First Lady Depicted As A Partially Nude Slave

Althea Legal-Miller, Clutch Magazine wrote the following:
On newsstands across Spain, Michelle Obama can be seen gracing the August 2012 cover of Magazine Fuera de Serie, a lifestyle supplement to the newspaper Expansión. She is seated on a chair draped in the American flag, partially nude in slave attire, complete with one of Aunt Jemima’s chicer headscarves. Perhaps because it seems so obviously offensive, the mind attempts to rationalize; “Did this get lost in translation, or is this as racist as I think?"

Ku Klux Klan Monument to Hate in Selma, AL

Can you believe it?

In Selma, Alabama, a monument to the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan is under construction on public land.

The statue of Confederate General Nathan Forrest -- infamous as the first Grand Wizard of the Klan and for massacring black Union soldiers at the Civil War battle of Fort Pillow -- even has the blessing of the Selma City Council.

Fear of a Black President: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Art Work by Bill Sanderson

Ta-Nehisi Coates begins his recent Atlantic article "Fear of a Black President" as follows:

As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama reveals the false promise and double standard of integration.
 

Coates explores the plight of the first African-American President in dealing with the country's attitudes and beliefs about race. Follow the link above, read the article and share your thoughts with me.

Ta-Nehisi Coates talks with Atlantic magazine editor Scott Stossel about the anger behind this article. Watch the video.

Ta-Nehisi Coats Talks about Anger

VIDEO: Ta-Nehisi Coates talks with Atlantic magazine editor Scott Stossel about the anger behind his article, Fear of a Black President.

A View From Another Side: A European Prespective on America

 

 

 

 

The video below has recently gone viral on You Tube and it fits right in with the issues Americans are discussing and mentions people who are making the nightly news.  It features a May 2010 exchange betwee Michael D. Harris (who was later elected President of Ireland) and Michael Graham, an American talk radio host, writer, and conservative political commentator. His daily talk show, The Natural Truth, airs on WTKK.

 

Although I know some Americans don't care at all how folks from other countries view America,  I found the video interesting on a number of different levels.  I'd love to hear your comments after you've viewed the video.

 

 

Michael D. Harris

Newsweek: "Hit The Road, Barack" Gets Blasted

Here's where we separate the men from the boys.  Here's a roadmap to the article and its critics.

For those who haven't read the controversial Newsweek article "Hit the Road, Barack, Why We Need A New President". Use the link to read Niall Ferguson's article against the President's re-election  for yourself.

Criticism was swift from a diverse group. Read the media's response.

JoAnn Reed, the Grio poses "Five Questions to Newsweek" about the article.

Naturally, Ferguson defends himself against his critics in a follow-up article, telling "Stick It".

Dig into this controversy as deeply as you wish, then share your comments.

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire:Romney-Ryan Campaign

The Daily Beast columnist Robert Shrum comments on  the Romney-Ryan Campaign, called by some "the lyingest campaign ever".

Reckless disregard for the truth is a habit at the heart of the Romney enterprise. From the beginning, the entire campaign has been a calculated exercise in deceit. Its central rationale was conceived in a falsehood, that Romney the financial manipulator at Bain was a prolific job creator. The suspiciously round number was 100,000 jobs. The evidence? Romney never did disclose any records to back up his boast, and he took credit for hiring at companies long after Bain was gone from them—and he was gone from Bain.
 

Then, when the Obama campaign’s Bain ads hit, similar to the ones that upended Romney in a Senate contest with Ted Kennedy in 1994, the former governor was still unprepared, presumably unable to disprove the criticism or prove his self-defining claim. He retreated first to bromides about free enterprise, and more recently to a cop-out plea for an “agreement between both campaigns” to declare that attacks on “business or family or taxes” are off-limits. What’s family got to do with job-crushing profiteering, offshore tax havens, or Swiss bank accounts? It was Romney who ran on his business experience. Suddenly it’s unfair to talk about it.