The Obama administration is wrestling with whether or not to get minimally involved in Syria, meaning there will be limited military strikes, letting Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad know that the United States does not approve of his apparently having used sarin gas against his own people. Fourteen hundred people were killed. While it is annoying… Read More The Power of Guilt
The president finally said something about the outcome of the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial. He spoke honestly about what it is to be African-American, specifically an African-American male, in this country. He said that, 35 years ago, he could have been Trayvon Martin. And he was and is right. Many whites really do not… Read More The President, Racism, and Trayvon Martin
Abigail Thernstrom, vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote an article for CNN.com that shows a remarkable ignorance and insensitivity about the problem of race for African-Americans in this country. (http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/15/opinion/thernstrom-trayvon-martin-obama/index.html?hpt=hp_t4) The author of Voting Rights – and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for… Read More Abigail Thernstrom Wrong on “Obama’s Mistake in Trayvon Martin Case”
I expected a slew of criticism about President Obama’s commencement address to the graduates of Morehouse College this weekend, but I was taken aback by Boyce Watkins‘ statement that President Obama had “no moral authority” to say some of the words he spoke. Citing what he says is the president’s failure to enact effective policy… Read More The President’s Moral Authority
I heard today that some people who were affected by Hurricane Sandy are still without power, without electricity, without heat. I heard that as I shivered in my car which was warming up. It was 11 degrees outside in Columbus, Ohio, and at least that cold in the Rockaway section of Queens. Some businesses in… Read More Sweating Joy in Spite of Suffering
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