Needless to say it was an interesting year, as usual. Nobody would’ve guessed that an NBA player’s decision to change teams would captivate the nation’s attention and generate so much passion. And nobody would’ve guessed how much power right-wing insane conservative commentators had until the case of a Georgia woman was hastily handled by the […]
Oprah & others show why staying in one career track isn't always a good idea!
The former Agriculture employee is being wooed with a bigger job.
It seems that anyone who even tries to talk about race risks public outrage.
Mmm, Chicken Adobo and more Madame Noire's editors loves this week.
(Salon.com) — People who care about civil rights and racial reconciliation may eventually thank Andrew Breitbart for bringing Shirley Sherrod the global attention she deserves. Really. Her message of racial healing, her insight that the forces of wealth and injustice have always pit “the haves and the have-nots” against each other, whatever their race, is […]
(New York Times) — President Obama on Thursday urged Shirley Sherrod, the black Agriculture Department official whose firing and subsequent offer of rehiring this week renewed a conversation about politics and race, to continue “her hard work on behalf of those in need,” the White House said. Read More…
Obama has clung tightly to the centrist blueprint Bill Clinton laid out for a Democratic presidential candidate to win elections, and to govern after he won.
It’s a travesty, surely. The case of Shirley Sherrod was an embarrassment to all who were involved. The USDA, The NAACP, The White House, and the supreme fools in all of this, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart and FOX News. But as Sherrod remarked to Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, the initial reaction was symptomatic of the […]
Ah, whoops. Now say sorry N.A.A.C.P. and USDA.