The legal argument that led to Zimmerman's acquittal could not exist without acceptance of racism as legitimate motive and Blackness itself as life threatening.
The states hardest hit by Katrina are for many African Americans our real home. Once again we are forced to face the fact that to politicians, black life is cheap.
My father's story represents the long tradition of black conservatism in this country. And if we are to truly understand the increasing number of African Americans joining their ranks, we will have to go back a lot further than this election.
Six weeks and more than a dozen front-page articles later, the New York Times series, How Race is Lived in America, ended this month as a major disappointment. Abandoning investigative journalism for storytelling, the Times' race coverage often trivialized racism as nothing more than personal relations.
