by admin | Nov 18, 2006 | Politics
Jennifer Gratz one of the leaders in the fight against Affirmative Action in Michigan uttered the quote above in a Washington Post piece on end of Affirmative Action in Michigan. Of the one thing she got right–Affirmative Action was an extremely conservative...
by admin | Nov 17, 2006 | Education, NPR, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
My most recent commentary on NPR deals with the fallout from the defeat of Proposal 2 in Michigan, which would ban most forms of Affirmative Action in college admissions, hiring, and in awarding contracts. I think the effect on black enrollment at Michigan will be...
by admin | Nov 16, 2006 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
Usually on a miserable day like today I rely on self-medication. Like I did yesterday. But that alone isn’t cutting it, particularly after I just got back from talking about the devastating effect that the prison industrial complex is having on urban centers...
by admin | Nov 15, 2006 | Neoliberalism |
I’ve been reading Mat Johnson’s blog Niggerati.com since Tayari hipped me to it. In a recent post he tests whether Black Lit is for White People by looking at the type of black literature given prominent awards by mainstream literature critics. I’d...
by admin | Nov 13, 2006 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
even in the worse ways. part of me–the democratic theorist and actor–understands that part of my mission is to expand the ability of folks to speak their “special” truth, even when that “special” is “special” as in...
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