Pardon My Politics

Americans need real healthcare reform, not just insurance reform, and nobody should mistake the two. Real healthcare reform should offer coverage to the employed, the unemployed, the sick, the healthy, the young, the old. Everyone.

How would CNN promote a show called “White in America?” Would they feature the thousands of meth addicts who have abandoned their children? The California rural and suburban white women who do more dope than Latino and black youth? And if not, why not? Can’t they get State Farm, Ford and McDonald’s to sponsor such a program? All of these companies are sponsoring “Black in America,”" the aim of which is to cast collective blame on blacks for the country’s social problems. For ratings.

There is a saying that history repeats itself and without a doubt that is what is currently taking place in this country with the gay rights movement.

People who supported slavery, denied white women and people of color the right to vote, were all on the wrong side of history by denying people’s basic human and civil rights. And today, there are many who are still on the wrong side of history by denying gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans basic civil rights.

President Obama defends his decision to boycott the recent United Nations anti-racism conference – and the UN replies