” The issue here is not race, it is civility!” This is not to say that we are suddenly racially pure, but constantly talking and reducing everything to black versus white is not helpful to the cause of restoring civility to our public dialogue.

The blogger and centrist Conservative Republican Afrocity speaks out on racism and accusation of racism by Obama supporters.

Speaking to NBC News Anchor Brian Williams former president Jimmy Carter (taking a breather between having tea with dictators and lunatics) proffered that not only was South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s inappropriate outburst during President Obama’s speech before a joint session of congress fueled by racism, but the wider opposition to Obama is also based on the fact that Obama is Black.

Kanye West seemed like an American willing to take a stand against injustice when he spoke out against President Bush during Hurricane Katrina. Now after another public speaking snafu, it just seems like he merely spoke out of line – again.

The Democrats must understand that the American people are shopping. The American people want to choose the plan they are going to pay for. This is not being bigoted, but it is called “shopping around”. We “shop around” every day in our everyday lives. We take in the cost and the durability of the item we seek to have and then we purchase it. On both concerns, with regards to cost and durability, the public option is found wanting!

The assumption that there must be intra-racial aligned group-think is essentially racist. The best possible thing humans can do is to educate themselves and explore the intellectual world around them in an effort to be independent thinkers, not drones programmed to think one way, and act one way and even vote one way based on race.

As a black man, I know that for some odd reason, I can be percieved as a threat by people. I remember being 13 and going with my Mom to a credit union. While she did her business, I just kind of stood around. Unbeknownst to me, I was being watched and Mom found out and was upset. I was just surprised that people would consider me a threat- if they knew me, they knew I wouldn’t hurt a fly.

Today HHR posted an article on the events concerning a contrevorsy on Audras Facebook page. To be fair we wanted to hear from Audry to get her side of the story and here it is.   Arkansas Times has more information : Race and Young Repubs Audra Responds :  Yesterday on Facebook, an unfortunate incident occurred. An [...]