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Bob Ray Sanders and White Robes/Black Robes While the DNC was getting its Italian slur campaign ginned up, Fort Worth Star Telegrapg columnist Bob Ray Sanders was warming up the racist accusations. Last week, in an entry on his blog for the paper, Sanders wrote: [G]et ready for the next nominee, who is likely to be a judge as comfortable in a white robe as a black one.I received an e-mail asserting that Sanders applied the "white sheet" slander to Judge Alito on a Dallas television show this morning. Today I interviewed Sanders, who denied saying that about Judge Alito....

Bloodthirsty. That is the only way to describe what is going on in McAlester, Okla., where Terry Lynn Nichols is standing trial on state charges stemming from the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people. Believe me, I understand the magnitude of the crime and its effect on individuals, a city and an entire country. I have been to the site where a federal building once stood and imagined the impact of the massive bomb that destroyed it -- killing all those people, wounding so many others, shattering the lives of those who knew and loved them and permanently scarring the...

Prejudice in fast-food ad ruins appetiteBob Ray Sanders commentary Maybe it is because the country has been immersed in the saga of U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., that a currently running fast food TV commercial hit me the wrong way when I first saw it Sunday afternoon.But I think not.No, the more I think of the ad -- designed to get the viewer to try two new sandwiches offered by the restaurant chain -- the more I'm convinced that it is a not-so-subtle play on the overt racial discrimination that once was the norm in this country.I'm so offended, in...