I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.

I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.

We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.