Sen. Barack Obama must stop using people of color as props. For blacks or Muslim Americans, that’s what we’ve been reduced to.
Addressing a congregation at the Apostolic Church of God, one of Chicago’s largest black churches, on Father’s Day, Obama said: “Too many fathers are MIA, too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many [...]

In United States politics, a Sister Souljah moment is a politician’s public repudiation of an allegedly extremist person or group, statement, or position perceived to have some association with the politician or their party. Such an act of repudiation is designed to signal to centrist voters that the politician is not beholden to traditional, and [...]

Much ink has been spilled of late over John McCain’s “evangelical problem.” Chasing the endorsements of high-profile evangelical figures, McCain has found himself twice embarrassed: first, by the need to repudiate fringe figures like John Hagee and Rod Parsley, and second, by the fact that many high-profile evangelicals have turned up their noses at him.
Meanwhile, [...]

Barack Obama leads a charmed life. He finally had his Sister Souljah moment and didn’t even have to show up. Jesse Jackson did it for him solo.
Sixteen years ago, Bill Clinton used a Jackson-sponsored forum to rebuke the rap singer for suggesting that black people “have a week and kill white people” rather than each [...]