The Congressional Black Caucus Institute has postponed its scheduled Nov. 4 black voter forum for Republican presidential candidates, according to HuffPo. A CBCI spokeperson noted that “Republican candidates have cited scheduling conflicts in resisting new proposed dates.” This is the second time major GOP candidates have skipped out on black folk — Romney, Giuliani, McCain and Thompson all passed on a Tavis Smiley-hosted forum in September. [HuffPo]

And what will make tonight’s debate so awesome? No Rudy Giuliani! No Walnuts McCain! No Mitt Romney! And of course, like always, no Hollywood Fred Thompson. It will basically be Tavis Smiley and Ron Paul politely calling each other racists while a hostile all-black crowd watches, with hostility. Oh yeah, and we also get a special appearance by Alan Keyes, who will boldly stand up for Tom Tancredo and call everybody else racists. MORE »

Have you heard about the presidential candidate debates? There have been more than a hundred debates so far, with hundreds more to come. One such debate will be held at the “historically black college in Baltimore.” It is for the Republicans, but front-runners Mitt and Rudy and Walnuts were all “No thanks, black people,” and now Hollywood Fred Thompson has shown his conservative “bona fides” by also refusing to speak to the black people. MORE »