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McCain-Palin vs Obama-Biden
By bringing up McCain's age you are opening the door for the opposition to play race cards. Both topics are protected civil rights and should be avoided. A person will die when it's his/her time -whether its due to health related issues, accidents, or Moose meat. US citizens should never be judged by race, age, gender, or religion. This ...
Posted to Today's Papers by TxCitizen on August 30, 2008
My Samoan Mother Does Not Need Affirmative Action
An AA surgeon, who got into medical school with lower aptitude, grades, test scores and abilities, should operate on my Samoan mother, even though there are better-qualified physicians! Besides your Native grandmother makes you a bigger victim than me with a Mexican (Aztec) mother, so you need AA more. However, I am especially needy, because my ...
Posted to XX Factor by Ralph7 on June 28, 2008
On Racism and Sexism
I know discussing the R. Kelly trial in this threat might seem misplaced, but hear me out. That verdict and the history of the trial was emblematic of how black children and black females are treated in this society. Anyone who thinks that R. Kelly would have been able to evade trial for 6 and a half years had the victim in this case been white ...
Posted to XX Factor by NewYorkNewYork on June 14, 2008
Said it, Meant it: bridges among feminists?
In response to Marjorie Valbrun’s thoughtful piece about the eroding relations between black women Obama supporters and white women Clinton supporters, I can’t help wondering whether these difficult conversations about how sexism and racism undermine equal opportunities aren’t a necessary first step in a modern conversation about race relations. ...
Posted to XX Factor by L Newfarmer on May 28, 2008
Re: To the Black Women who say we aren't sisters
I too, have grappled with the varied allegiances (I'm a Black American women) that I've had to navigate this election. But, there is more of a disconnect between black women and women of other races than between black women and black men, because Blacks tend to have all experienced racism on some level, regardless of social class or educational ...
Posted to XX Factor by RatherBeShopping on March 26, 2008
Why Hillary Clinton doesn't need to either
One of the most unproductive conversations to emerge from a year of pseudo-debates and meta-coverage of media meta-coverage has been that of whether it is harder to run for president as a black man or a white woman. The question itself embodies a paradox, since the very thing that makes it so urgent to ask (that these are the first ever female or ...
Posted to Politics by scotevan on March 21, 2008
Speaking of Mediocre? Calling this Document Hot is Silly.
Dear Bonnie; As a corporate law firm partner specializing in civil rights since 1985, I fail to see anything whatever remarkable about young Obama's utterly accurate comments from 1990. Race discrimination in my profession and in most professions has been well documented and, even in recent studies, it persists, particularly at the hiring ...
Posted to Hot Document by john adkisson on March 19, 2008
It's Ours If We Unite; But Who Have We Become?
I confess at the outset that I am an Obama supporter. I suppose all active democrats are now supporters of one of the candidates; it is difficult to be neutral. I have made the argument for weeks that Obama cannot lose and that superdelegates should move now to Obama to avoid further bleeding. Before this week, the bleeding I was referring to ...
Posted to Politics by john adkisson on March 18, 2008
True/False Quiz for Geraldine and Hillary.
Here is a true or false quiz for Senator Clinton and Geraldine Ferarro. Hint: All the answers are TRUE. 1. Obama would not be where he is if he had not been editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review and attracted national attention as a spectacular orator with a unifying message. T/F 2. Obama would not be where he is without putting together ...
Posted to Politics by john adkisson on March 13, 2008
Something Rotten In Hillaryland
I have been so enthusiastic about politics this year as have most Democrats. I haven't even been much bothered by the occasional insensitive remark or deceptive argument. But two things are truly bothering me tonight about America and the Democratic primaries. First, it is plain that in many rural, southern, and conservative enclaves (such as ...
Posted to Politics by john adkisson on March 11, 2008

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