Barack Hussein Obama weak and ineffective leader By Kwesi McDavid-Arno I have been astounded by the broad range of criticisms that President Obama has faced during his first term in office. The fact that so many people typify him as a weak and ineffective leader is astounding to me. The President might as well change his name to Barack Charlie Brown Obama, because this President gets no respect. Never in the history of this nation has a President had to endure a disrespectful outburst from a member of Congress during one speech and rudely visible vociferous reactions from a Supreme Court Justice during another. I just dont see that happening to a Caucasian President by Black member of Congress or a Black Supreme Court Justice. President Obama has had his citizenship challenged, birth place contested, and racial epithets of every type thrown his way. While it is sad the level of disrespect that this President has had to endure, it is equally amazing that he has the strength of character to maintain his calm demeanor. I can understand Republican vociferously attacking the President on every issue imaginable, but what I cant understand is the criticisms from the left. It is these criticisms from the left that I find puzzling. President Obama has come under constant fire from the liberal establishment. From Matt Damons I would prefer a one term President with Balls to Princeton scholar Dr. Cornell West I think my dear brother Barack Obama had a certain fear of free Black men. The President is the most powerful pinata in the history of the world. Even my fellow Black Nationalist engineering professor best friend thinks that Obama is a weak leader. I simply dont agree, and I just dont understand it. The attacks from Damon and West are not policy critiques but personal Read More...

NBA 2012 The Slave insurrection By C.B. Forde The NBA has always been a racially polarizing sport. Two powerful examples of this are 1 the 1991 Charles Barkley fan spitting incident and 2 the infamous 2004 PistonPacers brawl starring Ron Artest and a drunken Caucasian fan. Barkley embarrassed himself by mistakenly spitting on a young female fan in reaction to being taunted with racial epithets by another fan. Fortunately, he made things right by apologizing to, and subsequently befriending, the girls family. The Ron Artest incident was instigated by a drunken felon. Despite this, the NBA suspended 9 players for significant periods for entering the stands and fighting. To mainstream America, the modern NBA players has become a symbol of the arrogant, ignorant, impetuous, and border line criminal Black Athlete. To them, the NBA is a proverbial inner city high school with Commissioner David Stern acting as no nonsense Principal. Stern has always reveled in his role as disciplinarian and managerial icon who reigns in these rambunctious Black Athletes, taking actions such as enforcing a strict dress code. Stern is credited for the marketing success of the NBA packaging these unsavory characters into a palatable and highly entertaining operation. However, Stern went overboard with his authoritarian tone during the 2011 lockout, and exposed his and the leagues weakness. He really took his Principal act to the limit when he made his famous take this offer or the next one will be worse statement in reference to the 2011 NBA labor negotiations. Read More...

Black and White Conservatives Play the Media Bias Card By A. Peter Bailey Conservatives such as Bill OReilly, Sean Hannity, Herman Cain, Laura Ingraham, Gregory Kane, Shelby Steele, Walter Williams, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Our Blacks are better than their Blacks Coulter have successfully intimidated many who oppose them by accusing their opponents of political correctness andor playing the race card. Because of my fear of being so labeled I wont say that a charge of sexual harassment by two blonde white women against Herman Cain has a racial component. After all Cain and his fellow black conservatives insist that race is no longer a meaningful economic, political or cultural factor in this country. This raises a question. If race is no longer a factor why are Cain and his supporters whining about his being the victim of a high-tech lynching Why would a conservative columnist write a column entitled The Liberal Lynching of Herman Cain Why would a black conservative acquaintance of mine insist that I should support Cain as a black man. My response to the latter was that I am too brainwashed to support Cain. Plus theres my concern about being considered a promoter of victimhood. Read More...

Kanye West and the Tradition of the Thug Intellectual By Justin Mitchel Since the death of Tupac Shakur 11 years ago this month, there has been a noticeable void in the world of hiphop. That fateful day in September represents not only the all too human death of perhaps the most important voice to emerge out the AfricanAmerican community in the last thirty years, but also the symbolic death of the Thug Intellectual, a figure whose avatars included Malcolm X, Huey Newton, and Iceberg Slim. The Thug Intellectual is a variation of the badnigger, the homegrown antihero of AfricanAmerican folklore. The bad nigger has always haunted AfricanAmerican consciousness. During slavery he was known as John the Conqueror, a trickster figure who got over on both blacks and whites. He was the subject of violent ballads during the Jim Crow era that would make some of todays gangsta rap songs look tame. He found fame later in the blues songs of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Lightnin Hopkins. One catches glimpses of him in the novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison through characters such as Bigger Thomas and Rhinehart, respectively. You see, the bad nigger is the pimp, the numbers runner, the bootlegger, the guntoting, loudtalking, womanizing brute who Read More...

Climate Change: The Corporate Right Can Run but They Can't Hide By Sid Davis The old saying about there being two types of people in the world can apply to almost anything, but increasingly it applies to belief in humancaused global warming. Either you buy it or you dont. Lately, the buyers are dwindling in number due to a pushback against climate science on a number of fronts, and by the scientists human failings being exploited by a wellorganized corporate opposition. Part of the success with this pushback is due to the fact that global warming itself seems difficult to understand. But as Albert Einstein once said about his Theory of General Relativity, really anyone can understand it if its explained the right way. Scientists have known for a very long time what keeps the Earth warm. Of the many factors involved, atmospheric composition is the most important. Venus is much closer to the Sun than Earth, but not so close that its surface temperature should be 900 degrees. Venus is superheated mainly because it has a dense atmosphere filled with greenhouse gasses. Conversely, Mars is farther from the Sun than Earth, but not so far that it should be in deep freeze much of the time. Read More...