by Robert Parham | Nov 27, 2006 | Opinion
A column in the Tennessean generated 70 negative e-mails from the race-denying residents of Tennessee. The Nashville newspaper carried a statement about the defeat of Democratic senatorial candidate Harold Ford, in which I wrote: “Tennesseans looked at the...
by Robert Parham | Nov 9, 2006 | Opinion
Tennessee Democratic senatorial candidate Harold Ford gave perhaps the most spiritually insightful remarks of any political candidate on the night of the mid-term elections. In contrast, surrounded by wealthy, all-white Republicans, victor Bob Corker neither addressed...
by Robert Parham | Oct 31, 2006 | Opinion
Republicans have triggered their “Southern Strategy” in the Tennessee Senate race, as evidenced by a bare-shouldered white woman–an actress playing a blond Playboy bunny, who winks and whispers for African-American Democratic senatorial candidate...
by Robert Parham | Sep 21, 2006 | Opinion
No political race is more telling about state of race relations within American Christianity than the one in Tennessee, where an African-American Democratic congressman is running for a U.S. Senate seat against a white Republican former mayor, who was pro-choice until...