slave trade

The Pesky Fly discusses Rep. Steve Cohen latest struggle with waking up white in a district that isn’t:

Some people really hate the far left. Although they are wrong on so many issues I try never to hate. More, I feel sorry for their lack of knowledge. I guess their lack of a quality education, mixed with their unwillingness to learn, admit facts or law that may contradict what ever it is they want to do at that particular moment has held them back.

Campfield: Anchor babies and state laws

Rep. Stacey Campfield argues the positive case for refusing automatic citizenship for children of illegal immigrants:

Tom Humphrey reports on how the two bodies of the legislature pass different type of bills in each house but not in both chambers so the bills don't become law.

Black Americans were a founding population. Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding. . . .

Descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that. . . .

It was mentioned in the comments of another thread that Sen. Obama's recent speech on Race hadn't been posted so ... here it is (please forgive any formating issues - this was pure cut n' paste):

Transcript of Obama's speech - CNN.com

KAG points out that in an opinion piece to the Knoxville News Sentinel, arch-conservative invokes the name of

by Nathan McIntyre