Writing the next chapter on race

For several months, the media has been pushing the fairy tale that the United States moved beyond racism with the election of President Obama.

As untrue as that is, there are people who started acting on their post-racial fantasies years ago, eight years in fact, as the Bush Administration used that excuse to essentially stop enforcing the civil rights laws we already have. President Obama and his administration have the opportunity to take dramatic steps towards dismantling institutional racism and inequality by simply enforcing the laws that are already on the books. Rather than blindness or silence, taking this action requires us to live in reality so that we can change that reality.

Anti-abortion activist distributes “Real Solutions to the ‘Negro Problem’” tract at DNC

“Racist” fliers authored by notorious anti-abortion activist Randall Terry littered cars parked at Elitch Gardens Friday night where a DNC media party was taking place.

Denver police take the Olympic gold in rambling racist rantings

Just as the Denver Police Department is getting ready to rumble — rolling out its brand new pepperball launchers and other riot toyz, the newsweekly Westword has pulled a dusty video out of some basement vault showing a 1979 recruiting class being berated by a commanding officer as “niggers,” beaners,” “greasers” and “homos,” demanding Jewish recruits ID themselves and questions women on their promiscuity. The shocking video, nearly 20 minutes long, may be old, but it doesn’t exactly promote the Mile High City as forward thinking at a particularly crucial moment.

Limbaugh Muses About DNC Race Riot, Local Radio Pimps Itself

While Rush Limbaugh backpedals and his “dittohead” fans defend the “White Christmas” parody musing about race riots during the Democratic National Convention, Denver conservative talk radio station Newsradio 850KOA seizes the opportunity to promote its website. How classy.

Like Obama, Groff Strives to Transcend Race

Peter Groff made history Wednesday the way Barack Obama is trying to.

Anti-Immigrant Push Polls Ignore Reality

The surveys continue to arrive, even though proponents of nativism succeeded in killing comprehensive immigration reform in Congress months ago.

The surveys usually come addressed to my wife, who handles all the finances in our household.

The surveying…