Rev. Jeremiah Wright should re-listen to Rev. Martin Luther King.
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Race, Society | 5 Comments
Author’s note: This piece makes little sense absent the audio clips that are a part of it. To get the entire meaning of this post, either click on the “Listen here” links when they appear in the text, or listen to the spoken broadcast of this post on Newstalk 600 KTBB as it aired on [...]
Read More »Don’t buy the politics of despair.
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under Society | 2 Comments
Listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on Newstalk 600 KTBB, Friday Mar. 7, 2008
I covered the Obama rally in Ft. Worth a week ago last night. Among other things, he said this:
“You know, everywhere I go I hear stories of struggle and stories of hardship.”
He went on to describe people [...]
Remembering the lessons of 1968 as we vote in 2008.
Posted on January 4, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Society | You Tell Me (Comment)
Happy New Year and welcome to 2008.
It is hard for me to believe that it has been 40 years since those of my generation endured the misery of the year 1968 that helped define a whole cohort of politicians and journalists.
The journalists that were young in 1968 are now nearing the ends of their careers. [...]
