If a Black man could blush in embarrassment…

Random music from back in the day that is too painful to listen to today (sorry for the bad layout of this post).
Rockwell
Five Star
Ready For The World (sorry, I just could not get past the curls, y’all!)
Jermaine Stewart (Man, I did not know he was dead!)
There are plenty others!!!

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Time to move on

Juan Williams responds to yesterday’s Supreme Court decision regarding the use of race as a basis for school assignment.
LET us now praise the Brown decision. Let us now bury the Brown decision.
With yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling ending the use of voluntary schemes to create racial balance among students, it is time to acknowledge that Brown’s [...]

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It’s just politics

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Legislative Black Caucus’s nonprofit foundation acknowledges it gave scholarship money to relatives of 5 lawmakers.
The group’s leader says it will review the way it hands out educational grants.
Democratic Representative Alma Adams chairs the 28-member black caucus. She says the foundation gave out $54,000 in scholarships in the 2005 and 2006 [...]

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Quotes from the Democratic Debate

I did not watch it (I only watch debates when it is between the Democratic and Republican nominee). Based on these quotes, I did not miss much at all.
Link to Associated Press article

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A Microsoft Exchange

The New York Beacon recently reported on a meeting between Microsoft and members of NNPA (National Newspapers Publishers Association). I thought that the article did a pretty good job representing both sides of this issue.
Excerpt 1
Speaking heatedly in the large auditorium, Eubanks said that the Black Press gets the “crumbs” when it comes to advertising [...]

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