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...
opinion by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1385 views | 3 recommendations | 5 comments
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...
opinion by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 143 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
opinion by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 197 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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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...
created by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 212 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
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...
created by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 766 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
opinion by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 318 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
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...
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...
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'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...
opinion by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 601 views | 26 recommendations | 9 comments
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...
opinion by AAPPundit | 2 years ago 131 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"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.""
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Black Blogosphere Proves Potent Force in Story of Race in the New South
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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...
created by AAPPundit | 4 years ago 270 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
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,...
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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...
created by ageorgegal | 4 years ago 403 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment