October 2008 Archives

And people wonder why black folks are angry? Why couldn't this woman have said her attacker was a white guy or even Latino?

The more I look -- dispassionately -- at these concomitant issues, I'm starting to feel that the attacks of 9/11 were the catalyst that allowed American faux-machismo to do ourselves in. We've helped to have the chickens come home to roost.

Someone said "you only have to make a fortune once." Well it seems some have taken that maxim to heart, and made a fortune and nothing else of value, and you and I are left holding the bag.

At the end of the day, if you're a partisan, you left feeling better about your guy's VP choice, on both sides. If you're an independent or undecided, you probably leaned left to Biden. And all of us -- the left and right alike -- are happy that Mrs. Palin didn't embarass the nation collectively with a laughably bad performance.

Like most things American, crisis is always somehow laid at the feet of the person with color. This wasn't a crisis of color or class, it was a crisis of stupidity, and greed. And last I checked, greed and avarice had no discernable color.