Author: Shawn Williams

Day of Blogging For Voter Justice: Senator Clinton Needs to Concede

Day of Blogging For Voter Justice: Senator Clinton Needs to Concede

There is a racial divide in the blogosphere just like everywhere else in America. I am taking Sen. Obama up on his challenge to bridge the gaps that still exist between Americans. I’m calling on fellow left leaning bloggers (especially in Texas), to join the Afrosphere Action Coalition in the...

Part 3 “Media Lynching” on hold

Part 3 “Media Lynching” on hold

I had to get these recent developments out so I couldn’t get to Part 3 today.  Man that Parsley stuff is hot. “Nearly 25% of the entire black population in America has been aborted since 1973,” Parsley says. Who’s going to touch it? “You and I help pay for every...

Dr. Wright comforts Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson in times of need

Dr. Wright comforts Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson in times of need

In 1998, during one of President Bill Clinton’s darkest hours, who did he call for spiritual guidance? You guessed it, Dr. Jeremiah Wright. Bill Clinton and everyone else should be ashamed for their silence as they watch the media characterize Wright as a fringe outsider that Barack Obama brought to...

5 years later – Still More questions than answers in Iraq War

5 years later – Still More questions than answers in Iraq War

According to CBS News, 29 percent of Americans say the results of the war were worth it Our nation just recognized the 5th Anniversary of the War in Iraq. Five years later and there are still more questions than answers. When will it end? How many more American and Iraqi...

Electronic Village – “Al Sharpton and NAACP Are Wrong in Dunbar Village Gang-Rape Case”

Electronic Village – “Al Sharpton and NAACP Are Wrong in Dunbar Village Gang-Rape Case”

I hardly ever post an entire writing from another blog, but this one is so important I can’t help it – this is too important. Please show some love to Villager, publisher of Electronic Village (and the Black Blog rankings, by visiting one of the links in this sentence. Or...

Emails received from my ‘Truth to Power’ Dallas Morning News article

Emails received from my ‘Truth to Power’ Dallas Morning News article

I have gotten more emails regarding the “Truth to Power” article I wrote in Wednesday’s Dallas Morning News than anything I’ve done. In part because of the valuable piece of journalistic real estate that Sharon Grigsby and the editorial staff provided me. I am TRULY THANKFUL for the opportunity. White,...

Hustle Knockin’ explains contradictions of John Adams biopic

Hustle Knockin’ explains contradictions of John Adams biopic

I had to share this review of HBO’s John Adams Biopic posted at HustleKnockin.com . The film starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney chronicles the life of one of America’s founding fathers.  Here are a few excerpts from the review.  Be sure to visit www.knockthehustle.com as well. Filming a biopic...

Dallas Morning News – Shawn Williams:Black pastors speak truth to power

Dallas Morning News – Shawn Williams:Black pastors speak truth to power

Here is the article I wrote that appears in Wednesday’s Dallas Morning News. Some of this is familiar from Part 1, but there is about 30-40% new material. Sick. Disgusted. Appalled. Those were some of the feelings that washed over me as I have listened to the mainstream media launch...

The Media Lynching of Jeremiah Wright (Part 2 of 3): Crazy Talk

The Media Lynching of Jeremiah Wright (Part 2 of 3): Crazy Talk

Do I think HIV was an experiment created to destroy black folks? I don’t. Do I see how one might think such a thing? I do. How can one fathom the U.S. Government conspiring against a race people, it’s own citizens no doubt? I believe these words can at least...