English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives." This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.