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Do Indian Country voters have the president’s back?

September 21, 2010 Comments Off

By any objective measure Barack Obama has been the most engaged and effective president on American Indian issues since at least since Richard Nixon. You could even make the case that Obama is better than Nixon because there has been so much successful legislation and Executive Branch action in less than two years. A quick [...]

Red, Brown, and Blue: How our definition of whiteness has changed with each new wave of immigration

September 20, 2010 Comments Off

Destination Casa Blanca‘s host Ray Suarez takes a look at a new history of immigration, and the opposition, in America…. One St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, back when I was working as a television reporter there in the 1980s, I wandered up and down the famous parade route on Dearborn Street and asked people in [...]

Canadian government apologizes to Inuit for the past, while screwing Barriere Lake Algonquins in the present

August 31, 2010 Comments Off

During the 1950s, the Canadian federal government enacted policies to relocate Inuit families from their homes in Inukjuak, located in northern Quebec, to the remote High Arctic areas of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord. Their traditional homeland provided all they needed to sustain, including plenty of caribou and other game to hunt, which was a [...]

Glenn Beck’s Attempt to Bastardize Dr. King’s Dream

August 27, 2010 Comments Off

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, [...]

A third party: The choice for the African-American masses

August 16, 2010 Comments Off

In the many months since the 2008 presidential election, an increasing number of those within the African-American community have begun to question whether the electing of the United States first African-American President, Barack Obama, has functioned to yield any significant results in regard to remedying the abject condition of many of the group’s members. Expressions [...]

Rising above the blame: Politics, race and the “racial stalemate”

August 11, 2010 Comments Off

President Obama’s 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech spoke of a country stuck in “a racial stalemate”: stuck in that place “for years”. Yet, in 2010 we are still cemented there. In “Shirley Sherrod: ‘Where are we headed?”, a July 22, 2010 interview conducted by PostPartisian’s Jonathan Capehart, Sherrod says why. She thinks the President [...]

“Docs or Cops?” Domestic violence is a public health issue in Indian Country

August 3, 2010 Comments Off

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s trite to say, “everything is connected.” It’s a phrase that comes up in the context of family, the environment, or perhaps, philosophy. When the subject is reservation violence, however, that same notion could be rewritten as a blunt question: Docs or cops? Cops are getting most of the attention after the [...]

Racial aspects of economy are significant for White House to address

July 28, 2010 Comments Off

After an intense and shameful week of poorly dealing with ex-USDA worker Shirley Sherrod and issues of race, the country is left trying to make sense of where we are and why issues of race seem so hard and intractable. There have been many editorials and stories – many of them very thoughtful. There are [...]

Shirley Sherrod for president

July 26, 2010 Comments Off

Exactly one year ago, I published a book entitled, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. My publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, has decided to re-print in paperback and they’d like me to change the title to “…from Kennedy to Obama” and add a chapter about the President. I’ve been blogging since April 2009 and haven’t [...]

Individual acts and the collapse of Pakistan

July 19, 2010 Comments Off

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Last week, I wrote about an impending civil war in Pakistan, projecting a possible “complete collapse of Pakistan as a recognizable entity,” referring [...]

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