He doesn’t have a clue.

And, as for the topic on hand, it’s way past time that this tribute happened. These were brave, strong ‘ race men’, who withstood a great deal of harsh treatment in order to serve their country. But, the people whose lives they saved during their service understood the greatness of these men.

We need to thank Eleanor Roosevelt, because she was the one who saved this program when even Dwight David Eisenhower wanted it scrapped.

Rep Boner was killing me with his ignorance. Good lord.

“White-News” vs. Shaquanda Cotton

Although Shaquanda Cotton, (the 14 year-old Black girl sentenced to 1-7 years in detention for pushing a school hall monitor) has captured the hearts of Black bloggers who are working feverishly to get her released from detention, and the story has been picked up by the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and on government sponsored National Public Radio, still “Shaquanda” has NEVER ONCE been mentioned by white people at DailyKos in stories, diaries or comments. (I don’t know about MyDD.) The ostensibly “progressive” DailyKos is a “white-news” perveyor that ignores – even more than the mainstream media – issues that primarily disadvantage Blacks.

Since the Shaquanda Cotton story directly challenges the whitosphere fallacy that whites have become “color-blind,” so whitosphere blogs like DailyKos will wilfully ignore this story until and unless it becomes so large that they can no longer pretend that it doesn’t exist. Continued at the Francis L. Holland Blog.