Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’

Obama must bring back that magic to the Middle East

Originally published on LinkTV’s Mosaic Blog Will it be a strike against Iran by the U.S. and or Israel? Will there be political upheaval in Egypt after Mubarak’s reign? And will Israel invade Lebanon or Gaza? These are some of the questions that can be heard on the streets of Cairo, Amman,...

August 11th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

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

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...

August 11th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Politics | Read More

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

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...

August 3rd, 2010 | American Indians, Featured, Health | Read More

Is America a Christian nation?

Speaking from the heart of the Muslim world in Turkey’s Cankaya Palace in April 2009, President Barack Obama answered the question with the nuance that has come to characterize his public statements: America, he declared, is “a predominantly Christian nation” but “we do not consider ourselves...

July 31st, 2010 | Featured, Politics | Read More

You cut, I choose: Imagining a brighter racial future

Remember when some people said that Barack Obama’s election meant we had gone post-racial? It really hasn’t turned out that way. In the last 20 months, we’ve heard the Attorney General of the United States say we’re a “nation of cowards” about race. We’ve seen a movement of people...

July 29th, 2010 | Featured, Talk About Race, US, Visions 2042 | Read More

Racial aspects of economy are significant for White House to address

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. ...

July 28th, 2010 | Economics, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US | Read More

Shirley Sherrod for president

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...

July 26th, 2010 | Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US, Women | Read More

It’s time to have a Black Tea Party

At its 101st annual convention, the NAACP adopted a resolution “calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous and David Webb, a co-founder of Tea Party 365, debated the tempest in a teapot...

July 20th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Opinion, Politics | Read More

The Haudenosaunee right of return

by: Steven Newcomb For some 30 years, the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), often known as the Six Nations Confederation, have been accustomed to traveling internationally from and back to North America on Haudenosaunee passports. Now, however, the United States government has evidently taken...

July 16th, 2010 | American Indians, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Obama’s black paradox and our own

He’s damned fortunate if we don’t and damned fortunate if we do allow that he is black. We received some crazy responses by email, by phone, and as online comments to our blog post, “Could Obama dare to say that some people attack him because he’s black?” on Race Talk a week ago. Racial...

June 30th, 2010 | Featured, Politics | Read More

One Year Later: Honduras resistance strong despite US supported coup

Co-written by Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond. Bill and Laura work at the Center for Constitutional Rights. One year ago, on June 28, 2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was awakened by gunfire. A coup was carried out by US-trained military officers, including graduates of the infamous US Army...

June 29th, 2010 | Featured, World | Read More

Roseanne Barr says Israel must end their blockade and occupation of Gaza

A frame grab from a video released by the Israel Defence Forces shows what the IDF says is an activist hitting Israeli soldiers on a ship heading toward Gaza on May 31. (IDF/Reuters) Co-authored by Roseanne Barr It is time for American Jews to demand that Obama instruct Israel to obey international...

June 17th, 2010 | Featured, Politics, US, World | Read More

Obama is black but he’d better not say so

Against blatant racism there are weapons and white allies; against stealth racism, not so many. It is now politically incorrect to call anyone a racist, even if they are. But how can you tell anymore? Those who used to be identifiable as black racists now have white friends and white racists have...

June 11th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

Obama Administration: Only Muslims can be Terrorists

John Brennan in the Oval Office - White House Photo The new May 2010 US National Security Strategy has been appropriately praised for doing away with some of the “global war on terrorism” rhetoric used by the George W. Bush administration. President Obama’s National Security Strategy,...

June 8th, 2010 | Middle East | Read More