2008 Making Black History Past, Present, Future

lstall2725 03:17:16 PM Nov 15 2008

on nov. 4, 2008 Willis Blackenshear became the frist black to be elected to be the county recorder in the state of ohio for montgomery county/ Dayton,ohio

teac288 05:07:21 PM Nov 10 2008

It was coming all along. There are many whites who still believe that everything is defined by the color or your skin. Yes, there is not one pure bread American in this country. So race relations as it is practices in this country should have been done away with long ago.

ibelinda2 07:02:03 PM Sep 23 2008

THANK GOD WE HAVE SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN AND A RAY OF HOPE WITH OBAMA. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.

ismabayl 06:45:31 PM Sep 19 2008

Baltimore , MD 2008 It has been quite phony to hear the Republicans discount the fact that Barack Obama graduated Harvard Law School , Magnum Cum Laude , and was the president of the Harvard Law Review , in the face of their Presidents' graduation from Yale with a " Gentelmens ' C ' .

johndavis856 09:22:59 AM Aug 30 2008

With the nomination of Senator Barrack Obama as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States the flames of race for many of our citizens has been ignited. In a survey conducted by the National Association of Black Journalists of news managers at the 61 network-owned television stations found a lack of African Americans and other minority groups were tremendously under represented and with prectically no diversity in the uppermost tier. At a time when America is searching for new leadership and the first ever African American Presidential Candidate and on that same day when THE GREATEST CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER IN THIS NATIONS HISTORY, DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MADE HIS FAMOUS,"I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH." the follow up coverage was dwarf by WHITE AMERICA... BECAUSE THE WHITE DOMINATED NEWS MEDIA EXECS DECIDE WHAT STORY TO PUSH!!! WOULD YOU DARE BELIEVE THEY FOUND IT NECESSARY TO PROMOTE THE GOP'S NOMINATION OF A UNKNOW WHITE WOMAN AS A GREATER STORY THAN THE HISTORY MADE AT THE DE

shermanmil 05:33:21 PM Feb 06 2008

Will Democratic Party Write off Black Vote in 2008?

By

Dr. Sherman N. Miller

If the Democrats have no clear winner by their convention, they have the option to write off a minority voter group. However, throwing Senator Barack Obama out might signal to African American voters that their mainstream legitimacy is an illusion in the eyes of the Democratic Party leadership. This action may force Black Americans to seriously consider voting for a Republican candidate for the first time in roughly a half century.

E.J. Dionne, Jr. reported in an August 2, 1987 article, “G.O.P. PONDERS AN APPEAL TO MINORITIES” seen in February 6, 2008 The New York Times Week in Review on how the late President Richard M. Nixon (Republican) got about 30 percent of the black vote in 1960. “As recently as 1960, Richard M. Nixon won about a third of the black vote against John F. Kennedy. And in the 1970's, William E. Brock 3d, the Secretary of Labor who was then Republican National Committee Chairman,