If the Obama White House believes the controversy surrounding the administration’s engagement with Congressman Joe Sestak, D-Pa., will “go gently into that goodnight,” they are sorely mistaken. The more we Americans learn of the affair, the more questions we have.

In February of this year, cable talk-show host Larry Kane asked Sestak if the Obama administration had offered him a job if he would abandon his primary campaign against Sen. Arlen Specter. The story had apparently been floating around the Washington press corps for many months, yet no one had bothered to ask Sestak if it were true. Sestak responded, “Yes.” Kane followed up by asking if the job was “big.” To this question, Sestak also responded, “Yes.”

(NNPA)—When Artur Davis, savvy member of the Congressional Black Caucus, filed to run for governor of the state of Alabama it provoked one of the biggest head-scratching discussions among Blacks in Washington, D.C. Was he smoking something they mused, was it a case of unmitigated arrogance for which politicians are too well known, or was it just a case of taking the new ideology of post-racialism for a ride in one of the toughest arenas in the country?

(NNPA)—“I am, therefore, asking the Congress to enact legislation giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public—hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments. This seems to me to be an elementary right.” President John F. Kennedy, June 11, 1963

On Memorial Day the nation paused to remember the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who fought and died in wars so that all of us could live free. One of the saddest ironies of American history is the fact that in spite of slavery and racism, African-Americans have given the last full measure of their devotion in every armed conflict since the Revolutionary War. That extraordinary patriotism, coupled with the civil rights leadership of Dr. King and others, was a major force in the movement to abolish legalized segregation culminating in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Since its passage, hardly anyone, much less a candidate for the United States Senate, has questioned the legal and moral soundness of that law, until now.

Dear Editor:

It has been most troubling to me as an annual contributor, and to the many avid fans of WDUQ Radio (DUQ 90.5 FM), that this great station may be leaving the airways, at least in its present form.

TIM STEVENS

I listen to this station literally every morning, and usually at various times throughout the day. The blend of news and jazz has had tremendous appeal to me, and apparently to close to about 270,000 other fans of this media gem. I really can’t imagine not hearing the melodic voices of Tony Mowod and Bob Studebaker, as well the other excellent hosts such as Helen Wigger, bringing this community the sounds of this nation’s original art form, jazz!