John Hope Bryant On What Black Folks Need In 2011

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(Moving into 2011) what black folks need now, is not to be told that somehow President Obama is going to save them. President Obama is a brilliant man, but number one, he sort of has his hands full, and number two, it’s not President Obama’s job to save black folks. That was my mother’s job. Just like everyone else in America, we are going to have to figure out a way to save ourselves, and we can do this. CONTINUE....

For Obama Foes, It's Not the Plan - It's the Man

By: Tonyaa Weathersbee

The script that Obama-hating, town hall disruptors are reading from is an old one.

They’re just upgrading it with some fresh hate.

Their forebears, in fact, wrote that script in the late 1950s – the last time that a black man, Martin Luther King Jr., was making headway in changing an oppressive system that wasn’t working for millions of Americans.

That system was segregation. Those Americans were black folks. And once the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional, they did what racists do.

They stoked fears by making stuff up.

For Obama Foes, It's Not the Plan - It's the Man....

Save Pat Buchanan!

Why the jolly, red-faced Republican hitman is delivering the best news for black folks on television.

By: Adam Serwer

Pat Buchanan is a man of many bigotries. He’s praised Hitler’s “courage,” argued that black folks should be grateful that slavery took them out of Africa, fretted that Hispanic immigrants would cause the U.S. to “lose the American southwest,” compared homosexuality to alcoholism and appeared several times on a “pro-white” radio show. Buchanan’s incendiary views prompted Jamison Foser of Media Matters to ask, “What would Pat Buchanan have to say to get himself fired from MSNBC?

Save Pat Buchanan!....