Dr. Ron Walters

Editor’s note: Ron Walters wrote this commentary for Issue 364 of BC that was published on February 25, 2010. Brother Ron died September 10, 2010. My friend George Curry reminded me of something in his article on “Being True to Black Historymakers” when he said that in this year when we celebrate the 50th anniversary…

The case of Shirley Sherrod, who was fired from her job at the Department of Agriculture for being charged by Andrew Breitbart, a white nationalist, with making a racist speech at a March NAACP conference is on its way to being respectfully resolved. Breitbart had placed an edited eight minute video of Ms. Sherrod’s speech…

It was another right-on-time moment that Ben Jealous exercised at the NAACP Convention in calling out the Tea Party for coddling elements of racism within their midst. The Convention went on to passed a resolution to this effect, calling on the leadership of the party to repudiate these elements, but it will not become official…

The big story about the NAACP convention meeting in Kansas City was whether President Obama would come or not. But I think that Ben Jealous hit the right nerve in his opening speech to the Convention when he delivered a report that organization had put together from a series of meetings in affected communities in…

At Elena Kagan’s Senate nomination hearings to be the next Supreme Court Justice, I admit to being somewhat surprised when Senator Kyle saw her clerkship with Justice Thurgood Marshall as an opening to define her as being a potentially “activist judge.” Although conservatives had often made that charge, they had not been explicit in naming…

As part of the current unemployment crisis, at last look there were 453,000 claims for insurance, a number that is likely to surge when part-time government workers employed on the Census end their term this summer. Yet, there probably is no greater indication of the radical extreme to which the Republican party has become than…

I hear some folks saying they want to take back their country. I want to take back our jobs. I have just read a study produced by Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the performance of Stimulus funding which shows that it has taken many of the “shovel-ready” projects that were proposed 18 months ago…

When Artur Davis, savvy member of the Congressional Black Caucus, filed to run for Governor of the State of Alabama it provoked one of the biggest head-scratching discussions among Blacks in Washington, DC. Was he smoking something they mused, was it a case of unmitigated arrogance for which politicians are too well known, or was…