Here you go:
- Russia and U.S. Report Breakthrough on Arms Pact — Obama and Medvedev have achieved a dramatic breakthrough in negotiations, and now expect to sign a new treaty in Prague next month that would slash American and Russian nuclear arsenals.
- US-Israel talks fail to solve row — Summit between Barack and Bibi fail to end tensions over settlements, failing to end what the BBC terms “the worst crisis in US-Israeli ties for decades.” Meanwhile the settlements move forward.
- Black lawmakers urging football recruits to not play at USC — This story combines three incredible things: 1) that there is no black USC trustee; 2) that black caucus members could be THIS petulant about the fact; and 3) that anyone would care who plays or doesn’t play at USC. Well, at least No. 3 is meaningful to me.
- GoDaddy.com plans to stop registering domain names in China — The world’s largest domain name registration company (it’s where I bought “bradwarthen.com”) isn’t going to leave Google out there hanging, but will refuse to put up with “new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, including photographs of themselves.”
- Actor Robert Culp Dead at 79 — Remember “I Spy,” which launched Bill Cosby?
- Parents’ smoking gives 15,000 children a year asthma, doctors warn — And that’s just in the UK, according to a new study.
Also-rans: Neither of these significant stories quite made the front: Pope Accepts Irish Bishop’s Resignation in Abuse Scandal; and Saudis Arrest 113 Militants Said to Have Qaeda Ties. The smoking thing bumped them both…
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Sports Night: Isaac and the Confederate flag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm0e1y5l028
“It was very important to my parents and to their parents that I would be the first in my family to attend college. But I can’t imagine that any of them would feel anything but shame and humiliation at the sight of me playing football under that flag.”
and there’s a flap about no black USC trustees any more, too.
Maybe if the folks in power around here would get over the fact that Obama won and the Democrats hold a majority, and get around to addressing how to move SC out of the 19th century….
Just to make sure I’m following your line of reasoning, Kathryn.
Are you saying the Legislature should go out and elect a black trustee because Barack Obama is president?
Is that how Barack Obama got to BE president? Absolutely not. He got elected on merit. The country didn’t say, let’s find us a black guy to vote for. He persuaded the country that he, Barack Obama (a guy I don’t even think of as black, but that’s a separate conversation), was the best person for the job.
When we endorsed him for the Democratic nomination, it wasn’t because he was black, any more that we did not choose Hillary Clinton because she was a woman. Such motives, to me, would be completely unacceptable.
Now if you’re saying that if everything were as it should be in South Carolina we’d HAVE some black trustees, just as a matter of course, I’ll say you’re right. But bringing up Obama seems a total red herring to me.
Oops, no–I meant “Now if you’re saying that if everything were as it should be in South Carolina we’d HAVE some black trustees, just as a matter of course, I’ll say you’re right.”
The Obama bit is just lingering annoyance that the legislature is doing everything but what it ought to be doing, which is figure out how to do all the good things you and Cindi have suggested over the years. The latest outrage is how hard they are trying to undo the health care legislation, which many commentators think is in large part because they cannot get over Obama, including requiring the AG to sue (separation of powers?–oh well, I guess the Segars-Andrews suit laid any thought of worrying about that to rest. The legislature is the 800# gorilla.)
No, I think the legislature is sure suspect insofar as it cannot find a single black trustee it likes, despite an apparently worthy candidate. I mean, how many trustees are there? Maybe they could even have [gasp] two black ones?!?!
I don’t think they should be forced into accepting the black woman, except that there is perhaps a reason to be concerned that over the years they haven’t managed more than one black member at a time. Even the US Supremes have [gasp] two women!