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May. 22, 2008
Be Not Distracted: A statement to North Carolina Voters
by the North Carolina Coalition of Civil Rights Activists and Ministers
The people of North Carolina and the nation face massive social problems that must be addressed now. Election campaigns are the only time when political leaders must stand up and say how they will address these problems so we can intelligently choose between the candidates.
Unfortunately, the pattern just before many Southern elections has featured a well-financed last-minute effort to distract us from thoughtfully choosing the candidates best able to address our economic and moral...
May. 1, 2008
The End of Obama-Magic and the Return of Politics as Usual
by Ed Whitfield
Barack Obama's Winston Salem denunciation of Reverend Jeremiah Wright for the audacity of telling the truth eases us back down to the familiar from that magic world where one might be half-black and half-white and where the widening gap between America's increasingly wealthy and the dispossessed darker inner cities is celebrated as progress to be built upon.
Barack Obama calls upon his mixed parentage and success in spite of an unstable youth as signs of new possibilities growing...
Apr. 23, 2008
Truth is the First Casualty of War and Presidential Campaigns!
by Dr. Claude Barnes
What did Obama say to deserve all the shrill attacks? Of course poor and working class whites are angry and bitter about their circumstances given the way they have been manipulated by their so called leaders and public officials over the last four decades. As more than one commentator observed, if they are not angry and bitter they should be or something is wrong with them (See
Apr. 15, 2008Building Campaigns or Beloved Community? A Reflection on the 2008 Presidential Campaign and Its Implications
by SaToya Truss and Wesley Morris
The scene was ripe with anticipation, this Wednesday afternoon at the Greensboro Coliseum. There was a Town Hall Meeting with Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. As the diverse Crowd began to take its seat, my friends and I engaged in a conversation that would not have been possible during the previous Presidential election. We talked about the issues of race and gender and how this debate could have a truly meaningful discussion that has not taken place in this country for some...
Mar. 28, 2008
Pulpit Forum letter to Rep. Mel Watt on behalf of Indian Workers
by Revs. Cardes Brown, Gregory Headen, and Nelson Johnson
The Honorable Melvin T. Watt
U. S. House of Representatives
2236 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Congressman Watt:
Representatives of the Pulpit Forum, an organization of more than 100 churches and pastors in Greensboro, NC, are writing you and copying other members of the Congressional Black Caucus on what we consider to be an urgent moral and human rights issue.
On Wednesday, March 26, we received and provided food, shelter and...