Wow. Oh, yes he did. (Mediaite): Former South Carolina Governor and Fox News contributor Mark Sanford wandered off the Appalachian Trail again Sunday morning when, in yet another completely isolated example of a Republican being totally-not-racist even though he sounds racist, said that President Obama is going to “come out and throw a lot of spears” at Tuesday’s upcoming debate. Gov. Sanford first praised [...]

When you have a presidential candidate that blows so badly that George W. Bush is outpolling him in favorability ratings and who writes off 47% of the country, you’re a party that needs to win not on ideas or cult of personality, but stealing and suppressing the vote. Take what’s going on in Florida, an [...]

“. . . on the first day of January . . . all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” – President Abraham Lincoln, preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 [...]

I thought Rev. Monroe’s take was a good addition to the dialog on this topic. Click here for my earlier thoughts on it. –Pam African Americans have worked hard to get the vote and to get a man of African descent in the White House. In 2008 we came out in unprecedented numbers with Obama [...]

I guess it depends on who the reporter is and the interviewees. When the President came out in support of marriage equality there was the predicted flurry of articles about the impact of his statement (which still indicated his support of leaving the decision to discriminate up to the states). It was expected that some [...]

Sometimes I simply want to give up - will this country ever rid itself of the idiocy and evil of racism? Here’s another sad tale of self-segregation because apparently some of the St. Martinville, Louisiana’s, Class of 1973 have no interest in celebrating with non-white classmates. According to reports, a reception is going to be held at [...]

UPDATE: Crist will speak at the Dem Convention. The Beltway tongue-waggers are pooh-poohing  Republican former Florida governor Charlie Crist‘s endorsement of Barack Obama, but the accompanying message is clear — the grasp that the fringe has on the party is dooming the GOP. Crist: [A]n element of their party has pitched so far to the [...]

Gabrielle Christina Victoria “Gabby” Douglas is one of this year’s Olympic darlings. As a member of the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team, Gabby is the first African American gymnast and woman of color, in Olympic history, to win gold medals in the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics. When she won the gold [...]

Poor Gabby Douglas. She is rightfully celebrating the fact that she set a historical precedent of Olympic athletic achievement as a woman of color — the first black woman to take the all-around individual title in gymnastics. But in the wake of her win, she is mocked by members of her own community on social [...]

And a bonus: Mittens brought in his own black folks to cheer him on and rub elbows with instead of the NAACP rank-and-file. Mitt Romney’s speech at the NAACP conference today keeps on giving. There was a brouhaha over this as a “Sister Souljah” moment as he was booed for 15 seconds by the crowd when [...]