Contributor Carole McDonnell’s short stories and essays appear online and in print, in speculative fiction, ethnic, and Christian publications. Wind Follower, published by Juno Books, is Carole’s first novel. You will usually find Carole here each Sunday when she serves up observations about race from the perspective of a socially tolerant, observant Christian. But today, she’s got other ideas. Let us know what you think.
Ah me! It’s tough walking the borderlands in an either/or world. We humans belong to so many different tribes, religions, classes, and causes. If we are …

I’ve been fighting a bug for the past several days and on Sunday afternoon the bug won. Fever, bodyaches, raspy scratchy throat all of it. I’m hopped up on cold and flu meds so the hundred or so posts I’ve written in my mind were probably hallucinations. But I do have a couple of longer posts coming starting tomorrow and Andrew’s got a fun piece in the gate that will most likely run Friday.
I am not thinking completely straight at the moment, but I am clear about urging each and …

An excerpt from her New York Times editorial ‘A President Like My Father’:
Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.
We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Obama. It isn’t that the other candidates are …

Tennessee
Arrested Development
Now I see the importance of history
Why people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom made in vain
By brothers on the corner playin ghetto games
I ask you lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightment of all my folks
He said cuz I set myself on a quest for truth
And he was there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty…

I have been feeling pretty down about the state of things today.
This made me feel a little better (double click on the picture to play):

My man’s ‘fro toward the end even made me smile. Nice job, Nez.

**UPDATED LINK** – Hillary Clinton says “Obama was looking for a fight.”
My trainer and I had a good laugh yesterday afternoon. He mentioned that he was excited about Monday night television. I said, “Me, too!” He then said, “Yeah. ‘American Gladiators’is on.” I chuckled back, “Well, I meant the Democratic debates. But there may not be too much difference.”
Who knew?
I tell you, I watched both. And despite the extreme muscle mass and snarling on display during “American Gladiators,” there was far more authentic aggression displayed by Barack Obama and …

hat tip – Nah Right

Excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s The Drum Major Instinct speech, delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on 4 February 1968.
*UPDATE – Click on the highlighted text below to hear Dr. King speaking*
The other day I was saying, I always try to do a little converting when I’m in jail. And when we were in jail in Birmingham the other day, the white wardens and all enjoyed coming around the cell to talk about the race problem. And they were showing us where we were so wrong …

Contributor Carole McDonnell’s short stories and essays appear online and in print, in speculative fiction, ethnic, and Christian publications. Wind Follower, published by Juno Books, is Carole’s first novel. Each Sunday Carole serves up observations about race from the perspective of a socially tolerant, observant Christian. Let us know what you think.
Whenever I use the phrase, “The Great Might Have Been,” I use it to talk about one of my college crushes, a cute auburn-haired bisexual actor whom I was passionately in love with for about ten years. Now that …

Do you love what you feel?
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
“I wanna dance all, I wanna dance all, I wanna dance all niiiiight!”
Turn your speakers up.

**Post Name Changed and Info. Updated**
**New** Dratz…maybe it doesn’t save that much energy. But it IS cool looking.
From an email I just received:
If Google had a black screen, taking into account the huge number of times this search engine is used, 750 mega watts/hour of energy per year would be saved. In recognition of this fact, Google has created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with lower energy consumption. Bookmark it today and pass it …

I imagine this place, All About Race.com, to be a spot where we can open our hearts and speak our minds to each other in ways that would be downright impossible in the whir of day-to-day life.
So I am asking for you input, in all sincerity:

What were they thinking?
I don’t understand it.
Seriously. If you find Golfweek Magazine’s choice to feature a noose on its cover, with the verbage ‘Caught in a noose Tilghman slips up and the Golf Channel can’t wriggle free,’ anything less than a big “F-CK …

A little “hoof in mouth” disease caught up with rancher William Farr on Wednesday night.
A Greeley businessman apologized Wednesday after a joke about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama fell flat during the National Western Stock Show’s annual Citizen of the West banquet.
William R. Farr was pretending to read telegrams congratulating this year’s award recipient, University of Colorado President Hank Brown, when he pulled out a piece of paper and said, “I have a telegram from the White House.”
Then he added, “They’re going to have to change the name of that building …

Standing on the side of the road, I’ve been contemplating the direction of All About Race and I feel it’s time for a content lane change. We’re not changing direction, just maybe a different route. I want to see more trees.
By Monday, I think, I’ll have it all worked out in my head and hopefully here on the screen too.

I am tired already. Tired of politics of division descending droplet by droplet from the murky cloud also known as the mainstream media (MSM.) A former Democrat and Republican, I am now registered Independent or ‘refuse to state’ in my neck of the woods. I am skeptical about all of the candidates. But, my joy overcame my cynicism the night Barack Obama won Iowa. It just felt good. Watching the caucus coverage was exciting and I believed we, as a nation, were about to embark on something fresh.
Instead, less than …