... organization please? Pretty please?

I know I've heard rumblings about it. But we need a fully operational battle station, soon -- there's no time to dawdle on this. AIPAC has had the microphone to itself for too long.

Thoughtful post.

This is the second State of the Black Union conference, IIRC. Smiley held the first at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church -- full disclosure, I used to go there -- which some of you might know for its pastor's fondness for Bush.

Why doesn't Smiley have an infrastructure to keep a permanent discussion going? The internet makes that possible -- and that strategy makes more sense, to me, than limiting talks to a confab of the great and the good held once a year. You should be pressuring him rather than Tom Joyner, Matt, since Joyner -- AFAIK -- sees himself primarily as an entertainer, rather than a journalist/leader.

Oh, and re: ExxonMobil: corporate greenwashing has a storied history in the African-American community. Remember AT&T buying off black state legislators over net neutrality?

And also ... http://www.erickerickson.org/blog/index. php/2005/04/22/common-sense-protection-a gainst-voter-fraud/

Better link on Erickson's parentage of the voter ID bill: http://www.erickerickson.org/blog/index. php/2005/01/29/client-in-the-news/