Donna Brazile is not going to the back of the bus

Amen.  h/t JJP. 

I don’t know what to say to this

A jaw drop really is my only response.  From the Panama City News Herald, October 2:
MARIANNA (FL) — A Marianna Middle School teacher was suspended after students said he used a racial epithet directed at presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Seventh-grade social studies teacher Greg Howard was given a written reprimand on Wednesday for “racially inappropriate comments” [...]

Richard Trumka’s excellent speech

I heard AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka give a version of this speech at the Democratic National Convention.  If you haven’t heard it yet, you owe it to yourself to do so.

How to avoid a fiery ball of hell

Watch this ….  And then go here:  This Week in Blackness.

And we’re still talking

Over at Alternet.org, Courtney E. Martin has posted a fantastic piece, “Generation Y Refuses Race-Gender Dichotomy.”  Ms. Martin embraces in this piece a lot of things we’ve talked about lately here at AshPolitics, including the viability of the feminist choice for Obama and racism and a piece I did for Zennie’s Zeitgeist on interracial relationships.  What I like is [...]