I attended Saturday’s One Nation Working Together rally. Truth be told, there were too many speakers droning on about a mash-up of progressive causes from green jobs to green cards for illegal immigrants. The rally was scheduled to end at 4:00 p.m., but folks were leaving by the thousands around 3:00 p.m. For me, the [...]
October 6, 2010 / Comments Off / Read More
Originally published on Center for American Progress blog Race and Beyond, So now we know what the Tea Party stands for and who stands behind it. Until this past weekend, the various factions of what’s collectively known as the Tea Party struggled to define who they are and what they represent. The amorphous movement backed [...]
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Rewriting history is one of the many offenses that political conservatives are constantly accusing liberals of committing. But no one is guiltier of this transgression than conservatives themselves, who have a particular fondness for rewriting the history of the civil rights movement, especially their opposition to its most visible leader – Dr. Martin Luther King, [...]
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