<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/kingcolbert?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><description>Colbert I. King</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Hijacking Christianity . . .]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10688-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10688-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The American flag was appropriated by the political right wing years ago. Now the Christian right is trying to hijack religion. This time it shouldn't be allowed to happen without a fight.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Right Tony Williams Question]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57773-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57773-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Dust-ups over national and global issues remain daily fare in the nation's capital. But the local political scene in Washington is dominated by a single question that lies beyond the reach of Congress and the White House: Will D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams run for a third term next year? Only Williams knows. But when it comes to the mayor's political future, D.C. residents also have a dog in this hunt. For them, the question is not "will he" but  "should he?" Where you stand on that question may depend on where you sit.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not So United After All]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38703-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38703-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The outpouring of ecumenism around the death of Pope John Paul II may last for a while; where it will be a month from now is another matter. Despite the comity among religious people that was witnessed this week in Rome, the fissures separating the faithful may be greater than the theological agreements uniting them.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race and Baseball in D.C.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20063-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20063-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Anticipating tomorrow's appearance of the Washington Nationals baseball team at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium after a 34-year absence, The Post ran a story last Sunday on the fading image of the black ballplayer in the African American community. The piece touched all the right bases: the demise of the Negro Leagues, the allure of faster-paced football and  basketball, the dearth of admirable black baseball players compared with black talent in the NBA and NFL, and the failure of Major League Baseball to market the game to African Americans.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tainted Easter Message]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2215-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2215-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   This is an Easter season story with all the makings of an uplifting message, except for one thing: At the end, there is no victory. To be sure, this account contains elements of despair, pain, sacrifice, hope and an unselfish devotion to the powerless. There's also international intrigue linking a central Pennsylvania community to a distant village in East Africa. But coming at the time of Christianity's central event, this is, in essence, a tragic tale of ignorance, bigotry and love unreturned.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolfowitz's Tough Tasks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48482-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48482-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Before the sun could set on Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz's first day as President Bush's nominee to be president of the World Bank, the e-mails started arriving. The first, from the online Nation magazine, produced this item from David Corn's Capital Games column: "The Wolfowitz nomination is a win for the Pentagon but a loss for the world. Wolfowitz's achievement as a warmonger may say little about his views on international development, but his record on Iraq is one of miscalculation and exaggeration. And the poor of the world deserve a World Bank president with better judgment."]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[My City in a Different Light]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28528-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28528-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   PARIS  --  Sometimes the best way to get a good perspective on your hometown's problems is to leave for a while. No sooner had my wife, Gwen, and I reached the United Airlines lounge at Dulles Airport last week than a story in the New York Times caused me to see the District of Columbia in a different light.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Affront to the First Amendment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8732-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8732-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A hard-hitting column by a newspaper opinion writer is not exactly news. But when an organization dedicated to protecting First Amendment rights takes out after a columnist for exercising his freedom of expression, that indeed is newsworthy. What's more, it's outrageous. And that is exactly what occurred last Saturday on The Post's Free for All page, when, in a letter to the editor, Kevin M. Goldberg, general counsel of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, tore into Metro columnist Marc Fisher for a piece he wrote about Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s gag order against two Baltimore Sun journalists.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Really Needs Fixing in the D.C. Schools]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54791-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54791-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Looking back on the week, D.C. School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey might wish to recall the possibly apocryphal words attributed to Gen. George Armstrong Custer when he found himself surrounded by Lakota and Cheyenne Indians at the Little Big Horn: "I've had better days." Clearly, that is true in Janey's case.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Redder, for Bluer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36619-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36619-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Last week's column about unconventional marriages may have left the impression that I was writing only as a neutral observer. T'ain't so. Count me among those who are in relationships that do not conform to customary practices.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage in the March of Time]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17600-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17600-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  There's really no telling what the 29 black intellectuals who met 100 years ago in Niagara Falls would think of America today. Of course, the same might be said of Americans in the year 2105 who look back to see how we lived out our lives a century before. There's good reason, however, to believe that the 29 men, led by W.E.B. Du Bois, then a professor at Atlanta University, would hardly recognize this as the same country.