Rick Perry’s Troubling Racial Past
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 12th, 2011 4:32 am by HL
Rick Perry’s Troubling Racial Past
Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post
I’d been meaning to see “The Help” when it was first released in August. Yet seeing the film Saturday night was made all the more powerful with Rick Perry and “Niggerhead” in the news. The movie is but a peek into the pernicious power and oppression of racism, white supremacy and the N-word. And it is a reminder of why it matters that the Texas governor and his family leased a property for more than 20 years with a widely known racist name.“The Help,” based on the best-selling book by Kathyrn Stockett is the gripping story…
What We Could Have Done to Speed Up Recovery
Ezra Klein, Wash Post
It’s time to admit something: The economy is not recovering. It is, if anything, unrecovering. We’ve added an average of 119,000 jobs a month since January. That’s better than the 78,000 new jobs the economy averaged per month in 2010. But it’s barely enough to keep up with population growth. It’s not nearly enough to cut into the unemployment rate. And over the past three months, it has fallen to 96,000 per month.
Obama Admin’s Reverse Racism
Thomas Sowell, Investor’s Business Daily
Among those who have been disappointed by President Barack Obama, none is likely to end up so painfully disappointed as those who saw his election as being, in itself and in its consequences, a movement toward a “post-racial society.”Like so many other expectations that so many people projected onto this little-known man who suddenly burst onto the political scene, the expectation of movement toward a post-racial society had no speck of hard evidence behind it — and all too many ignored indications of the very opposite, including his two decades of association with the egregious…
