http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2010 MiamiHerald.com Leonard Pitts Jr. 60 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:08:28 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1466095.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1466095.html Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:00 EST It is the enduring paradox of our centuries here.<p/> It is the paradox that stood its ground at Bunker Hill, paradox that made a doomed charge on Fort Wagner, paradox that stormed San Juan Hill, advanced through the Meuse-Argonne, landed on Iwo Jima, liberated Seoul and was taken prisoner in Hanoi. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1459836.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1459836.html Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:00 EST <span class="dropcap-large"></span><I>Come now, let us reason together...'' <I>Isaiah 1:18</I></I> http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1454250.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1454250.html Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:00 EST If he'd said it of Jews, he would still be apologizing. <p/> If he'd said it of blacks, he'd be on BET, begging absolution. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1447918.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1447918.html Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Don Lewis thinks white men can't jump.<p/> What else explains the bizarre statement he issued last week? According to the Chronicle newspaper of Augusta, Ga., Lewis is the commissioner of something called the All-American Basketball Alliance, which hopes to set up shop in 12 cities. ``Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league,'' his statement said. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1441244.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1441244.html Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Have you heard about the Jesus rifles?<p/> Islam.<p/> In the third place, the coded scriptural references provided a recruiting tool to warlords and terrorists who could truthfully tell followers they were being shot at by Jesus guns. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1434653.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1434653.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:00 EST As babies were being pulled, crushed and broken, from the rubble. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1428506.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1428506.html Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:00 EST One year later.<p/> One year after that icy Washington day when Aretha Franklin sang and John Roberts muffed his lines and Barack Obama raised his hand and swore the oath that made him president of the United States, it turns out something fundamental has changed. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1424766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1424766.html Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Sometimes, the earth is cruel. That is ultimately the fundamental lesson here, as children wail, families sleep out of doors, and the dead lie unclaimed in the rubble that once was Port-au-Prince. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1421970.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1421970.html Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Somebody please tell Harry Reid there are no Negroes in America. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1416471.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1416471.html Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:00 EST http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1411299.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1411299.html Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:00 EST On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a student from Nigeria, allegedly tried to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit. He failed due to some defect in his explosives and the quick reflexes of passengers who subdued him. As you might expect, this close call has some of us asking hard, but necessary questions: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1372604.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1372604.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:00 EST Afew days from now and not a moment too soon, we say farewell to the Ohs. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1366869.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1366869.html Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:00 EST Afew days from now and not a moment too soon, we say farewell to the Ohs.<p/> Once upon a time, it was common to debate names for this first decade of the new millennium. We'd seen the Gay Nineties, the Roaring Twenties, the Swinging Sixties, we'd endured the Me Decade, the Greed Decade, The War Years, and people wondered what nickname should be attached to the Ohs. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1360986.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1360986.html Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:00 EST You'd think it would be a simple question: How popular is Barack Obama? http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1355315.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1355315.html Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Please indulge me as I answer an e-mail from a guy named Dunbar. It says in part:<p/> ``Your column on Sammy Sosa's skin cream use is off base and sends a wrong message. The issue is the man's character -- not the color of his skin. Your column seemingly assumes he lightens his skin color out of shame and fails to recognize that he may simply be doing it out of vanity or his own sense of personal style. Plenty of fair-skinned people use skin-darkening creams, sun baths, tanning beds for that purpose and the only criticism leveled at them is vanity and stupidity for ignoring skin cancer warnings. The same should hold for Sammy. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1350699.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1350699.html Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:00 EST I wanna say I am somebody. I wanna say it on subway, TV, movie, LOUD. I see the pink faces in suits look over top of my head. I watch myself disappear in their eyes... I talk loud but still I don't exist.'' -- Precious http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1344557.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1344557.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ``We [should] wrap him in bacon and deep fry him at a state fair while Lee Greenwood stabs him in the face.'' -- Jon Stewart of The Daily Show on confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1338888.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1338888.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Dear Sammy Sosa:<p/> Are you happy with yourself now? Are you more confident and self-assured? When you look in the mirror, do you like yourself better, now that you are white? http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1333085.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1333085.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST They killed a killer last week.<p/> I kept waiting to feel something when news came that John Allen Muhammad had been executed in Virginia. As a staunch opponent of capital punishment, I wanted some nugget of remorse at the knowledge that the government had taken his life. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1327189.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1327189.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A sampling from the web:<p/> ``Why are these Muslim invaders allowed to carry on freely in this country -- protected by outreach, Obama, and PC mental illness?''