by admin | Jan 24, 2007 | Democracy, Racial Politics |
The other day I wrote about how some folks don’t believe that Obama is black. Now I’ve already noted Dickerson’s hypocrisy, but I should hasten to say that she isn’t alone. Stanley Crouch is on the same page, though to be fair he makes a subtly different argument. But...
by admin | Jan 22, 2007 | Democracy |
I knew it wouldn’t be long before someone wrote a piece like questioned Obama’s blackness. What surprises me mildly is that the person is Debra Dickerson. Here’s a small snippet from a review of Dickerson’s first book entitled (oddly enough) The End of Blackness: From...
by admin | Jan 20, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Mat Johnson’s cooking with gas. I don’t know how I got put down with Niggerati Manor. Probably Tayari. Yes. