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I am so excited that after 8 years of hard work - my magnum opus The Righteous Sin is complete!! I can't wait to share it with the world and welcome your feedback. I created a novel that seeks to have the reader looking at the way they view the world, love, faith, and sin. Save the date as we officially launch the book November 15th 4pm at the Loft Hotel, Downtown Atlanta, GA. Please check out my website www.therighteoussin.com for details. Thanks everyone

I just read your post from a while back and it still brings me back to my point that Tavis' reach is diminished due to a lack of creativity and integration with grassroots resources. He could quickly parlay his current platform into a national media outlet, but he won't. He must not be interested in doing any more than he is. When I look at the titles he published he did the same thing other publishers do and that's publish the same old stuff. In regard to his website, why not simply go in and turn it into a really nice Wordpress and begin blogging everyday? Why not make a call for writer's and become a small media outlet? Why not hook up with AALBC as it changes its platform and integrate/work with you? Tavis doesn't give the President a pass... I don't give him a pass. I only need a tenth of the reach that Tavis has and I could do incredible work and impact work. I know for a fact if you simply had the backing of 100 indie writers you would kill it! This dude has a huge platform and the President not attending doesn't mean a darn thing to me as the focus should have always been grassroots. If Tavis decided tomorrow to create a platform for Black tech startups he'd be funded a ridiculous amount of money. If he decided to do a "huffpost" type situation it would be huge. What hasn't he done this?

I don't know if he's marginalized. He had a really strong platform with his Covenant, but he didn't continue moving forward with it. As a matter of fact if you go to the Covenant website the clickthrough goes to a porn site when you click for a check on progress. I don't think he made his movement enough of a grassroots movement where he involved people on the ground and continued to shape the project. He is also hindered by his time slot on PBS for his show. I don't think many people even realize he is still doing a television show. I think his marginalization happened due to his rift with Tom Joyner more than it does his opinion of Obama.

I really don't understand the comment by the pastor myself re: black women/white men etc., maybe I did not read it right or something. But it sounded pretty lame in my opinion. First of all he does not know all Black women/Black men so therefore, should not generalize. You know what, I think I will just stop typing now lol, because to try to makes sense of this would prove a bit exhausting. :-)