m a white male. In today’s America, some would argue that I should be excluded from any meaningful discussion of race relations for that reason alone. James H. Cone, author of Black Theology & Black Power, wrote that “Black Power believes that blacks are not really human beings in white eyes.” I have brown [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Race Relations, Video at 4:02 PM UTC
Fifty years after the greatest advances in civil rights ever, America is becoming a shining example of the triumph of good over evil, equality over prejudice, and honesty over ignorance. The most diverse nation on earth, the United States has become the best place on earth to live for people of color. Barack Obama has acknowledged [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Race Relations at 6:38 PM UTC
Like many average Americans, the brouhaha swirling around Barack Obama’s church and former Pastor has prompted me to take a closer look at Black Liberation Theology. What I’ve found is disturbing at best and confirms the view that Pastor Wright’s trenchant statements are accurate representations of his church’s core beliefs. BLT is neither Christian nor, ironically, liberating, but its powerful [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Race Relations at 5:01 PM UTC
Race-baiters across the fruited plain are in full damage control, penning multiple op/eds attempting to provide cover for their exposed comrade, Pastor Jeremiah Wright. Despite facing an uphill battle, Reverend Wright’s defenders just might pull it off considering the support lent by the mainstream media. To get this many column inches, William F. Buckley had to [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, Race Relations at 6:40 PM UTC
In a shocking development certain to impact this year’s Presidential campaign, news sources report Republican presumptive nominee John McCain has long-time ties to a church preaching “Eurocentric theology.” Senator McCain has been a member of Harmony United Church of God since 1988. The Senior Pastor, Reverend Jedediah Strong, who married McCain and baptized his children, has been a controversial yet beloved mentor [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Politics, Race Relations at 4:26 AM UTC