In his 2002 editorial “The reason there’s no White Expo,” black columnist Leonard Pitts explains that whiteness is an artifical construct used most pervasively in America to circle the wagons around wealth and influence, rewarding homogeneity among fair-skinned peoples while subjugating everybody else. This has made “White” an incendiary designation, whereas designations like “Scottish,” “Polish” […]
I do have to wonder what Juan Williams was thinking when he admitted on national television that the sight of people in Muslim garb boarding an airplane gives him pause. NPR commentators who moonlight as Fox network pundits walk a fine line of credibility and Williams must have known where that line is drawn. But […]
I wonder how many small-time holy men are wishing they were him right now. Yesterday, Pastor Terry Jones was obscurity itself. His Gainesville, FL congregation just a slip of a thing. As few as 30, by some counts, as many as 50 by others. Today his name is on the lips of every news anchor […]
