It’s heartening to learn that some NFL players are turning in their guns. Since Jovan Belcher’s murder-suicide last week, several African American NFL players are correctly starting to reflect on how loaded weapons can destroy lives. “In the last seven days, at least seven players around the league have gone to their league security officers […]
I hope Rhonda Lee gets her job back. In fact, she never should have lost her job over a short Afro hairstyle in the first place. Lee, an African American meteorologist, was recently fired from the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, La., because she responded to a racial remark posted by a viewer on the station’s […]
I was sipping a beer inside Cowboys Stadium and waiting for the kickoff when I overheard two African American women criticizing Robert Griffin III, the superstar rookie quarterback of the Washington Washington Football Team. The emotional beat down of Griffin was harsh and had absolutely nothing to do with football but everything to do with […]
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. owes his loyal constituents something he hasn’t offered them lately: Honesty. Speculation over Jackson’s health, the investigation involving alleged campaign finance misconduct and his whereabouts has reached a fever pitch in Chicago and even Jackson’s most steadfast admirers are demanding that the clandestine congressman explain his mysterious five-month absence from […]
President Barack Obama showed true grit. Obama stood tall behind the podium at the White House Wednesday and defended U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice like a little sister who was being picked on by schoolyard bullies. The bullies, however, are Republicans. “If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should […]
The racial hatred toward President Barack Obama never ends. It was bad enough that conservative blowhard Ann Coulter called Obama a “retard,” but now that Obama has soundly thrashed Mitt Romney to re-claim the White House, angry bigots are coming out of the shadows. Take Denise Helms, a 22-year-old California woman who was living in […]
CHICAGO – In the final days leading up to Election Day, a friend told me that God wasn’t finished with President Barack Obama because he has four more years of important work to do on behalf of the American people. I believe she was right. And I also believe that many African Americans feel the […]
After hundreds of political rallies and thousands of campaign speeches, Election Day has finally arrived and here’s my prediction: President Barack Obama will win re-election to the White House Tuesday – despite the superstitious so-called Washington Football Team Rule.” Since the NFL’s Washington Football Team moved to Washington in 1937, the rule has held true: […]
For President Barack Obama, good governance is also good politics. Four days before Election Day, Obama showed solid leadership during a national crisis. While Hurricane Sandy’s deadly storm devastated coastal towns and left much of New York City and Long Island, New York waterlogged and without power, Obama was the nation’s anchor in the storm. […]