WHAT NEXT?

Why did Bush win? What can Progressives do to win back the White House? My answer to those questions is based generally on the exit poll information that many of us saw on the news last night. Bush won big on two issues: cultural issues and leadership. Specifically, in Middle [...]

OUR BED

As the old saying goes, “You made your bed, so now you have to lie in it.” Well, yesterday America made its bed and we are confined to it for at least the next four years. Yesterday, Americans made the momentous decision to reelect a President whose primary accomplishments include a net job loss, a [...]

Voting In The South

MEMPHIS–Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, my grandmother, my mother, your grandparents, your relatives……..lets face it, we all have a connection to the south. If you are African-American, you are either connected literally by blood or spiritually by those who were tortured, maimed, killed, lynched and shot in order to give the voiceless the [...]

WHAT NEXT?

Why did Bush win? What can Progressives do to win back the White House? My answer to those questions is based generally on the exit poll information that many of us saw on the news last night. Bush won big on two issues: cultural issues and leadership. Specifically, in Middle [...]

OUR BED

As the old saying goes, “You made your bed, so now you have to lie in it.” Well, yesterday America made its bed and we are confined to it for at least the next four years. Yesterday, Americans made the momentous decision to reelect a President whose primary accomplishments include a net job loss, a [...]

Voting In The South

MEMPHIS–Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, my grandmother, my mother, your grandparents, your relatives……..lets face it, we all have a connection to the south. If you are African-American, you are either connected literally by blood or spiritually by those who were tortured, maimed, killed, lynched and shot in order to give the voiceless the [...]

A Long Night

It’s been a long night. And it seems it may last another four years.
Currently Bush has 249 electoral votes to Kerry’s 242 according to the New York Times with Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio still counting. The Washington Post has Bush with 254 electoral votes to Kerry’s 242 with Nevada going to [...]

A Long Night

It’s been a long night. And it seems it may last another four years.
Currently Bush has 249 electoral votes to Kerry’s 242 according to the New York Times with Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio still counting. The Washington Post has Bush with 254 electoral votes to Kerry’s 242 with Nevada going to [...]