"Whites-Only" PA Pool Draws Protesters, International Criticism

The Washington Post today is focusing attention on a pool in Pennsylvania that told Black children they couldn't swim there because . . . they're Black. Although lawsuits are certainly an option in this case, I actually think that the protests these children are...

Simon and Schuster Viewing Truth About Kos (DailyKos) Project?

Site Meter Records Simon and Schuster Interestin Truth About Kos (DailyKos) Blog ProjectThis post is an acknowledgement of the interest that one anonymous user at Simon and Schuster has expressed in learning about the "Truth About Kos (DailyKos)" Project, which I...

Has the afrosphere Been Infiltrated by CIA Agents and/or Assets?

Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos), the Francis L. Holland Blog and Pam'sHouseBlend.This post is in response to a post I read over at Jack and Jill Politics, entitled, "Jill [Contee] is Headed to Blogging While Brown on Friday."I'd be really interested to know...

EasyWidget Leads to Petition on Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation

Click here to get the HTML code for the above EasyWidget.Progressive are strongly supporting "wise Latina woman" Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination for the US Supreme Court.  For example, African American blogger Atty. Francis L. Holland, whose previous efforts toward...

CIA-Trained Blogger Disbursing Money to "Progressives"

Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) blog. "Overseas Private Investment Council Press Release (Full Text)"Some of us have wondered what Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) learned at the CIA during his two year "training" period there. SourceWatch.Org Covers...

New York Times Supports White Supremacist Theory of "Race"

The New York Times and the white supremacist group Storm Front share a belief that there are significant and fundamental "racial" differences between color and linguistic groups based upon and residing in their genetic heritage.  Today, for example, Ian...

It's Repugnant When the Media Describes Torture as Merely "Harsh"

The most disgusting and omnipresent cliché in journalism right now is "harsh" as a word to describe "torture, as in "harsh interrogation" (WaPost)and"harsh methods" (NYT).Look up the phrase"harsh interrogation"and you'll find it 247,000 times at Google. Look up "harsh...

What Would It Cost Obama to Prosecute the Torturers?

The title of my recent article on Obama and the torture memos was an example of hyperbolic sarcasm.  The article made it clear that the title "Obama Should Pardon the War Crimes Committed Under Bush" - was not intended as a statement of my opinion, but rather as a...

Obama Should Boycott Anti-"Racism" Conference, Theory of "Races"

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.Many, many but not all Blacks, including Rep. Barbara Lee, (D-Calif.), are angry that President Barack Obama is boycotting a UN World Conference on Racism. I'm...

Obama Should Pardon the War Crimes Committed Under Bush

'Let's Forgive and Forget' President Barack Obama has released the "Torture Memos" that make it clear that it was the policy of the Bush Administration, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumseld, the military and the CIA to torture prisoners, even though...

Black Blogger's HIT GOP Chair, Micheal Steele Hard!

It appears that GOP Chairman, Micheal Steele is not getting much love from black bloggers. Although conservative black bloggers seem to be supporting Micheal Steele, a majority of moderate, progressive and liberal black bloggers in the US have other things to say. As an...

Clinton's Long Goodbye? Black Bloggers Ask Hillary Clinton, To Concede, She ...

"The Afrosphere Action Coalition, a network of black bloggers, has organized a "Day of Blogging for Voter Justice." Their goal "is to urge and warn Hillary Clinton that we simply will not condone - now or in November - the game she is playing with the Democratic Party.""

Black Blogosphere Proves Potent Political Force

" Black Blogosphere Proves Potent Force in Story of Race in the New South "" Here is a great interview on Chicago Tribune's Howard Witt by the Maynard Institute. I personally consider Howard Witt a blue eyed soul brother. Check out the article, he has a lot to say...

2007 A Banner Year For Black Bloggers

NPR: Best of 'News & Notes' 2007 and Black (African-American) Bloggers The Best of 'News & Notes' 2007Even with my controversial comments about black women and interracial marriages,...

AfroSpear Bloggers Launch Freedom Technology Christmas Campaign

AfroSpear bloggers are encouraging Blacks to give "the gift of technology" to their children, parents and others, to empower them to communicate in the Internet Age, with recommended gifts of computers, digicams, broadband and open source software.This Christmas, the same...

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