I sat down and spoke Thursday with Pastor Ron Covington of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church on the Indianapolis Mayor’s race.  Democrat Melina Kennedy had just met with Covington and about a dozen other ministers. He commented on her visit as well as the state of the Mayor’s race from the perspective of the Black Church.  […]

I have never been a fan of identity politics.  If you are not sure what that term means, identity politics is when an individual’s political philosophy is shaped by their identity to a race, gender, sexual orientation or some other immutable trait.   In college I was very skeptical of the people who ran around screaming […]