July 17, 2008
Excerpts from an article on CaribbeanWorldNews.com:The campaign to get Caribbean nationals accurately counted by the U.S. Census in 2010 will kick off officially in New York on June 20, 2008.“Being visible in America begins and ends with the U.S. Census,” proclaimed CaribID2010 chair Felicia Per...
go to article »June 13, 2008
"The house is not in order" said the gentleman from Ohio and former Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich yesterday before for a dramatic five hours he read 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush for "High Crimes and Misdemeanors.Kucinich also named some of President Bush's acc...
go to article »June 12, 2008
Taking the reigns of the Democratic party. Barack Obama has impressed many with his implementation of the "no lobbyist" money rule for the DNC. He has also been praised for aligning with Howard Dean's vision of a 50 states strategy for winning the November election. Finally, many see his backing of ...
go to article »June 11, 2008
The U.S. government, robbing the poor to give to the rich. That's what they do.While the primaries have captured the headlines, everyone is losing sight of the way this government is gaming the taxpayers everyday. This so-called "economic stimulus" package for instance is a bribe to keep the peasant...
go to article »May 16, 2008
This Saturday Night Live sketch is not pulling any punches. Looks like the Clintons are pissing off more people. They are standing in the glaring light of their own classless blind ambition.The Clintons are gambling that the superdelegates will buy the arguments that 1) her supporters are racist and...
go to article »May 12, 2008
As seen on my friend Lolo's blog IES OUI KANE, there appears to be yet another calypso anthem to Barack. This new one is by Mac Lean Emmanuel and Stanley Humphreys from the group King Short Shirt and it's not so subtly titled Barack We Love You: Recall Barack the Magnificent by the Mighty Sparr...
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Former Village Voice writer Gary Dauphin is probably one of the people whose writings about Haiti and Haitianness (not to mention Haitian-Americanness) move me the most. What I tend to like about his musings is his candor and nuance. He's just done it again in a piece for the Root weaving the recent...
go to article »April 25, 2008
VIDEO: Fox News ambushes Chicago's Father Pfleger,a Catholic priest and friend of Jeremiah Wrightand Louis Farrakhan and gets an earful.The Fox News' corporate mission, nay religion, is first to get ratings, second to advocate vociferously for the right-wing Republican cabal of George W. Bush and th...
go to article »April 1, 2008
"Haitians have no political power."--Tim Russert | MSNBC (03/29/2008)Now that seems like a harmless assessment, but if you look closer it makes you wonder what it would take for Haitians to have this vaunted "political power." Could it be that they are poor and black? Is that their sin? So I sat dow...
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