Right wing talk show host, Rush Limbaugh reiterated what he said during the 2008 Election when he said that Powell supported the candidate Barack Obama “because he’s Black” on his radio show.
After Colin Powell told CBS News “Face The Nation” that he wasn’t sure who he was going to vote for in the 2012 Election, Limbaugh said on his radio show that Powell will vote for President Obama in 2012 because “melanin is thicker than water.”
A fascinating and in-depth new survey of Muslim Americans from Pew has some very interesting results. It's difficult to summarize given the poll's length, but here's an excerpt from their press release:
David Stands With Song (L) and his mother Delores Windsong of the Cherokee Nation in New Jersey read a museum brochure in the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian at the National Mall September 21, 2004 in Washington, DC (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
When most Americans are reminded of the "Trail of Tears," the forced migration of Native Americans from their ancient homelands to what is now the state of Oklahoma, they conjure up images of thousands of downtrodden, defeated Cherokee suffering and dying as they trudged into the wilderness. Few know that also on that slow and deadly trek were roughly two thousand African-American slaves, the property of wealthy Cherokees.
