(Originally published at AfroDaddy.com)

After months of speculation, Mitt Romney has finally settled on his Vice President choice, Paul Ryan.  Of course many Republican conservatives are elated with this choice, as Ryan represents everything they like: smaller government, tax breaks for the rich, eliminating social programs, and a "dog-eat-dog" capitalism that leaves many poor, hungry and disenfranchised.

Democrats are equally pleased with the pick as Paul Ryan represents an easy target to rail ag

June 29, 2012

Raynard Jackson

Now that Romney is the defacto nominee for the Republican Party, I have been reflecting on the state of the presidential race as it enters the final stretch.  As a political strategist, I understand the necessity to run to the right during the Republican primary and then migrate to the center during the general election.

It is common knowledge that Romney has no intention of focusing on the Black vote during the general election.  From a raw po

Gloria Dulan-Wilson Blog

FORECLOSURE PREVENTION ALERT: NACA comes to Brooklyn, March 24

PRELUDE TO 5-DAY NACA MARATHON AT JAVITS APRIL 26th - APRIL 30th

by Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:

I am forwarding NACA Flyers "Save The Dream Workshop" to your attention. Please email, or print and distribute - share - with your constituents, neighbors, friends, associates, acquaintances, neighbors, etc. It will be held at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Multi Services Center, 1958 Fulton Street, Auditorium, Saturday,

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By Gloria Dulan-Wilson: Hello All: I recently had occasion to respond to an individual who is a "self-styled activist" who had invited me to participate in a protest demonstration against President Barack Obama, which would have taken place in Harlem in front of the Apollo while the President participated in a fund raising concert held in his honor.

The email which I received on January 17,2012 was so hostile that I immediately shot back an email to the author, Nellie Hester Bailey, informing he

By H. Lewis Smith ~

Upon Barack Obama's election to President of the United States, euphoria, jubilation and an aura of disbelief simultaneously enveloped the Black African-American community. Perhaps, it could even be said that many saw him as a Messiah and the primary power-holder to make life and living better for Blacks. Seemingly, Black African Americans became complacent and blinded by the historical, unprecedented election of America's first-recognized Black President, thinking him the

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S BIG SPEECH

 WITH JOBS ON HIS MIND

- NEWS ANALYSIS –

 By H. Khalif Khalifah SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

NAT TURNER LIBRARY, DREWRYVILLE, VA – The eagerly awaited big speech to cure the ill United States economy was delivered in standard, grand, convincing style by President Barack Obama.

“The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy,” he said.

 If Barack Obamas’ reference to “we” meant h

August 18, 2011

Raynard Jackson

How long will the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) continue to behave like a person who has been diagnosed with erectile dysfunction (ED) and has been prescribed Viagra by his doctor?

The male psyche is extremely fragile and when the doctor prescribes Viagra to him, initially it is a huge blow to his ego.  Then, there is an initial state of denial, followed by acceptance.

So it is with the CBC and their relationship with President Obama.  Obama has all but ignored

The ruler of the world has spoken. “Kaddafi has got to go.”  So US and other North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation (NATO) bombs rain down on Libya killing men, women and children in alarming numbers. So the US and NATO, primarily Great Britain, France and Italy, despite their collapsing economy, spare no expense to try to kill Kaddafi. “If we can’t kill Kaddafi, let’s kill his daughter, his son, his grandchildren, his fellow Libyans.”  Despite the demonizations, bombings and the merciless killi

May 5, 2011

Raynard Jackson

Of course all the talk this week has been of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by the elite Navy SEAL Team 6.  I was hoping, at least in the U.S., that this event would allow America to come together, if only for a moment, and reflect on what makes America such a wonderful place.  But, I guess I was a bit too optimistic!

The word SEAL is an abbreviation for SEa, Air and Land.  They are part of the Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC).  They were formerly refe

 From the Ramparts
by Junious Ricardo Stanton

Don’t Believe The Hype

        “How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the ‘terror mastermind’--who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO, who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control, who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in