Black is the new black

Suddenly, everybody wants to be black. Even the Republican Party is threatening to elect its first black national chairman. Michael Steele, former Maryland lieutenant governor and J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state, are among six candidates vying to lead the GOP into the Obama age. We did a piece on this recently. See [...]

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This post was written by David Cruz on January 10, 2009 Comments (0)

The Great White Yank?

Interesting column in the New York Daily News this week, by sports columnist Filip Bondy, about some Yankee fans, longing for the good ol’ glory days of the all-white Yankees (Ruth, Gehrig, et. al.), may have found their latest example of the Great White Yankee in Mark Teixeira.
Bondy’s premise is somewhat undermined by the fact [...]

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This post was written by David Cruz on January 10, 2009 Comments (0)