GOP activist Rusty DePass called a press conference to apologize for some racist remarks he made. Hmm, where did he go to hold this press conference?
Ahh. He went to visit Dr. Lonnie Randolph, President of the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. The look on Dr. Lonnie Randolph’s face is priceless. He would much rather [...]
Back on this post, “The Purpose of Reaching Out,” I described a strategy for change that can be summed up by, “keep ‘em talking.” This strategy, when it was combined with something else, worked well for Harvey Milk, as he defeated proposition 6. Here, in this post, I describe the something else, the historical challenges [...]
Gwen Ifill’s new book “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” is good, and it mentions a couple of South Carolina stories: (1) the successful beginning of the political career of SC State Rep. Bakari Sellers and (2) the SC Democratic Primary victory of Barack Obama. Here’s Gwen Ifill’s description of the famous “Race [...]
