So I am oddly fascinated by this week’s media frenzy over Harry Reid’s use of the word “negro”.
The Washington Post summarized the contents of the book “Game Change” as follows:
The authors describe Reid assessing Obama’s strengths as a candidate. Reid, they write, “believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, [...]

What is the number one watched program on cable news? If you guessed The O’Reily Factor, as I’m sure most of you did, you’d be correct. Bill is averaging these days close to three million viewers on any given weekday. In case you were curious, that’s about twice as many people as [...]

Sit down in a circle everybody, because Uncle Mike is going to tell the story of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., with editorial comments injected. (I’ve been taking care of a two year old all week, sorry.)
Our story begins with Professor Gates returning from a trip to find himself locked out of [...]

“In Ricci, Judge Sotomayor’s empathy for one group of firefighters turned out to be prejudice against another.” — Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL, Ranking GOP Senator on the Judicial Committee
Let’s look at that statement closely.

Here are some other (non-presidential) races you may be interested in: (Note: these results are very preliminary and might yet change.)

This election just keeps getting more bizarre by the minute.
Last night, I heard Hugh Hewitt, a prominent conservative talk radio host, go on CNN and chastise the liberal mainstream media for ignoring a story coming out of Pittsburgh about a McCain volunteer being attacked by an Obama supporter who carved a “B” into her cheek. [...]

Politicians love to attack the media. It feeds their own egos to attack the messenger rather than to adjust the message. It also can make the public look more favorably upon you if they believe that you are being unfairly targeted by other people. This adage has been especially true running up [...]

One of the problems with overcoming bias is the problem of changing common knowledge. The best example I’ve seen is a classic Family Ties episode, in which the neighbors panic because a black family moves onto the block. As soon as the black family moves in, several families leave the neighborhood because of [...]

Another great article on race came out today, this one talking about racial discrimination in sports. The author, LZ Granderson, describes his infuriation at the stereotypes that continue to taint our perception of great athletes. In a nutshell: if you want to say that black guys can be great QBs, then you also [...]

“He contains within him the contradictions – the good and the bad – of the community that he has served diligently for so many years. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who [...]