A reader recently sent me an e-mail admonishing me for not being more supportive of President Obama. For reasons that were not immediately clear, he also raised the issue of my confessed Christianity. The “aha” moment came when he asked, “Do you pray for your leader like you’re instructed in the good book?”

I responded that while I have prayed for the president, I do not do so regularly. That, in his mind, was evidence of my Christian hypocrisy.

(NNPA)—The economic problems we face are right in our own backyards. Unfortunately, until our problems reach crisis level we are content to engage in spirited conversations and philosophical diatribes about the likes of Tiger Woods, a billionaire who could not care less about the economic plight of Black people. We live vicariously through super rich entertainers, many of whom would not even stop to shake hands with us if we met them on the street. We get lost in the euphoria of having a Black president, arguing about his issues and his battles in D.C., rather than dealing with our own in hometown USA.

Tiger Woods’ public apology about his infidelity was both unsettlingly and unnecessary.

The apology marks the fall of the No. 1 golfer in the world and reflects the rise in American society’s insatiable intrusion into the private lives of public figures.

The event, which was televised live, was amazingly treated as if were a major announcement by a head of state.

Woods, who was making his first public statement since a Nov. 27 car crash set off a wave of revelations about his extramarital affairs, talked for about 13 minutes from behind a podium backed by a blue curtain.

There are a lot of reasons why people end up going to college. Sometimes it’s because you can put a ball through a hoop or run really fast, perhaps you’re just really smart, and in some cases someone else is paying your way. But those are the practical reasons, the real reason why people go to college is to meet friends, potential spouses and get to know different types of people that may help you personally or professionally down the road. Unfortunately for many fraternities at the University of California San Diego their members obviously went to college to perpetuate ignorance, racism and their own inflated sense of privilege.