Dr. Ron Walters

Much of what I feel about the monumental crisis in Haiti is similar to the Katrina hurricane in that it was a man-made event waiting to happen. Haiti has existed in the backwater of the most powerful country in the world for 200 years as the poorest example of human hospitality. Since the defeat of…

I think that the pundits and the public should face up to one fact. The mess that President Barack Obama inherited will not be fixed in one year, or two or possibly even during his entire term. That makes it exceedingly difficult to determine, in this time framework, especially through the screen of the constant…

Attorney General Eric Holder in a few recent speeches at the Roosevelt, NY Memorial Presbyterian Church, at a church in Queens, NY, and at a Townhall meeting at Morehouse College in Atlanta has rehashed the theme of the irresponsible black male. It seems like something of a campaign by President Barack Obama and his Attorney…

As one of the first to defend President’s Obama’s selection for the Nobel Peace Prize, I also believe that his speech was much more than an adequate expression of the contradictions in which he found himself by being selected. The first contradiction was created by the fact that Obama was selected by the Nobel Committee…

It was somewhat painful to write the above headline since I, along with 16 million blacks who voted for Barack Obama, did so partly on the strength of the belief that he would indeed understand and take seriously the needs of the black community. Such headlines are sweeping the country depicting his response to the…

I wasn’t too surprised when I read a report on Politico that in over 30 of the probes the new Office of Congressional Ethics was considering, the only active investigations were on black Congresspersons. That is the way institutional racism is supposed to work. During the 2008 presidential campaign, when Congressional ethics and corruption hit…

It’s a good thing President Obama will be having a jobs summit because the recovery of the African American community from a recession, as part of the general recovery of the national employment picture, is not assured. My view is that this will be a grand opportunity to figure out how to boost job growth…

There. I made up a title for the fact that the recent November elections were essentially about the socioeconomic status of voters as the primary factor in their decisions. We know already that in by-year and mid-term elections after a major presidential election, the winner’s party most often loses seats. So, why the excitement? The…

I do not understand those people who criticize the President for taking his time to get public policy right, when much of the misery that has come to visit their lives is a result of public policy, in both the domestic and international arenas, formulated by the previous administration, that was founded on distorted information,…