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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Speaking to a packed house in Philadelphia this morning, Barack Obama attempted to lance a boil festering on his campaign for the better part of one week. Senator Obama’s pastor and spiritual mentor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, has been on the receiving end of virulent criticism over remarks made from his pulpit in Trinity United Church [...]
The Los Angeles Fire Department is under siege, though not from an enemy reasonable people would expect. One of the nation’s best departments can handle wind-whipped hillside fires and towering infernos in the downtown district. Overwhelming the LAFD is a string of race and gender discrimination lawsuits, costing the taxpayers of Los Angeles nearly $15 million over [...]
Conceived by President Kennedy in 1961, Affirmative Action was rooted in a desire to realize the most fundamental American ideals. All men may have been created equal, but many had been subjected to abysmal treatment since before the United States was born. Passage of the 14th Amendment and the groundbreaking civil rights legislation of the 1960s [...]
As any psychologist worth his salt will tell you, living in the past will ruin the present. After all, the past cannot be changed, and terrible yesterdays pulled into the present are allowed to do their damage all over again. Yesterday I failed. Yesterday I was wronged. Yesterday, something terrible happened. Learning from yesterday’s events is [...]
Today we celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, a titan of America’s civil rights movement. An unequalled orator, the Baptist minister called on the nation to “rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’” Adhering to non-violent [...]