Politics. On Point.

We've tackled, and we've heard stories about this issue before.   Has President Obama done enough for the Black agenda?   Is President Obama Black enough?   Has the President forgotten about the African Americans who helped propel him into the White House? I can't help remember the answer Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gave on 'Washington Watch' featuring Roland Martin when she was asked whether or not anything is being done specifically for African Americans to have better health care optiions.  [African Americans are reported as having the highest rate of certain kinds health care issues of any other race, and are also the least likely to receive the same quality health care treatment and options as whites.] Sebelius answered, "There are no provisions in place for African Americans in health care", and "No talks are on the table geared specifically for African Americans." Her answer has haunted me ev...

Mr. President, You Need Some Black Advisors Mr. President and his Cabinet  members. Photo/WhiteHouse.gov. Shirley Sherrod, Henry Louis Gates, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.  And Tiger Woods.  The list of those scathed by President Obama goes on when it comes race relations in America.   I mention Tiger Woods because he was another prominent African American who has trouble admitting he is, in fact, African American as President Obama did on The View last week. That didn't  gel too well with us here at Politics. On Point. Perhaps, with all the ridiculed backlash our president gets for talking about race - when he does talk about it (which isn't often) he just doesn't want to deal with it. Perhaps he is ill-advised on what to say about America's race problem when the issue does arise (as it will time and again). Many, self included, wonder if our President actually has African American advisers to coach (as it were) him throug...

Showing yet again, he really is bad at handling the race issue, and perhaps feeling just a bit too comfortable with the women of The View last week (in the presence of Sherry Shepherd and the agreeing Whoopi Goldberg who said Mel Gibson isn't a racist), President Obama calls African Americans "mongrels", saying, "We're all mixed up." We know that Obama, of mixed race heritage, (Who has been losing points in the polls.  I can't imagine this will help) meant that African Americans are made up of different races due to the heinous American robbery, enslavement, rape, and selling of African forefathers, that resulted in many mixed raced Africans here in America. What the president doesn't perhaps know is the definition of the word - mongrel.   So, we'll point it out for him here, courtesy of  dictionary.com . mon·grel    –noun 1. a dog of mixed or indeterminate breed. 2. any animal or plant resulting from the crossing of d...