Clinton, Obama spar over gas tax (Video)
April 30, 2008
Blacks wrestle with long-term impact of Obama-Wright rift
April 30, 2008
Christian Science Monitor
- In disowning his former pastor Tuesday, a month after saying he could never do so, Sen. Barack Obama walked a very fine line: He had to renounce a prominent Black preacher who had become a political problem without alienating African-American voters, a bedrock of his support, for whom churches are often a center of community life.
Senator Obama’s break with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. - who officiated at his wedding and baptized his two daughters - could turn off some poorer and older, civil rights-era Blacks who may already wonder about Obama’s ability to identify with their lives, say experts in Black politics and some Black voters.
Wright time for Obama to drop out
April 30, 2008
BONNIE ERBE, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Sen. Barack Obama’s response to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary appearance on Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., is not just a day late and a dollar short: It’s a month-and-a-half late and a few million dollars short.
Wright’s self-promoting and racially divisive remarks have served to set back decades of progress on race relations in the United States. And Obama’s long-delayed denunciation of his former minister seems to have come too late to save the senator’s political self-immolation.
Indiana Black Voters Feeling Ignored
April 30, 2008
STEVEN GRAY, Time
- For weeks, Delores Smith, membership coordinator at the Madame C. J. Walker Theater in Indianapolis, has e-mailed and called Sen. Barack Obama’s representatives, hoping he’ll hold a campaign event at the 937-seat theater. It is, after all, named in honor of one of the nation’s first black millionaires. And its place in the heart of one of Indianapolis’ oldest black neighborhoods makes it a key stop for candidates seeking this city’s nearly quarter-million African-American voters — the largest concentration in Indiana. But so far, Smith says, “I haven’t heard anything.”
Even before the major distraction this week caused by the remarks of black liberation theologist and former Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright, black voters in Indiana have been feeling ignored. While both Democratic presidential candidates have been jockeying for the rural, working-class white voters who make up much of Indiana’s electorate, they have been largely absent from predominantly black neighborhoods that have historically been among the party’s strongholds.
Tips for J.C. Watts to Become The Black Ted Turner
April 30, 2008
Madison J. Gray, Black Voices
- Turns out that of all people, conservative Republican former Congressman J.C. Watts is trying his hand at what BET has said loud and clear that they didn’t give a crap about: the news and black people.
So enter Watts and his new enterprise the Black Television News Channel, which he hopes will fill the void of African American-focused news and features. Great idea, actually. But it’s not the first time someone has attempted to do news aimed at black people.
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