This is How Mitt Romney Avoided Paying Taxes For 15 Years by Using the Mormon Church’s Tax Exempt Status
Republicans and Democrats alike have called on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns, all to no avail. Romney has refused to release the bulk of his returns and claims that his refusal is based on the belief that Democrats will pick apart his returns and use them against him. However, it has now come [...]
Yvette Carnell: Enough is Enough, It’s Time For Undecided Voters to Get Off the Fence
by Yvette Carnell Before last night, undecided voters could make the case that both candidates had won one debate, so there was still reason enough for them to waffle on who they’d cast their vote for come November 6th. But last night, President Obama did to Romney what Romney did to Obama in the first [...]
NAACP Official Says Obama Campaign Staffer Threatened Him For Criticizing the President
NAACP official David Lowery says he was threatened during a phone conversation with Louis Raymond, the Illinois political director for Obama for America. Lowery is the president of the South Suburban Branch of the NAACP in Chicago, and says Raymond threatened him after Lowery told the campaign he doesn’t “personally support the president because he’s not [...]
Yvette Carnell: Obama Just Got Rolled by Willard “King of the Rats” Romney, How’d That Happen?
I knew there was a problem when I read The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer who is normally keenly insightful on issues of race and culture, praise Obama for a comment that wasn’t particularly praise-worthy. Regarding the above clip, Coates made this flattering comment: “Barack Obama — master of the slow soundbite. It’s like watching Kareem’s [...]
Yvette Carnell: George Will Plays the Race Card, Says Obama is Winning Because He’s Black
by Yvette Carnell In the 2008 election cycle, some GOP pundits and writers pushed the notion that Obama was winning because he was black. According to them, Obama was winning because of a combination of white guilt and pigmentation politics, meaning whites were voting for Obama to rid themselves of some residual guilt and blacks, [...]
Here We Go: Touré Says Obama’s Reelection Will Advance Racial Harmony
by Yvette Carnell In the lead up to Obama’s 2008 election, many of us thought electing a black President could heal America’s racial wounds. We were, sadly, and unmistakably, wrong. For those who envisioned Obama ushering in a period of racial detente, those dreams were quickly dashed. If anything, the election of the first black [...]
Yvette Carnell: The Evolution of Michael Eric Dyson…. Things Done Changed
by Yvette Carnell Author Michael Eric Dyson spoke to a room filled with mostly women during the NAACP state convention on Saturday in Daytona Beach. Not surprisingly, Dyson catered to the mostly female crowd, saying black men should “follow our women into the voting booth.” Encouraging men to get more politically active is one thing. Kudos for [...]
Cherokee Chief Demands Apology From GOP Sen. Scott Brown For Racist Tomahawk Chops and Indian Mocking by Staffers
Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) has issued an apology after being called out by principal chief of the Cherokee Nation for his staffer’s “downright racist” Indian chants at a campaign rally. “The conduct of these individuals goes far beyond what is appropriate and proper in political discourse,” the chief, Bill John Baker, said in a statement. “The [...]
Yvette Carnell: In London, Chris Brown Albums Come With Warning, “This Man Beats Women”
by Yvette Carnell Gawker reports: Customers shopping for CDs at HMV stores in London have reported seeing an “advisory label’ on Chris Brown’s latest album warning patrons not to buy the album because “this man beats women.” The stickers were allegedly placed on Chris Brown’s latest album, Fortune, by women’s rights activists. Let’s just put it all [...]
Yvette Carnell: Tavis Smiley Lists Excuses Black People Will Make if Obama Loses… But He Misses a Few
by Yvette Carnell From the beginning, Tavis Smiley has gotten a lot of flack from the black community for holding President Obama’s feet to the fire. Smiley has said from the beginning that President Obama isn’t looking out for black people, and doesn’t have an agenda for poor people, who are disproportionately black and brown. [...]
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