La Shawn Barber is a freelance writer and Townhall.com book reviewer who blogs at www.lashawnbarber.com. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:35:20 GMT Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:35:20 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ [V]irtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat. - Bruce Bartlett Democrats, seen as the civil rights party, supported slavery, opposed civil rights legislation, instituted the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2008/02/07/digging_up_democratic_skeletons 8e6e38f1-73e3-47e4-a65f-5d4c1eca02a4 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:35:20 GMT I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. - Harriet Tubman The physical chains of American slavery may be broken, but the mental chains are still there. That's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2008/01/22/mental_chains_and_civil_war 8e7c128e-1399-4784-bd7c-2926350b1e0f Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT When Ward Connerly - the engine behind state-to-state campaigns to end government-sanctioned racial discrimination - made a life-changing decision in the mid-1990s to raise the spirit of the true Civil Rights Movement,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/09/10/judge_tarnow's_political_axe 23280c7e-71b9-43f0-a047-81946d6c075e Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:00:50 GMT In a recent article, The Economist called blacks and Hispanics "natural allies." Citing Barack Obama's "brothers in the fight for equality" reference to the two groups, the writer conceded that with blacks and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/08/06/blacks_and_hispanics_natural_allies 92394bca-a208-4fe2-a387-c44d4da0bb8a Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:00:21 GMT Warning: This review contains MAJOR spoilers. Do NOT read if you don't want to know how the Harry Potter series will end, who will die, and who will survive.J.K. Rowling's epic tale about an orphan boy who discovers... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/07/30/harry_potter_and_the_inevitable_end 429b84ea-df03-437e-b5fe-7f07d2f3ac57 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:00:46 GMT King George's amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill has failed. It's time for state and local governments across the country to focus on individuals and businesses that hire illegal aliens. Our southern border will remain... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/07/09/states_fighting_back_on_illegal_immigration 7b1de12c-56ea-4657-abc6-a2680d32d2e0 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:00:05 GMT [B]eware of elites bearing racial theories. - Justice Clarence Thomas Last week the U.S. Supreme Court held that schools in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, could not use race as a tiebreaker when... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/07/02/black_pride,_white_paternalism 432037b8-0c26-4df1-b3b7-201be298c5e3 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:00:30 GMT Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. Forty-five years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the reciting of state-sponsored prayers in government schools - a matter that should... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/06/25/state-sponsored_school_prayer_and_the_constitution 5a2b082f-7744-4d5a-9d27-78d4f7e7f6ca Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:00:27 GMT Last year, an obscure prosecutor from North Carolina made a decision that would turn him into a national pariah and end his 28-year legal career. Black stripper Crystal Gail Mangum claimed that in the early morning... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/06/18/nifong's_swan_song 0dd8f07b-e255-43bb-a2e4-5bb532ecd577 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:00:29 GMT Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark Supreme Court case that declared Virginia's law against interracial marriage unconstitutional. Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving had to leave their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/06/11/interracial_marriage_slippery_slope 874fa8ea-ac07-40d2-b164-3e25ae0f4a12 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:01:39 GMT On the morning of March 2, 1998, a loser named Patrick Kennedy brutally raped his wife's eight-year-old daughter. Afterward, Kennedy called 911 and told the dispatcher that two black boys had raped the girl in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/06/04/death_to_child_rapists 9fb2da1c-caef-4a02-af95-32a3e0e196b2 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:00:24 GMT I first read the name "Carol Swain" while scanning a 2004 Boston Globe column by Cathy Young, who'd written about a panel discussion that took place around the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education - the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/05/31/low-income_blacks_and_illegal_immigration 0cac20f6-81a6-4a06-b536-5f76bf1edf63 Thu, 31 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT Last week, the House Committee on the Judiciary passed a bill that would expand the federal definition of so-called hate crime to add homosexuals and people confused about their gender to the list of protected classes.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/04/30/homosexuals,_hate,_and_the_gospel c7447ea3-7b9b-40aa-a5b0-add8cfc5c6ca Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:00:06 GMT In 1996, registered nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer told the House Subcommittee on the Constitution about a partial birth abortion she'd witnessed. A woman was six months pregnant with a baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/04/23/supreme_court_says_no_to_'intact'_infanticide 673d49ae-8da9-4d2d-8b13-702b2aa00ad5 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:00:16 GMT "Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due." - Justinian I, Roman Emperor of Byzantium It was like an episode of "Law & Order." Three, drunken, rowdy, privileged, elitist,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LaShawnBarber/2007/04/16/every_one_his_due 8d4e376f-b702-468c-ad71-be78b6af1f99 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:00:17 GMT