This is from December but it still applies. It wears me out defending being a conservative although I admit that the Republican party has let me down a lot not for lack of support of blacks but because of their general polici...

I can very much relate to this author's feelings although I did not grow up in the same circumstances as he did. My mother and father were both admirers of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Republicans. I grew up having to defend ...

EXCERPTS: In the course of an ongoing investigation into the root causes of the rising tide of violence and horrifying murder rate this year in Chicago’s most destitute neighborhoods, several video interviews I conducted with...