By The Admin on September 22, 2009
Everybody’s racist, it seems.
Republican Rep. Joe Wilson? Racist, because he shouted “You lie!” at the first black president. Health care protesters, affirmative action supporters? Racist. And Barack Obama? He’s the “Racist in Chief,” wrote a leader of the recent conservative protest in Washington.
But if everybody’s racist, is anyone?
The word is being sprayed in all directions, [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on September 22, 2009
Candy Crowley and Ed Hornick, CNN
- Race and politics are a combustible combo that explodes into headlines when an ex-president lights the fuse, as Jimmy Carter did recently.
“When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler [...]
Posted in Race, White House
By The Admin on September 22, 2009
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- The bitter truth is that President Obama can’t talk about race even if he wants to. This has absolutely nothing to do with his mixed racial upbringing, or his straddle of many worlds. It has everything to do with politics.
If Obama spoke out on race he’d confirm the deep suspicions of the [...]
Posted in Featured, Race, White House
By The Admin on September 14, 2009
President Barack Obama began a week that will dwell heavily on overhauling the health care system, declaring himself confident Congress will pass “a good health care bill” even though some Republican opponents were trying to kill the measure for political gain.
At the same time, the president and some members of both parties were shifting from [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on September 14, 2009
The lawmaker who shouted “You lie!” at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress on health care said Sunday he would not make a further apology on the floor of the House.
Republican congressman Joe Wilson has already apologized to the president — and had that apology accepted — but still faces possible censure if [...]
Posted in Congress, White House
