(*NEW POLL) MyAmerica.gov: A National Non-Partisan Network
As progressives everywhere strategize about evolving mybarackobama.com into a regional tool or refocusing change.gov, I must passionately and stubbornly insist that we merely borrow from those two...
View ArticleThe inaugural revolution will be...streamed (poll)
As part of the ongoing social technology revolution from Team Obama, on January 7, 2009, they unleashed USAservice.org, an independent, non-partisan social network for civic engagement in America....
View ArticleStream the Inauguration from your cell phone (poll)-UPDATE
Update: Why wait for the transition team to make mobile streaming of the inauguration happen when, as I wrote, the technology already exists? I've now created a Qik group so we can stream the...
View ArticleHaha, now THAT'S truth to power - a timeline (poll)
Some people are still concern-trolling the blogosphere, saying "the sky is falling" and "Democrats aren't standing up to power," and "we're going to lose this thing!" Okay, that last one they had to...
View ArticleLessons from the Watermelon Man: POLL (sensibilities alert) - UPDATE
In 1980, my sister and I were walking down a street of our new "hometown" of Wichita. We had just moved to Kansas from a country club in Santa Barbara County, and I'd just arrived from a summer in...
View ArticleUPDATE #2: The Watermelon Mayor Fully Resigns (POLL)
In a letter dated today, Monday, March 2, 2009, Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose resigned not only from his position as mayor, but from his seat on the City Council, "for the love of my community and the...
View ArticleMolested child's mom excommunicated; rapist absolved (POLL)
I would like to write a deep analysis of what I have just read, but it is hard to think right now. My heart breaks for this child and her mother and her doctors. Maybe there is something someone...
View ArticleCraigslist - the Sunday Funnies in an Unemployed World (POLL)
With zero data to confirm my claim, I am guessing that Craigslist is at server capacity these days, thanks to soaring unemployment and vanishing paper want ads. Now, the culture of CL has always meant...
View Article'Whites-Only' Designers Reap What They 'Sew' w/Mrs. O? (POLL)
The coolest thing about being African-American and bilingual Italian is that when you go to a model casting in Milan and are pointed to the sign that reads "no ragazze di colore" (no colored girls),...
View ArticleDebunking Obama Emails (POLL)
I was following the interesting threads on a diary from earlier today regarding the latest Obama urban legend about veteran's health care, then the diary vanished. So I decided to publish my lengthy...
View ArticleRegan McMurrey just kicked your kid's @ss. (POLL)
Regan McMurrey just kicked your kid's @ss. She posted last week to my alumni list-serv, as a top-tier college senior who built her first of many Web sites at age 11 for a non-profit, has won several...
View ArticleGallup "Pro-Life" Abortion Poll: MSM Fudges Results (POLL)
I have read and received calls and emails about the recent "stunning" Gallup poll where, purportedly, the majority of Americans, for the first time in years, identifies as "Anti-Choice" vs...
View ArticleIt's not a kingdom, it's a PRESIDENCY. (POLL)
In today's Huffington Post, the CEO of Human Rights First describes the "lively and detailed and serious" hour-plus discussion that Team Obama had with a number of human rights representative in...
View ArticleLGBT Brothers and Sisters: STOP WAITING FOR IT. (poll)
(This diary springs from a comment I made to an earlier diary that I just want to have HEARD.)What is with getting madder and madder as you wait or are told to wait for Obama to address gay rights?It...
View Article"Ghetto Loans" and the latest subprime scandal [POLL]
This from the Saturday New York Times:Beth Jacobson and her fellow loan officers at Wells Fargo Bank "rode the stagecoach from hell" for a decade, systematically singling out blacks in Baltimore and...
View ArticleMurder + Melanin = Terrorist? [POLL]
I'll keep this brief. I cried out in the middle of a phone call when the news flashed today. An extremist had opened fire in our Holocaust Museum. An American security guard was shot in cold blood,...
View ArticleSotomayor, Affirmative Action and Dissonance - poll
After a week of watching the full frontal race-carding of Republican senators in the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, I have decided that it is not the election of Barack Obama that the history books...
