“I loathe the term ‘African American’”
February 10, 2009
New GOP Chairman Steele ‘a prominent Catholic who was once a seminary student’
February 3, 2009
Original story in the National Catholic Reporter
Film New in Town based on novel by Ken Rance … featuring black characters
February 2, 2009
African Americans ‘markedly more religious’ than U. S. population as whole
February 2, 2009
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life (HT: Sam Hodges, Religion Blog)
LaShawn Barber says Push (the novel) “shows how the human spirit fights to survive (and thrive) even in the midst of unspeakable pain”
January 30, 2009
Video: The director of Push the movie speaks
Another post-election reflection
November 6, 2008
Black independent conservative La Shawn Barber isn’t mincing words:
“As long as families (the foundation of society) are in shambles, conditions won’t improve much. But with Obama in office, white liberals can feel good about themselves and blacks can feel proud, fatherless children and dead babies be damned.”
Read her post, “Barack Obama’s Post-Racial Delusion.”
Some election debrief
November 6, 2008
Beliefnet editor Steven Waldman shares some interesting ‘factoids’ such as the following:
- Turnout was up more among Born Again Christians than among youths….
- In Colorado, the base of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, the percentage of evangelicals supporting the Democrat doubled since 2004.
Thabiti Anyabile offers some keen insights at Justin Taylor’s blog:
“There will no doubt be many associations made between [Obama's] skin color, assumptions about his race, and a host of successes or failures during his presidency. But let us Christians avoid such errors. Let us avoid saddling this one man with the responsibility of representing a “race” of people, or saddling the people with this one man’s failures or achievements.”
And Taylor Marshall blames Obama’s win on American Catholics.
A first
November 5, 2008
Image by Patrick Moberg (HT: Abraham Piper >> Wesley Hill)
New online magazine/blog
October 31, 2008
UrbanFaith.com, a new site launched by Edward Gilbreath.
Barber on Colin Powell’s Obama endorsement
October 20, 2008
Conservative blogger La Shawn Barber was not surprised:
“I, personally, me, La Shawn Barber, couldn’t care less that retired Army General Colin Powell, black Republican, endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama for president. … For those who do care, let me ease your mind. As confusing as it may be, you shouldn’t be surprised. That is, if you know anything about Colin Powell.”
Newsflash: Obama not an Arab
October 15, 2008
A point driven home by Culture11’s Razib Khan:
“There are plenty of black Arabs of course, mostly in the Sudan and East Africa. Arab is a cultural-linguistic identity, so race is no bar. But the fact is that most Arabs are a Mediterranean looking folk as the process of Arabicization occurred mostly in the Near East and North Africa.”
Video: “Abortion and Black Genocide”
October 9, 2008
