Supreme Court Says Handguns OK

What will the Supreme Court's latest decision mean for your community? We have entered the age of the 5-4 split decision. With President Bush's appointment of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the nation's highest court, Americans can expect for the string of conservative rulings to continue for quite some time (Justices remain on the high court for life and Alito and Roberts are both in their 50s.)
How will these alleviated handgun restrictions affect the safety of African-American communities?

An article in the Washington Post examines the community reaction in the DC Area.

Release Date Set for Book Critical of Obama

The publisher behind the book which questioned the merits of John Kerry in 2004 has set a release date for a book similarly critical of Barack Obama.

Conservative journalist David Freddoso’s “The Case Against Barack Obama” will offer “a comprehensive, factual look at Obama,” according to Regnery Publishing president and publisher Marjory Ross.

But the book’s subtitle makes clear its perspective: “The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate.”

Ross contends that the mainstream media has offered insufficient scrutiny of Obama and likens the goal of Freddoso’s book to that of “Unfit for Command,” the scathing assessment of Kerry’s war record that rocketed to No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list.

Freddoso's Book is scheduled for release on August 4.

Of course, conservatives won't have near as easy a time smearing Obama as they did with Kerry (which still puzzles me), I don't blame them for trying. Barack's likeability is a major liability for McCain's camp. But the question remains: will these attempts to slander Obama hurt his campaign or help it?

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When Conservatives Attack...

They link you to Islam.

Conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt expressed his enthusiasm for Ohio State in an amazingly asinine manner.

And none of the USC people will give up their tickets to me. I’d pay fair price. They — they know Ohio State’s gonna slaughter the Trojans. They know that they’re gonna slaughter the Trojans, and therefore they do not want me there at the bloodbath, since it’s probably the last football game we’ll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama. I — I would like to see Ohio State slaughter USC. This is what I’m living for right now.

I'm continually astounded by slurs that are thrown about in reference to Barack Obama. This one was not racial in nature, but there's certainly a history of conservatives attempting to incite religious xenophobia within the American people by tying Barack to Islam.

Listen to it below.

Are White Americans Deluded About Race Relations?

According a recent poll in the Washington Post, White Americans are markedly more optimistic about racsim with the United States than African Americans.

Overall, 51 percent call the current state of race relations "excellent" or "good," about the same as said so five years ago. That is a relative thaw from more negative ratings in the 1990s, but the gap between whites and blacks on the issue is now the widest it has been in polls dating to early 1992.

I'm certainly not surprised that blacks don't view the state of race relations in America as favorably. Especially with memories of Katrina and Jena, Lousiana in the not so distant past.

More than six in 10 African Americans now rate race relations as "not so good" or "poor," while 53 percent of whites hold more positive views. Opinions are also divided along racial lines, though less so, on whether blacks face discrimination. There is more similarity on feelings of personal racial prejudice: Thirty percent of whites and 34 percent of blacks admit such sentiments.

read the entire article "3 in 10 Americans Admit to Race Bias"

Mississippi Town Holds First Integrated Prom

For the first time ever students in Charleston, Mississippi attended an integrated prom, and a documentary has been made chronicling the night. Charleston residents cite "traditon" as the reason for the continued segregation.

Student Chasidy Buckley says that Charleston's first interracial prom made for a happy and comfortable night. Some white parents wouldn't let their kids go, and some insisted on holding a private prom for their kids.

Am I the only one who is shocked by these sorts of stories. I know I shouldn't be, but in this day and age I am perplexed by the fact that this sort of abject racism still persists. I'm used to the covert stuff. The sideways glances from white folks and such, but this? You mean to tell me that these people don't want their black kids and white kids to go to a school dance together? What could they possibly be afraid of? Do they think this is the only way colored folks know how to have fun?

Here the entire story here

Tiger Woods Wins 4th US Open

Eldrick "Tiger" Woods is killing the game yet again. Just a couple of months after undergoing knee surgery. Tiger won his 4th US Open Title.

"...on Monday, in a playoff for the 108th United States Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course, Tiger Woods matched Rocco Mediate with a par-71 before parring the first sudden-death playoff hole to win a 19-hole struggle. Woods called it “probably the greatest tournament I’ve ever had.”'

Al Sharpton Comes Under Scrutiny For Corporate Ties

Al Sharpton, the President, of the National Action Network is being investigated for taking "donations" from many corporate companies.

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Here's the rundown:

"Anheuser-Busch gave him six figures, Colgate-Palmolive shelled out $50,000 and Macy’s and Pfizer have contributed thousands to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s charity.

Almost 50 companies - including PepsiCo, General Motors, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Continental Airlines, Johnson & Johnson and Chase - and some labor unions sponsored Sharpton’s National Action Network annual conference in April. Terrified of negative publicity, fearful of a consumer boycott or eager to make nice with the civil-rights activist, CEOs write checks, critics say, to NAN and Sharpton - who brandishes the buying power of African-American consumers. In some cases, they hire him as a consultant.

The cash flows even as the US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn has been conducting a grand-jury investigation of NAN’s finances."

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Obama Speaks to Black Fathers

On this Father's Day, presumptive Democractic Nominee Barack Obama delivered a stern message to black fathers:

"They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it,"

Obama went on to say:

"We can't simply write these problems off to past injustices," Obama said today. "Those injustices are real. There's a reason our families are in disrepair ... but we can't keep using that as an excuse."

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