Dr. Ron Walters

With lightening speed, President Barack Obama has moved from Stimulus Package to a Home Foreclosure package, to working on the financial bailout package, and now to the Budget. In his recent speech to Congress he said something that most people who know anything about government agree with: the budget is not only about spending dollars…

I understand that several Republican governors, such as Haley Barbour of Mississippi, are considering refusing money from the Stimulus package. Well, at this writing I am in the Mississippi Delta on a poverty tour arranged by Antionette Harrell, a courageous African American woman from New Orleans and what we are seeing definitely marks such actions…

By now, it should be clear to everyone that the change called for by the American people in the election of 2008 will be difficult to come by because it will not be gained by President Barack Obama simply waving a wand. Once this fight to enact the Stimulus Package is over, he will claim…

President Barack Obama’s pledge to bring America together and specifically attempt to work across party lines with Republicans in the governing process was laudable, but I always wondered if it would work. The principle reason is that the key to Republican power has been their remarkable clarity of ideology and the party discipline behind it.…

I’m not sure we are covered by the current appointments. It depends on how President Barack Obama intends to govern. Since 1964 there have been 13 black cabinet appointments, one third of them by Bill Clinton and another third by George Bush, and the rest spread among the other presidents. Most of these appointments were…

Ethics are important in government and if Roland Burris had received his appointment to the U. S. Senate as a result of a discovered deal with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich I would have been the first to reject it. However, we have just gone through an election in which Barack Obama did not really choose…

The current issue is always free to everyone Should a new post-Civil Rights Movement leadership identity be fashioned for the NAACP? That is the big question raised by last week’s cover story in BlackCommentator.com : “The Role of the Black Elite in Outreaching to the Black Lower Class, And How It Relates to the National…