The whipped up Paula Deen racism controversy is a bad thing because real racism does exist and it’s awful. To set Paula Deen was the standard for racism lowers the bar so much that actual celebrity racists with recent history of such racism like, let’s say, Mel Gibson and his misogynist, racist crazy abuse of [...]

Andrew would have loved this. The @Large Conference held recently in Baton Rouge, Louisiana brought people together from around the country to discuss issues related to black conservatives. In a time when the GOP is talking ‘outreach’ in the wake of Mitt Romney’s 2012 Presidential defeat, the conference was an important first step in the [...]

Think the Pigford black farmer settlement claims that give virtually automatic payments of $50,o00 to anyone claiming that they (or their parents, grandparents or whatnot) attempted to farm are over? Think the billions flowing to fraudsters are finished? Guess again: with almost no media scrutiny, no political courage to call fraud FRAUD, and President Barack Obama [...]

I would never cover up fraud because the person who committed the fraud was white. I would never attack someone exposing fraud because they were black. Yet that’s the sort of blatant racism that helping to cover up the Pigford scandal. It’s not just being covered up the lawyers and politicians; it’s being covered up [...]