Recently the U.S. Senate and House voted on a $700 billion bailout package to help the troubled financial market. The New Pittsburgh Courier asked how you felt about the bailout. Here’s what you said.
African-Americans have been faced, throughout the Barack Obama campaign for president, with the presumption that our support for him is due to racial solidarity, rather than his electability, policy stands and (yes) strong, traditional family values. Likewise, his opponents at every stage in this grueling campaign have implied that Obama could take the Black vote for granted. Rather than work to win the Black vote, John McCain has simply tried to use Obama’s runaway popularity in the Black community against him in the majority community in subtle and not to subtle ways.
On Oct. 4, my talk program, which can be heard every other Saturday on WAMO AM between the hours of 7:30-8:30 a.m., we discussed the topic of positive Black men. The program was co-hosted with Rick Adams and what a time we had.
When boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of raping Miss Black Rhode Island, Desiree Washington, in an Indianapolis hotel room, for which he served three years in prison, we threw him a parade upon his release.
The catch phrase for this political season is “change.” Voters want it though they are often at pains to describe exactly what that change is. They are tired of business as usual and desirous of a new politics in Washington, an end to partisan bickering and the beginning of a new vision and a new political culture.
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