A Rubber Door

This is a quote from the following article.  I post this article because I think the statistics are important - they provide important insight and distinction between black and white Americans.  I know some will say that there is only one America, and this should be true, but when you look at the difference in [...]

Thinking about what Jeremiah Wright said regarding AIDS and I dug up the following passage regarding the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis where 399 men where used as human guinea pigs to see what happens to the body after syphilis kills you. The study ran from 1932 to 1972 even though a standard cure for the [...]

You know it really bothers me that Mike Huckabee did a better job of saying what I wanted to say in my last post; much more to the point.
This is from the conservative, baptist minister and former Presidential candidate:
And one other thing I think we’ve gotta remember. As easy as it is for [...]

The whole Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy has been a tough one to watch, and it’s taken me a long time to respond because what he has said, at least what I’ve heard of it, didn’t offend me greatly. I disagree with a lot of it - but I’m not about to go protest. It’s [...]

What an amazing speech today by Barack Obama. Even though his competitors are blanketing the web with divisive vitriol, Obama chose to spoke of unity. He took the comments of Reverend Wright on headfirst, and spoke of a reality that most politicians are afraid to discuss.
Tonight I got a comment from someone who [...]

The Jena 6 story is sobering. It reminds everyone that for as advanced as we think our society to be, old bigotries are not non-existent, just put away in the basement, away from the prying eyes of visitors. But just like my cluttered old house, you can’t hide everything. The dust bunnies [...]

Today is my birthday and the best gift I could have received is seeing people stand up for the Jena 6 in massive numbers.
Currently watching the CNN Special Investigation on the Jena 6 and I’m amazed that people don’t understand that you may think there is no racism, and you may think that things are [...]

So tomorrow there’s a march in Jena, Louisiana. I’m very glad that those that are attending, aren’t “staying the hell home”. I wish I could be with them because what’s going on in Jena is true racism. So many people play the race card when it isn’t warranted. Not to say, [...]