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Jeremiah Wright 9/11 sermon in full context – what Fox News doesn’t want you to hear

Jeremiah Wright 9/11 sermon in full context – what Fox News doesn’t want you to hear

Take a few moment to listen to Dr. Jeremiah Wright’s now infamous sermon regarding 9/11 in its full context. Dr. Wright makes it clear he is quoting a white ambassador and that the words are not his own. He is merely commenting on something said by another. I’d like to...

NAACP Executive Board to consider Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III as organization’s next president

NAACP Executive Board to consider Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III as organization’s next president

Keeping with the Friendship-West theme, Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III will be presented to the NAACP executive board in short order to take over as the group’s next president. The Philadelphia Inquirer broke the news a couple of weeks ago that Dr. Haynes was one of three finalists to fill...

WELCOME FRIENDSHIP-WEST MEMBERS!!!

WELCOME FRIENDSHIP-WEST MEMBERS!!!

I’d like to welcome the members of Friendship-West who may be visiting Dallas South for the first time.  This morning at the 10:45 service Dr. Haynes referenced the site as a blog to come voice your opinion about the Jeremiah Wright situation.  The post he was referencing is The Media...

Meet the Browns latest Tyler Perry movie to lose with critics and win at the box office

Meet the Browns latest Tyler Perry movie to lose with critics and win at the box office

When I opened the paper Friday and saw that Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns received a C-, I knew it would make a lot of money. The movie raked in $20 million dollars and placed 2nd at the box office behind Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who ($25 million). The...

MediaCurve.com has real time reaction of Rev. Wright’s sermon among African-American and other groups

MediaCurve.com has real time reaction of Rev. Wright’s sermon among African-American and other groups

I picked this up off the Dallas Morning News Opinion Blog and Nicole Stockdale. Here’s the premise: MediaCurve.com played some of Dr. Wright’s sound bites in front of 799 people — Democrats, Republicans and independents — and recorded their reactions (positive vs. negative) in real time. This is as real...

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...