People sometimes feel pressured to choose one identity over another. Kamala Harris, who is multiracial – her mother is from India and her father is a Black immigrant from Jamaica – illustrates the complexity of defining identity.
(Black America Web) — Perhaps it’s time for President Barack Obama to re-read his speeches and confront the issue of race head-on. A series of high-profile, racially explosive issues are causing deep divisions among some blacks and whites at a time when Obama was hoping that more Americans would embrace the notion of cultural tolerance during […]
(The Grio) — President Obama has become a racial enigma. When it comes to the black/white divide in America, Obama is believed to be everything from Clarence Thomas to Malcolm X, depending on whom you ask. The right-wing identifies Obama as a radical black man who hates white people, and the progressive black community sees […]
( WIJA.com) — Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she wants to discuss racial issues with President Obama, who’s “not someone who has experienced some of the things I’ve experienced in life.” But she also said on morning news shows she feels there is no need for Obama to apologize for her wretched week, […]
(News One) — There is no issue that is more volatile, passionate, confusing, perplexing and complex than the reality of race in America. Whether we are discussing the motives of the Tea Party, the legal ramifications of the new Arizona immigration law, the impact of the Supreme Court deciding a reverse discrimination case involving firefighters, or […]