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bridging the Great Divide (Cont'd)]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64950-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64950-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The state of the Union may be "confident and strong," as President Bush said the other night, but it is also full of people as prickly as porcupines. At least that's my impression based on responses to my Jan. 29 column, "Bridging the Great Divide."]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bridging the Great Divide]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45983-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45983-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The top domestic news over the last week has been pretty much the 55th presidential inauguration and confirmation battles on Capitol Hill. But what shows up on the tube at 6 and 11 o'clock  doesn't necessarily consist of the most significant doings in town. For example, two Washington events leading up to George Bush's Big Bash completely escaped the camera's eye. In the long run, however, they could be every bit as consequential as the president's Inauguration Day declarations  or the confirmation votes.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the Crass Remarks About Rice?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27818-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27818-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer pursued a curious line of attack during Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearing this week. Rice, one of the principal architects of the administration's Iraq policy, was clearly vulnerable to charges of helping produce a misguided, if not misleading, rationale for the Iraqi invasion, as well as poor postwar planning. Saddam Hussein clearly was not the threat Rice had proclaimed. Her paper trail of misstatements virtually invited a congressional attack on her record. But Boxer, rather than sticking to Rice's performance as national security adviser and her qualifications to direct U.S. foreign policy, chose instead to gratuitously characterize her as a Bush loyalist who was blindly parroting pro-Iraqi war lines without regard for whether they were true.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Specter at Thursday's Party]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10921-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10921-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Come next Thursday Republicans will dance the night away, as is their due. To the victor goes the right to boogie, and George W. Bush and company earned their evening of fun and frolic  at the polls in November. That said, there is a case to be made for a show of restraint and humility during the nation's 55th presidential inauguration. After all, when it comes to the war in Iraq, it's not as if accountability got a fair shake on Election Day.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning a Deaf Ear to the Displaced]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57869-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57869-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Drive-by news gathering, which passes as journalism today, conveys a superficial and misleading picture of gentrification in the nation's capital. The stories tell nothing of the wrenching consequences of people being pushed out of their neighborhoods. But how would those journalists know? They've never lived through the process of gentrification, and they don't spend nearly enough time in the community getting to know what they write about. Facile writers with clueless editors can get away with anything.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Test for Tolerance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40034-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40034-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   New Year's Day is not exactly the best time to pass along bad news, but as John Wayne famously said, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do." Or, to put it in modern, non-gender specific terms, "One does as one must," which, admittedly, doesn't sound half as cool, but why begin this column by antagonizing some folks? Rest assured, that will come further down the page.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Take Your Pick and Start Somewhere']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25136-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25136-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   At a pre-dawn gathering on Wednesday morning, our small group of six, led by associate   rector Ruth Anne Garcia, recited a portion of Psalm 72, including the 7th verse: "In his time shall the righteous flourish; there shall be abundance of peace till the moon shall be no more." Ah, but when? Not this Christmas.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stepping Up to the Plate for the City]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9248-2004Dec17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9248-2004Dec17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>  "Thanks for that stupid woman that you call council member to vote against the baseball stadium. Do you really think that that dumbass jungle monkey and her socialist ways is going to win? Why are you people full of envy for upstarting and growing a community that needs something like this? No wonder so many of you kill each other, none of you don't have brains and feed off like animals. Nice job socialists!!!!"</em>]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missing Answers About Jonathan Magbie]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56425-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56425-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/kingcolbert</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The first thing you notice when you read the D.C. Health Department's report into the death of 27-year-old quadriplegic Jonathan Magbie is that several critical pieces of information have been blacked out. The second thing that becomes obvious is that while the Health Department correctly points an accusing finger at Greater Southeast Community Hospital for giving Magbie substandard care, the report gives the medical staff at the Corrections Department a pass, even though the jail's doctors failed to make it clear to the hospital that Magbie could not be properly cared for at the Correctional Treatment Facility. Third, the report raises as many questions as it answers. And finally, you can't help wishing that Superior Court Judge Judith Retchin would read the report too, because there is no way on earth that a human being in Magbie's condition, and a first-time offender found guilty of simple possession of marijuana, should have been sent to a place such as the D.C. jail.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item></channel></rss>
