Posts Tagged ‘tea party’

Be still and know that God is you

Be still and know that God is you
When we peer into the unknown our eyes are watching God, novelist Zora Neale Hurston might say. As I said my friend, the Miami businessman, Dave Williams, sees things differently than other people. He says this is because he is a space alien. He said that black folk did not come out to vote in the 2010...
November 5th, 2010 | Politics | Read More

One nation under a groove

One nation under a groove
I attended Saturday’s One Nation Working Together rally.  Truth be told, there were too many speakers droning on about a mash-up of progressive causes from green jobs to green cards for illegal immigrants.  The rally was scheduled to end at 4:00 p.m., but folks were leaving by the thousands around...
October 6th, 2010 | African Americans, Economics, Employment, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Politics, Racial Equity, Talk About Race | Read More

Disguising themselves as Indians was an act of cowardice

Disguising themselves as Indians was an act of cowardice
There are two words in the following paragraph that jump out at most students of Native American history, but are probably impervious to the ardent participants of the Tea Party movement. The two words appeared in a New York Times article titled “The Founding Fathers Versus the Tea Party” by Ron...
October 6th, 2010 | American Indians, Featured, US | Read More

God made me do it

God made me do it
Originally published on Center for American Progress blog Race and Beyond, So now we know what the Tea Party stands for and who stands behind it. Until this past weekend, the various factions of what’s collectively known as the Tea Party struggled to define who they are and what they represent....
August 31st, 2010 | Featured, Glenn Beck, Talk About Race | Read More

Why the tea party is good for America

Why the tea party is good for America
Late last year, few could have predicted that Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown would return Massachusetts to the red column after decades awash in blue. Even fewer could have foreseen primary victories for Sharron Angle in Nevada, Rand Paul in Kentucky, Raul Labrador in Idaho, Mo Brooks in Alabama,...
June 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Politics, US | Read More

Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses the current political landscape (Part 1)

Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses the current political landscape (Part 1)
The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality,...
June 2nd, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

What really separates the Tea Party from the Black Panther Party

What really separates the Tea Party from the Black Panther Party
I was three years old when I watched my father, mother, and three-week-old baby brother nearly murdered in a hail of bullets during a police raid on our home in September 1973. Robert Seth Hayes My father, Robert Seth Hayes, was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and ever since that day some...
May 26th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

Black leaders must seize the moment

Black leaders must seize the moment
The National Action Network held its 12th annual convention last week in New York City. I attended the first day, but missed the black leadership forum, “Measuring the Movement.” Broadcast live on TV One, the forum was “designed to determine and commit to significant and measurable goals that...
April 20th, 2010 | African Americans, Economics, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

The last Black people in America, Part II

The last Black people in America, Part II
Originally posted on Psychology Today Does the election of Barack Obama mark a major shift in the Western World from the Faustian dream of always having more? Remember old Dr. Faust, the mad genius who was driven by an insatiable striving for worldly knowledge, power, and wealth, even at the cost...
April 19th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

Divide and conquer will no longer work

Divide and conquer will no longer work
Often the criticism that has been laid by some members of the black community at the feet of other members of the black community who have openly criticized President Obama for not embracing or publicly acknowledging the need for a black agenda is that the criticism is misplaced and inappropriate...
March 31st, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

The last white people in America, part II

The last white people in America, part II
In early 2009, groups composed of the most tattered refugees from John McCain’s 2008 Presidential election defeat gathered in various places around the country. Those of us who were willing to admit the truth,  knew all along the Teabaggers, as these groups came to be called, were not protesting...
March 26th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

Election of the first black president, a license to print hate

Election of the first black president, a license to print hate
The first nine months of Barack Obama’s presidency have witnessed accomplishments (pulling the economy back from the brink) and disappointments (the broken promises to the gay and lesbian community). If you are of a certain age, you have seen this strange and often dispiriting first-year blend of callousness,...
October 12th, 2009 | Culture, Pop culture | Read More