• A rare exhibit of African American art (including Romare Bearden's "Memories of High Cotton" ) is in the works in DC. See it if you can. [BS]

• Black voters are kind of "eh" about John Edwards. Don't tell Danny Glover that! [CO]

• Keith Murray was robbed while working in a South African studio, although I can't imagine the guy keeps very much on him in the way of money. [IOL]

• Lil Wayne's Morgan State "makin' it rain" case gets another plaintiff. [DR]

• Is racism still alive in Southern schools? Uh, are you kidding? [OS]

• TV One's on the come-up. Watch your back, BET. [CNN]

• Advertisements, shmadvertisements, or so we say. [MD]

• South Carolina blacks may vote for the Dems, but they aren't very liberal. [MBP]

• The Jena Six case is like 2007's version of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Although no one has to give up anything to say, "Free the Jena Six!" [USAT]

• My name and OJ Simpson's mentioned in the text of the same article? A dubious distinction, at best. [BS]

Outrage! Shock! Oh, nevermind. It's just Rush Limbaugh.

Democrats, he said, "want to get us out of Iraq but they can't wait to get us into Darfur."

What he said next, however, was brazenly out of context. "There are two reasons. What color is the skin of the people in Darfur? It's black. And who do the Democrats really need to keep voting for them? If they lose a significant percentage of this voting block, they're in trouble."

"The black population," said a caller, to which Limbaugh replied, "Right."

Perhaps he conveniently forgot the glaring differences between Iraq and Darfur or that not many Democratic politicians are in favor of sending a lot of troops there or that a lot of black voters are far more interested in how candidates are going to handle problems here than in how they're going to handle the ones in the Sudan. Or perhaps he's just grumpy because he was overdue for his Oxycontin fix. Either way, I see no reason to pay him any mind, except for the fact that millions of people do just that every day.

[DP]

Blacks continue to be the most important and sought after group of voters. Watching the way politicians vying for presidency pander to us is both remarkable and pretty annoying and insulting — even if they're dead serious (or think they are) about what they're saying.

Yesterday, presidential candidate and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson spoke before a group of 300 black mayors in Louisiana. He spoke about the need for governors and mayors to work more amicably together (citing the debacle that was post-Katrina as a worthy example) and offered general statistics about black Americans, as politicians so often do.

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