First let's start with this from Tim Wise to which FemiSex says Amen! This might as well have come from our mouths. "As a white person, I always saw the terms honky or cracker as proof of how much more potent white racism was than any variation practiced by the black or brown. When a group of people has little or no power over you, they don’t get to define the terms of your existence, they can’t limit your opportunities, and you needn’t worry much about the use of a slur to describe you, since, in all likelihood, the slur is as far as it’s going to go.

Hopefully none of you have forgotten the despicable comment by misogynist Sandra Bernhard who “issued a blistering warning to Sarah Palin during a performance of her new one-woman show. The Republican V.P. nom would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" if she enters Manhattan, Bernhard said. Palin is said to be making a campaign stop in New York next week.”~NYDaily News There are so many tragic things about Bernhard’s execrable comment not least of which is a white woman counting on black men to act like animals who would rape a woman based upon her political views.

From DBeast: "According to a recent Washington Post/CBS poll, the number of African-Americans who believe Obama’s actions have helped the economy has dropped from 77 percent in October to about half that this month."

Howard Fineman of Obamaweek writes that Obama "came {to New Orleans} with news that the Orleans Parish school system was about to get a check for $1.8 billion. Whee. That's you and me...our tax dollars. Now for $1.8 billion bucks (extra bucks), Orleans Parish ought be set to pump out the most bestest everest students ever. But...Obama won't talk about the real problem behind the fact that some students just won't make the cut no matter how much money and time we pour into them.

Recently on the Sunday morning talk shows there was a face off of sorts over what role government should play in our lives.
Ron Brownstein of The National Journal spoke of black Americans wanting caretaking and Al Sharpton didn’t disagree. In fact Sharpton made the case that Obama was correct to lead this country in a more socialized and caretaking direction because “elections have results.”

Then I read this on The Nation website:

This story just appeared on CNN: “Why Some women’s groups are miffed at Obama”

“CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- What's made up of five women, four African-Americans, three Latinos, two Republicans and two Asians, including a Nobel Prize winner?
The answer: President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet.