Obama Watch: Will Blacks Support Obama?

The upcoming South Carolina democratic primary will be pivotal to the Obama campaign. Having now lost the New Hampshire and Nevada primaries to Sen. Hillary Clinton, this will be the real test on whether Sen. Obama can rally the support of the African-American vote ...

Well the results are in and the headlines all declare that New York Senator Hillary Clinton is the winner of the Democratic primary in New Hampshire. This is after the surprise victory of Illinois Senator Barak Obama in the Iowa Caucus. There is a wave of excitement as Obama becomes the first African-American touted as a viable candidate that can result with a residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January 2009. When he declared his presidency, many doubted whether he could rally the white vote and be taken serious. But we’ve seen that in both Iowa and

Happy New Year! I certainly pray that you had a blessed and enjoyable Christmas holiday.

A new year always brings the opportunity to make new plans and goals that you want to accomplish. While some bemoan the thought of even making goals and plans (using as their benchmark the failure of previous years planning), the beginning of a new year always provides a “clean slate” and becomes a launching point to catapult your dreams to reality!

It is Labor Day and a many note worthy events have occurred since my last blog. However, one headline could not escape my attention, “Real Estate billionaire Leona Helmsley left $12 million in her will for her dog Trouble.”

 The scriptures reco ...

A recent Associated Press article appeared on CNN.com entitled, “Could Mr. Right Be White? – More Black Women Consider Dating Out.” It deals with the fact that Black women around the country are reconsidering interracial relationships. Of course I had to reflect back on the 1967 Academy Award-winning classic entitled, “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?” In that film a young White American woman has a whirlwind romance with an African-American (played by Sidney Poitier) and they plan to marry. The plot is centered around the young woman’s return to her home in San Francisco, California

There is something about wisdom & maturity that allows you to see the need to remove yourself from a position when you are no longer relative or productive in the office you serve. However, sometimes age does not always bring that wisdom & maturity. I have seen too many cases when a church, council, organization or even a Sunday school class becomes stagnant and dies because leadership held on to a position too long.

I guess this subject became poignant to me upon my return from the ...

How ironic, as I’m sitting on my deck this fourth of July listening to the illegal firecrackers going off in the neighborhood, that the headlines for this Independence Day is the executive commuting of I. Lewis Libby’s sentence by the President of the United States for the crime he was convicted on June 22, 2007. The former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was found guilty by a jury of his peers on four counts of perjury, lying to the FBI and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative’s identity. For this he was sentenced to 30 months of imprisonment and a fine of $250,000. The right-wing conservatives, Bush’s last bastion of support, railed on the President to pardon Libby; but instead the President commuted his 30 month imprisonment.

Between November of 1995 and April of 1996, the most powerful and admired man in the United States, former President Bill Clinton, admitted to having oral sex in the Oval Office and adjoining rooms in the West Wing with Monica Lewinsky while she worked at the White House. While under oath on January 26, 1998, former President Clinton denied having “a sexual affair” or “a sexual relationship” with Ms. Lewinsky. His famous quote during a nationally televised White House new conference, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” eventually became the basis for Independent Counsel Ken Starr’s attempt to have President Clinton indicted for perjury and a fail ...

A good friend of mine recently was having some physical challenges and attributed it to a car accident. The physician diagnosed the ailment and they were having it treated at their local, regional hospital. After several months the pain and discomfort was not going away. Finally, they decided to go to a medical center in another city. There they immediately identified the problem and initiated the correct treatment. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon occurrence. There is a difference in the medical care that is provided by different hospitals, as well as the difference in the care based on other factors such as race.

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