I was in a discussion this weekend about the worst-case scenarios for election night in November; the situations and outcomes that should have been debated and considered now. Lately, the GOP in Georgia has been taking heat in my community because African American (AA) candidates Dr. Deborah Honeycutt and Melvin Everson couldn’t make it out [...]
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Election Night: Worst-Case Scenarios
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, austin scott, Blacks, blue dogs, Conservatives, democrats, Georgia, Jim Marshall, Michelle Obama, republicans, sanford bishop, tea party on September 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
10 Questions for 2010: Political Slates, Candidate Relativity
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, cbc, politics on September 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
9. Political slates: anachronisms or useful tools? In the time of new media and 24-hour news channels, we don’t need political parties telling us to vote for a block of candidates. While that dated process is easier (and unfortunately very effective) for the party, sharp voters can decide which candidates to support based on the [...]
10 Questions for 2010: Blue Dogs, GOP candidates, Political Journalism
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, blue dogs, CNN, democrats, Fox News, msnbc, Obama, republicans on September 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
3. Are some Blue Dogs sidestepping the political heat? First, I have an original Blue Dog pin and will never sell it on Ebay. Blue Dogs are a unique breed of moderate to conservative Democrats, but they aren’t Republicans. If you think about it, the Democrat Party looks like America with diverse groups at the [...]
Henrietta Lacks: Unwitting Medical Pioneer
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, black history, Blacks, cancer, education, healthcare, Henrietta Lacks on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Henrietta Lacks’ contributions to medical research are amazing but were unknown to her when she died in Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. Taken without her permission, her cancer cells or HeLa cells have growth in lab settings better than any cell lines and are central to many medical breakthroughs while her family is uninsured. “The [...]
Obama and Cameo: Don’t Be Lonely
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, albany, Black college, Blacks, blue dogs, Cameo, Conservatives, Georgia, healthcare, Martha’s Vineyard, Obama on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama should listen to the jam band Cameo during his Martha’s Vineyard vacation. Of course, he must hit the Black Dog Tavern and cop a t-shirt and cap. An old friend sent me a Black Dog hat and people in south Georgia wonder if the “Black Dog” is an African-American sub-group inside the Blue [...]
Young, Black & Republican: documentary
Posted in African Americans, politics, Republican, tagged African Americans, blue dogs, Conservatives, republicans on August 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I am a moderate Democrat but a young conservative brother from Atlanta who works for a South Carolina GOP member of congress sent me the short documentary “Young, Black & Republican.” As a kid reading Black Enterprise magazine and watching Tony Brown’s Journal on PBS, I remember this pro-business, self-determination type African-American Republican. Hell, every [...]
Southern Politics: Check Please
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, Conservatives, democrats, Georgia, GOP, Obama on August 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The field for the general election is in place and our community needs to check and double-check every aspect of our situation relative to political realities. The candidates’ records, actions and potential must be checked along with their staffing histories and efforts regarding whole community representation. When we watch the news reports, we always look [...]
Obama, Roots and the AFL-CIO
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, chicago, labor, Obama, teachers, unions on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s bittersweet being part of a group or organization. From college fraternities to street gangs to labor unions to political parties, group membership requires that you act collectively at times. If you get a flat tire in the middle of the night, you can call a brother but sometimes you will be getting up at [...]
Southern Black Conservatives
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, blue dogs, Georgia, GOP, Honeycutt on August 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Are things uncomfortable at home for African Americans in the South who are moderate to conservative? Booker Rising, the premiere conservative Black political blog, has a great quiz in their margin. The quiz would indicate that a surprising number of Black voters down here are actually moderate if not conservative. Then, what’s the problem? The [...]
NAACP and South Georgia
Posted in Convention, Georgia, tagged African Americans, Blacks, Georgia, NAACP, Obama, tea party, tifton on August 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The NAACP Scholarship Banquet in Tifton, Georgia, “advanced” me profoundly last night but then again, they say the hardheaded never learned. In college, we were too radical to be involved with this organization. It was all about Public Enemy’s lyrics like “Mandela..cell dweller…Thatcher, you should tell her.” In retrospect, the grassroots chapters of the NAACP [...]
