Saturday, February 28, 2009

Live Blogging At Tavis Smiley's State of The Black Union


Who's Accountable For Black America 10 Years Later

I'm here in Los Angeles for the 10th Annual State of the Black Union and it's getting ready to officially start. Tavis Smiley and Tom Joyner kicked it off.

Host Raymond Brown leads the discussion with Congressman Maxine Waters, Law Professor Charles Ogletree, Journalist Stephanine Robinson, Prosectot Peter Harvey, Columnist Michelle Singletary, Urban League President Marc Morial, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Rev. Dr. Iyanla Vanzant, Motivational Speaker Les Brown, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dr. Tricia Rhodes are the morning panelists.

Everyone talks about how post-racial America is now that we have an African American president. While Barack Obama is the Commander-in-Chief, we still have this issue of post-racial versus post racist.

Per NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Attorney General Eric Holder and Rev. Jesse Jackson are living in some distant past.

Michael Eric Dyson just stated he doesn't want to stop being black.

Here we go!!!