Last night on CNN’s Piers Morgan show, the host grilled Ken Hanson, the leader of the Buckeye Firearms Foundation that helped raise money for George Zimmerman to rearm himself. Morgan asked Hanson, “What if it happens again?” Morgan continued, “What if Trayvon Martin’s older brother is walking in the same area in a few months […]
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Al Sharpton Questions Bill O'Reilly's African-American Expertise (VIDEO)
Looking Inward to Prevent the Next Trayvon
Spiking the Football: White America's Refusal To Come To Grips with Race
In my recent piece on President Obama’s press briefing about race following the Zimmerman verdict, I wrote: “There is not one white person alive, myself included, who can even remotely begin to understand what Barack Obama was saying Friday afternoon; who can appreciate what it must be like to be profiled as suspicious for simply […]
A Moment of Candor and An Opportunity for Reflection: The Obama Race Speech (VIDEO)
Yesterday afternoon, Barack Obama took time to address the nation not as the President but as an African-American and it was one of the more heartfelt and emotional moments of his presidency. Speaking primarily off the cuff and without a prepared speech, the President spoke from his heart. For a man who has carefully chosen […]
Van Jones vs. Newt Gingrich Over Trayvon Martin (VIDEO)
This morning on CNN’s Newsday future Crossfire co-hosts, Van Jones and Newt Gingrich went toe to toe over the Trayvon Martin case and what it means on a larger scale. In typical conservative fashion, Gingrich found a way to bring President Obama into the fray by pointing out that his “hometown” of Chicago had 350 […]