View ArticleRacism: A Primer. (POLL)
In America, many equate discussing race with being racist (on Daily Kos, it is a frequent battle across so many diaries). And now with Harry Reid's quote about Obama's demographic chances as a...
View ArticleObama & Rahm Go "Mean Girls" - Top 10 List (SNARK)
You will recall that on Thursday, Obama Smacked Down Israel Prime Minister Netayanhu at their White House meeting by not inviting photographers, then by leaving the prime minister to "stew in the...
View ArticleRIP, GWS, Assassination, RedState and Cowardice (poll)
I lost my breath when I clicked refresh on my browser after a long day of work. I was afraid of this, angered by the fear and what I felt was the probability of escalation from the hateful rhetoric...
View ArticleTexas Group's "White Male" Scholarship: Financial Aid Facts vs Friction
I was reading the HuffPost article Texas Group Will Offer Scholarships To White Men Only and was stopped cold by the distressing ignorance of the financial aid process in the United States. The...
View Article#whcd=winning. Top Tweets about last night's Correspondents' Dinner...
It was a long week, after a long two years, of birther-mania, but last night's dinner was truly epic, in the social media sense of the word. I know I didn't see it coming...and neither did Trump....
View ArticleRise of a New "Confederacy": Race, Privilege and President Obama (POLL)
It is hard to process sometimes the belief that a mixed race, poor kid from a broken family, abandoned by his dad literally, "abandoned" by his mom figuratively (ask some children who have been given...
View ArticlePlease hear and understand: Posting to a blog is not giving your life for...
This began as a comment in yet another diary that does not clearly distinguish between insulting President Obama and advocating for just policy and change. While I continue to respond each time I see...
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Steve Jobs and Progressive People of Color (tribute poll)
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, has passed away at 56. It is a loss for technology, our nation, the planet. He was a brilliant, complicated, demanding, visionary human. He changed the...
View Article[UPDATEDx2 w/response videos] "Redneck's" viral video calls for "white racial...
Dixon D. White (a pseudonym, like his YouTube moniker, "W Honky"), a self-identified Southern redneck, was at the top of my Facebook timeline today with this video. I clicked play on FB after reading...
View ArticleViola Davis & @NancyLeeGrahn: A Guide to Apologizing for Unexamined Privilege...
This diary offers a step-by-step approach to how to apologize when privilege and lack of awareness lead to statements that cause an uproar and/or tarnish your reputation or self-image.For context, last...
View Article[UPDATEDx2] AL Police Officers Whistleblow on Supremacists in Dept who...
What I am reading…News Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska ComplicitWhat I am thinking…Take a deep breath. Click...
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Race relations are not a zero-sum game.
For clarity or comfort or food for thought…Race relations in our country are not based on your skin color but on your perspective. In other words, your role in the dialogue and the solution is not...
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GOP strategist's game-over tweet storm about...deep GOP accountability for Trump
GOP strategist @MattMackowiak just projectile posted a stunning 53-post tweet storm tracing the evolution of Trump as their candidate. What’s missing is about 300 years of deliberate, strategic...
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Are you one stunning moment of entitlement away from life in prison, too?
I am sure/hopeful that by now many have heard that Michael Dunn was sentenced to life without parole for the killing of Jordan Davis. If you don’t quite remember which gunning down of an unarmed Black...
View Article#BLAXIT: A Woke White Person's Primer for Tackling Trump's America
Dear Woke White People:You have seen #blaxit on your various social media timelines already because you are woke, and friends like me are part of the reason that you are.To be extra clear, #blaxit...
View ArticleBattle the Bully Boycott! Order from GrubHub This Weekend and POST PICS!
All. Please ORDER FROM GRUBHUB this weekend and post to your social media accounts.Right-wingers are calling for a GrubHub boycott because the CEO compassionately said he wouldn't support Trump-like...
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WAKE UP!!!! We don't need a new Dem Party. We need to face this one, critical...
