Chat live with Leonard Pitts Jr. from Noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays, or submit questions ahead of time.
Leonard Pitts Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004. He is the author of the novel, Before I Forget. His column runs every Sunday and Wednesday. Forward From This Moment, a collection of his columns, was released in 2009.
On Sept. 11, 2001, he wrote a column on the terrorist attacks that received a huge response from readers who deluged him with more than 26,000 e-mails. It was posted on the Internet, chain-letter style. Read the column and others on the topic of September 11.
You can also read Pitts' series, What Works?, a series of columns about programs anywhere in the country that show results in improving the lives of black children.
Leonard also wrote the 2008 series I Am A Man, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination.
Email Leonard at lpitts@MiamiHerald.com or visit his website at www.leonardpittsjr.com
Gay people, like black people, know how it feels to watch other people vote upon your very humanity.
The killers would have worn top hats. Having already murdered 102 African Americans, 14 by beheading, they would have driven at top speed toward Barack Obama, leaning from the windows of their vehicle, dressed in top hats and white tuxedos, firing guns.
They'll be back. Don't think for a minute that they won't.
"For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change." -- Michelle Obama, Feb. 18, 2008
"Be careful what you do, 'cause the lie becomes the truth."
He spoke of the promise before he spoke of the dream.
First I spent long moments trying to decide upon my greatest moral failing. Then I spent longer moments asking myself whether I'd really want to share that failing with an audience of millions.
A few words about the search for America.
Satire is tricky. It makes its point by exaggerating wildly with a straight face. In inflating a thing beyond all common sense or propriety, it seeks to render inconsistencies and hypocrisies glaringly apparent. Satire seeks truth in the ridiculous. For illustration, see any given episode of The Colbert Report.
It is not difficult to understand why Barack Obama has a fear of scarves.
Sure, I'll answer your question.
I keep thinking I should be mad at West Virginia.
My cousin thinks Jeremiah Wright walks on water.
I bet Hillary Clinton wishes Bob Johnson would stop trying to help her.
For a people so obsessed with race, we are exceptionally bad at talking about it.
Hillary Clinton is right. Barack Obama does not have the experience to be president of the United States.
A few words in defense of words.
I was 6 years old when John F. Kennedy was killed.
Barack Obama is not a Muslim.
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