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Robert McClendon was sentenced to prison in  for a rape of a child he did not commit. He was   convicted although there was no pyhsical evidence tying him to the crime. This man spent 18 years in prison labeled as a child pervert and probably had to fight eveyday to stay alive. Thank God for the Innocence Project taking up his case and finally getting a DNA test done that cleared the man. Read the entire story by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Mark Penn the top campaign strategist in the failed the Hillary Clinton Campaign wanted to attack Barack Obama's heritage and make it seem as if he were not "American" enough to be President of the United States. He surmised in a memo that since Obama lived part of his life in Hawaii and Indonesia they could paint him as less "American" . Thankfully Hillary never took that advise and that plan never got off the ground. Click the link below to read parts of the memo:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

What a very sad weekend. First we had the passing of Bernie Mac and now today music icon Isaac Hayes has passed. Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Schular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department. Read more by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Under the Section 8 federal housing voucher program, thousands of poor, urban and often African-American residents have left hardscrabble neighborhoods in the nation's largest cities and resettled in the suburbs.

Law enforcement experts and housing researchers argue that rising crime rates follow Section 8 recipients to their new homes, while other experts discount any direct link and think racism may be playing a factor. Read the story of one town Antioch CA. by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html