Commentary

ABOVE PHOTO:  Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaks at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in Washington, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was 50 years ago today when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream”…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  President Barack Obama gestures during an event in the East Room of the White House to promote his “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, in Washington. Joined at the White House by young men of color, Obama called on America’s businesses, philanthropists and government leaders to join forces to put…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito (68) and tackle Jonathan Martin (71) stand on the field during NFL football practice in Davie, Fla. Pending free agency and a racially charged bullying scandal could add up to a completely overhauled Miami Dolphins offensive line and some players looking for a job.  (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)…

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By Wendell P. Simpson ‘Stand your ground’ laws have not only become a lightning rod for controversy surrounding the use of deadly force in one’s own defense, and a rallying point around which organized racists have been galvanized, but also an subject of concern for African American academicians. Ever since George Zimmerman invoked the stand…

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson  South Carolina GOP Senator Tim Scott  is the latest to spin the laughable fantasy that blacks are ripe for the GOP pickings. Scott didn’t stop at the absurd assertion that there are a lot of blacks who supposedly are pining to embrace the GOP because of its tout of business and…

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There’s probably not a single word in the English language that dredges up profound imagery of one kind or another as ‘nigger’. A most derogatory term—and at the same time, recently, a word that has been adopted as a term of both animus and endearment among African American youth.

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The attack on President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address has become a virtual political ritual. The attacks came before he even uttered a word of it before Congress and the nation. His Sixth State address is almost no different.

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The instant his verbal explosion of an interview hit, the predictable quickly happened with Seattle Seahawks all pro cornerback Richard Sherman. In fact two predictable things happened with him in the aftermath of the interview. The stereotypes flew fast and furious.

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As we race toward the halfway mark of the new decade, politics in Pennsylvania remains uncertain. Long the quintessential competitive two-party state, Republicans have now lost a record setting six straight presidential elections back to 1988, while laboring under a registration deficit of 1 million voters.

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President Obama’s slumping approval numbers seem to confirm the belief that second term presidents run into trouble in trying to hold it together during their second term. In Obama’s case, the NSA spy debacle, the anger over Benghazi, the AP leaks, and the worry over the Affordable Health Care Act website glitches.

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