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Inspired by the controversy surrounding @chrisrock's July 4th "slavery" tweet, Katherine talks about her experience growing up as a white girl in a black community and how white .. Read More

What started out as a "maybe I'll live-tweet as I listen to the oral arguments hahaha" idea turned into a four hour project. I think I'll mark up the transcript with the must-re.. Read More

Black-and-White Progressives http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/2012/03/black-and-white-progressives.html A long and spirited discussion about Milt's latest article cause.. Read More

It's no secret President Barack Obama is a masterful gamesman. An avid poker player, he knows when to hold and when to fold. In chess, he's been said to move, think, and .. Read More

Donate directly to @ppact: https://secure.ppaction.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=pp_ppaf_AC_OneTimeGift&s_src=c4webnav The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen.. Read More

Me and a supporter of occupy have a friendly debate on twitter about the effectiveness of their tactics as it relates to the events of Occupy Oakland Read More

A Friday Night Rant urging progressives to get smarter about playing politics.  Read More

A photo released this week showing Republican Arizona Gov.Jan Brewer pointing her finger in the face of President Obama has ignited a war of words from Americans across the nat.. Read More

Refuse to see it around you and inside of you. So President Obama's 2012 State of the Union Address was last night. Because many Americans are now "tuned in", we have to endure .. Read More

In what might be called the "beat down" of the century, President Barack Obama showed Congress Tuesday night that politics is not a spectator sport. In a speech that lasted 1 .. Read More

Vent gives his earnest and balanced response. Read More

Because patriotism. -ABLxx P.S. I made it right to the end of the address before being thrown into Twitmo, so I didn't include any Mitch Daniel-related tweets. I know you're.. Read More

Be Scofield takes offense to Tim Wise's article about Ron Paul. Because there's nothing like a white dude telling black folks how black folks REALLY think. Read More

Because America. -ABLxx Read More

Tweeters debate whether or not Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would hate Barack Obama. Read More

.@dangillmor seems to think that he's the arbiter of what Martin Luther King, Jr. would think about President Barack Obama given understanding of today's socio-political client. .. Read More

It hasn't been a full week yet, but First Lady Michelle Obama's numbers are going through the roof -- no, not her polls numbers but her Twitter numbers. The First Lady emer.. Read More

A bookend to http://chirpstory.com/li/3818, blogger @rootless_e explains to @bescofield why his analysis of President Obama's foreign policy in a vacuum is specious and disingenu.. Read More

Posed a ludicrous question by an overzealous fan, Tim Wise engages, and more than adequately defends his post: http://www.timwise.org/2012/01/of-broken-clocks-presidential-candi.. Read More