…We believe just as strongly that Mrs. Clinton will be making a terrible mistake — for herself, her party and for the nation — if she continues to press her candidacy through negative campaigning with disturbing racial undertones. We believe it would also be a terrible mistake if she launches a fight over the disqualified [...]

I don’t believe that Rev. Jeremiah Wright intentionally kicked off the Jeremiah Wright Show Tour to deliberately “hurt” Barack Obama. Now, I don’t think Wright cared if his spectacle had that effect, but I don’t believe that was Wright’s primary reason for exploding out of silence now. What I see is that Rev.Wright saw his [...]

From The United Church of Christ website:
Jeremiah Wright to be interviewed by Bill Moyers
In what will be his first interview since snippets of his preaching became a central issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. will speak publicly to veteran journalist and fellow UCC member [...]

We are all so much more than sound bites. And I would say judging by Obama’s latest poll numbers, the public is becoming more savvy about how television news divisions twist information to create whatever impression they most want you to have. Never forget that. There is no neutrality in the news business. Each news [...]

Pastor Rod Parsley yells at the top of his lungs protesting “black genocide.”

Whooo. Can you imagine the Fox news loop if Jeremiah Wright had spoken this sermon in the exact same way?
Big Thanks to n-2-me-i-c for passing this on to us!

Religion sure makes for unexpected allies.

(Huckabee starts at 3:39)

You can’t hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do,” Huckabee says. “It’s interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what … Wright said, when they all were all [...]

How’s he going to do it? How will Barack Obama reconcile the off-putting excerpts of Jeremiah Wright’s fire breathing oratory with his own peaceful, easy feeling vision of bringing our country together beyond the barriers that have existed since Plymouth Rock?
I think it’s impossible.
Barack Obama’s initial wishy-washy and overly parsed response to Wright’s most [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.
Call me a wimp [...]

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.
I like to think [...]

Contributor Carole McDonnell’s short stories and essays appear online and in print, in speculative fiction, ethnic, and Christian publications. She lives in New York with her husband, two sons, and their pets. Wind Follower, published by Juno Books, is Carole’s first novel. Her voice adds plenty to our discussion, so I welcome Carole and her [...]

And a happy holiday season to all who celebrate in any kind of positive way. May the goodwill expressed at this time of year reach each and every one of you.
And as you sit down to your meal tonight, and every night for that matter, please take a moment to send a prayer or positive [...]

Contributor Carole McDonnell’s short stories and essays appear online and in print, in speculative fiction, ethnic, and Christian publications. She lives in New York with her husband, two sons, and their pets. Wind Follower, published by Juno Books, is Carole’s first novel. Her voice adds plenty to our discussion, so I welcome Carole and her [...]

Mitt Romney was ready for it, THE question. For months now, those who chronicle politics have been clamoring for IT to be asked.
Until 1978, the so-called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an officially racist organization. Mitt Romney was an adult in 1978. We need to know how he justified this to [...]