I was reading in confusion, then disbelief, the comments in Robert Reich: Why We Need a New Democratic Party until I got to greg2910’s response:greg2910Nov 12 · 01:01:14 PMSorry this is crap we don't...
View ArticleSocial Justice Resource List: What You Can Do NOW For Yourself and Your Family
Below is an initial roundup of possible proactive steps and resources for diverse communities to preemptively protect themselves and their families. I hope we can constantly grow this as a...
View Article"If I can get away with it, I woulda put a bullet in...their heads."...
Four days ago, bodycam video revealed that on August 30, 2016, three teenage girls in Weiser, ID were stopped by a police officer who verbally insulted them, arrested them after a verbal dispute, then...
View ArticleSocial Justice Resource List: What You Can Do NOW For Yourself and Your Family
I am reposting this updated roundup of possible proactive steps and resources for diverse communities to preemptively protect themselves and their families. I hope we can constantly grow this as a...
View ArticleHow to Go Home for the Holidays. P.S. You can. You MUST. [POLL]
It’s official — much of America is hoping or planning not to see their families for the holidays. The revelations from the past year’s election dialogue have created an enormous divide and more pain...
View Article#Aleppo civilians are posting pre-execution videos. We must, must act.
I am keeping this brief so we can focus on action. Assad’s forces have control of eastern Aleppo and are reportedly shooting remaining civilians on site, doctors have been killed, residents are being...
View ArticlePrivilege is not a scarlet letter. It's a tool. #letstalk [POLL]
I have been so moved and energized by the many conversations around race and the women's movement since the #womensmarch. As I shared with a new FB friend yesterday, which inspired this post, the march...
View Article"House of Cards" creator's epic Twitter manifesto on Trump's violations of...
A couple of weeks after the election, someone introduced me to a friend this way: "She hates Trump! She loves Hillary!" I calmly replied that I did not hate or love any candidate, but I love my...
View ArticleFor white women and the WOC working with them (POLL)
We are three-quarters of the way into Year 1. For everyone who’s surprised by what they believe to be a new level of hate in America (it’s not — it’s just social media allowing it to crack through the...
View ArticleCALL TO ACTION: Let's feed and protect our hungry students! [POLL]
I’m sharing a link to a Facebook post with a list of nationwide links to help erase school lunch debt in local districts. I’m not cross-posting the full content here because the hope is to create a...
View ArticleThe "O.J. Talk": 2017 — Will the Conversation Change?
We are told we are days away from Orenthal James Simpson’s early release from a Nevada correctional center, after serving part of his “guilty on counts” sentence for kidnapping, weapons and robbery...
View ArticleNo, Trumpsters were NOT conned, 9/11 is NOT about fear and Ford definitely is...
What I am reading this weekend through the consistently unanalyzed and unchallenged mainstream-centered POV that dominates this site:1) That Christine Blasey Ford is no Anita Hill and that “This time...
View ArticleBolsonaro, Malcolm Nance and Putin's Black Wife
Bolsonaro has won the Brazilian presidency. And my afternoon with Malcolm Nance continues to resonate and horrify and enrage.In August of this year, a friend and I went to USC to see Malcolm Nance...
View ArticleAre we really doing this? Okay. Let's do it for the last time.
My dad’s med school yearbook is still in his library. We loved looking through it as kids. Howard Med School is where Dad came when his undergraduate institution advised that he was the brightest...
View ArticleWhite progressive culture in 2020 and beyond: the pitfalls, the promise, the...
I have mentioned in many posts and comments how disruptive the 2016 election results were for me. Not the vote/electoral college count as much as the conversations in my women’s Facebook groups. The...
View Article"Karen" isn't suddenly "going wild." She's just being documented. At last.
If you're laughing at @karensgoingwild on IG, I will add this layer. If you're still processing them as individual women - “look at this one!”/”can you believe that one?” - then you're not registering...
View ArticleD-Day and the Superhero Origin Story that is American History
I write this not as a resource diary but as an invitation, a request or even a temptation to do and even share research on a more complete version of American history.As we recognize D-Day, I want to...
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