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John McCain and Barack Obama had their final debate last week during which McCain questioned Obama about Bill Ayers, a former member of a revolutionary organization known as the Weather Underground. McCain said “I don’t care about some washed up terrorist,” but immediately after the debate he began a robo-call campaign stating “Obama worked [...]

She told me she killed someone.
She wanted off of work, so she told her boss that her aunt passed away. She got a week off of work with pay and got travel down to Florida to see her favorite rapper perform during Spring Break. That wasn’t all she got, because 2 weeks later, after returning [...]

Sarah Palin had one job last week: not to make her self look like any more of an idiot than she did during her interview with Katie Couric. If you didn’t see the series of interviews, there was one where Sarah couldn’t name the magazines or newspapers that she reads on the regular. [...]

Last Friday at a rally in Florida, Barack Obama was heckled by a group of about 20 protesters about him being endorsed by the KKK. It baffles me that Blacks still believe nonsense being shoveled by the Neo-Cons running the Republican Party. Obama handled it like the statesmen he is, saying:
“Hey young people out there [...]

One would think this photo is from the 1950’s but it’s not. On November 25, 1969, some 2,000 students boycotted their classes and marched down University Avenue to a rally outside the offices of the Alachua County School Board to have the all black school known as Lincoln High integrated. You see, even though Brown [...]

Last summer while I was shopping at my local grocery store, I saw the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life. I approached her and we had a great conversation walking through the grocery store shopping together. At the checkout line we exchanged numbers, I couldn’t wait to call her later that [...]

If you were one of the 38 million people who watched Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last Thursday night, then you know this election will not be a race of experience vs. inexperience, but rather a race on judgment.
This year the DNC did exactly what it was designed to do, unite the party, [...]

40 years ago, on Feb. 9th 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, preached what might be considered his own eulogy. It was called “A Drum Major’s Instinct.” In it, he described how he envisioned his funeral. I first heard this shortly after I touched the very cart they used to carry his casket through [...]