Given the national discussion, talk-show tumult, and arm-chair refereeing we have been embroiled in as a result of the July 16, 2009 arrest of Professor Gates in his Cambridge home, America has learned, much to its dismay, that the garden gate is stuck wide open in non-post-racial America.
Read MoreToday is Memorial Day. I, like many people, have the day off. At 3:00 p.m. we will have a moment of silence in honor of those who have served, those who are serving and, most importantly, those who sacrificed their lives for America, a country they loved.
Read MoreLast night, unable to sleep and too tired to read I surfed through my television’s On Demand selections to find, to my delight, that HBO has made a series of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama, will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. Though the media have continually called him the first African American president, this categorization does him a disservice.
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