Obamacrats: Get Smart and Scrappy
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, blue dogs, Congress, democrats, moderates, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Sherrod, tea party, youth on July 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I don’t care what anyone says; President Obama is exactly the president “candidate Obama” said he would be. The problem is people don’t know how to listen. He isn’t big on party politics because he didn’t spend that much time in the national arena before ascending to the top. That’s why he is constantly looking [...]
Sarah Palin and Mrs. Shirley Sherrod: Take This Job and…..
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Fox News, Obama, palin, tea party, usda on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If Sarah Palin is Mamma Grizzly, I am naming Mrs. Shirley Sherrod the Brown Thrasher because since Palin and I were college students, Mrs. Sherrod has been fighting the good fight patiently. Notice how you can’t say “Shirley” or Sherrod anymore than you can say “Rosa Parks,” “Lena Horne” or “Nancy Wilson”—that’s how we do [...]
NAACP and Tea Party: With Malice Toward None
Posted in African Americans, Georgia, politics, tagged African Americans, Congress, Conservatives, NAACP, Obama, tea party on July 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This drama about the Tea Party movement and the NAACP has me thinking. Are racists at Tea Parties? Yes. Are racists at NAACP rallies? Of course. If you get a big group of people together, heaven only knows who is in the crowd. Anyone who says Blacks can’t be racists is delusional. Is that racism [...]
Favorite Sermons: Get Fed
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, faith, politics on July 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My favorite church sermons are on my mind because I must make some major life decisions soon. While I am no stranger to sin, the pastors get the same attention I gave the professors in school. Like I tell the kids on my block, you might as well learn something if you are going to be at [...]
Political Comfort Level
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, blue dogs, palin, republicans, troops on July 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
When you grow up in the diverse South, you should learn to put yourself in the other guy’s shoes, walk in his moccasins or generally imagine life and government from his perspective. No one wanted to be slaves, current senior citizens should be barricaded in their homes from fear of young thugs and American foreign [...]
Ghosts In The Georgia Political Machine
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, Georgia, Herman Cain, Jesse Jackson, Jim Marshall, low information voters, Macon, Obama, tifton on May 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Election season can be awkward because the process doesn’t always allow the flexibility for voters to express themselves. We have primaries, party slates and candidates who make assumptions from their election results. I voted in the Republican primary six years ago because I wanted to support innovative Senate candidate Herman Cain but I skipped most [...]
Cease Corp and Grand Torino: Michelle Obama and Clint Eastwood
Posted in Conservative, politics, tagged African Americans, Conservatives, Eastwood, gangs, Michael Steele, Michelle Obama, Obama on April 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Clint Eastwood’s film Grand Torino got to me last night. Seeing a veteran and retired autoworker single-handedly protect his community from domestic terrorists (thugs and gangs) reminded me of JFK’s question about what can you do for your country. In the last chapter of his life, Mr. Walter Kowalski was teaching negative and positive youth [...]
Michael Steele: African Americans Have No Reason To Vote for Republicans
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, GOP, Michael Steele, Pelosi, RNC on April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Let me get this right: Michael Steele said that there is no reason for Blacks to vote for Republicans. Chairman of the RNC Michael Steele, the brother with the nice ties–nice neckties and evidentially nice cultural ties to my community for telling speaking his mind to us. That’s the Michael Steele who we moderates supported as [...]
Helen Blocker Adams: Personal Responsibility, Limited Government and the Tea Party Movement
Posted in African Americans, augusta, Georgia, politics, tagged African Americans, Augusta Tea Party, Blacks, bridging divides, Conservatives, diversity, Limited Government, Personal Responsibility, tea party on April 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I had the honor of submitting a Guest Column that ran in today’s Augusta Chronicle. We can all embrace limited government and personal responsibility By Helen Blocker-Adams Guest Columnist Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Why is there so much resistance among a large number of African-Americans to the idea of limited government? Is it because of [...]
Erykah Badu and Texas
Posted in African Americans, politics, tagged African Americans, Badu, hip hop, music, tea party, texas on March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Like Jill Scott, Angie Stone and Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu is a straight-up artist who puts a message in her music and compels us to think. Her new song “Window Seat” blew me away and even included a nod to blues guitar great Lightning Hopkins. I am proud to say that Hopkins has been featured on the [...]
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