prejudices

While touring the National Civil Rights Museum today, I stopped to read a placard at the lunch counter exhibit.

The “thrill of victory and agony of defeat* as history was made this week” edition of the weekly unpredictable TennViews roundup featuring primary reaction from Tennessee’s best bloggers.

The "thrill of victory and agony of defeat* as history was made this week" edition of the weekly unpredictable TennViews roundup featuring primary reaction from Tennessee's best bloggers.

One thing I've noticed here in the South during the presidential campaigns for Senator Obama and Senator Clinton: the fairly quick withering worldview regarding non-whites and women.

Since Dunkin' Donut caved to the right wing xenophobic fringe over a little neck scarf with some fringe, I thought they may need a new ad campaign to replace the Rachel Ray campaign they pulled, so I thought I would try to help them out. Below are my suggestions for some ad campaign slogans around which to build an ad campaign.

Brendan Loy urges caution in analyzing the results of today’s Democratic Presidential primary likely to be a lopsided one for Hillary Clinton:

So, the other day a large apparently hand-typed poster was found in a local barn and presented to me for my amusement.  I didn’t keep the poster, because I know too many people who need copies of it before I can take the original in good conscience, but the poster is awesome.

Here we are, in 2008, at the precipice of a new America. A new country where we can move beyond the racial divides of past, move beyond the horrors of slavery, move beyond the history of segregation and disenfranchisement. Much has been made recently of my pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose inflammatory rhetoric which has rightfully upset a nation.