July 20, 2015: Wayne Bennett: Field Negro: When outrage gets selective.

Dec 3, 2014: Wayne Bennett: Field Negro: I can't breathe".

ON THE RECORD: Jan 2, 2014: Wayne Bennett, author over at Field Negro,  wrote an interesting post titled "Quoting Lincoln." It concerns what I have noticed is becoming a fairly common  internet phenomenon where quotes are attributed to people who never said it. A couple that come to mind are Sarah Palin saying "I can see Russia from my porch." Actually, Palin never said that. Tina Fey did on an SNL skit where she was playing Palin. Another one is CS Lewis saying "You don't have a soul. You are a soul." It is actually from an article where he was addressing excessive mourning at funerals  by a Scottish minister named  George MacDonald in 1892: “Never tell a child,” said George Macdonald, ‘you have a soul. Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.’ As we learn to think of things always in this order, that the body is but the temporary clothing of the soul, our views of death and the unbefittingness of customary mourning will approximate to those of Friends of earlier generations.” Anyway, Bennett notes that Arizona Republican Al Melvin put out a couple tweets: "You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help the weak by weakening the strong" and " You cannot further the brotherhood of many by inciting class hatred," both of which he attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Bennett writes: "Well, it turns out Lincoln never actually said those words. When the Arizona Daily Star asked Melvin about the misquotes, this is what he had to say. Melvin said he got the quotes from a Republican club newsletter.“It sounded good,” he said. “It seemed like it was something that he would say.”Told of the misattribution, Melvin said, “That’s news to me.” " A good reminder that we need to check our sources. .......Wayne Bennett, by the way, has been named blogger of the month by Black Enterprise.

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Jan 2, 2014: Black Enterprise: Black Blogger Month: The Field Negro, Nothing But the Truth
Lawyer by day and blogger by night, Wayne Bennett delivers his unbiased opinion on issues that impact the Black community at large

Jan 1, 2014: 2014

May 11, 2013: Suffer the little children, and Jason calls it quits.

Oct 18, 2007: Los Angeles Times:  Blogger goes into 'the fields'
An attorney joins a growing blogosphere to take on the role once reserved for ministers: setting black agendas and shaping opinion.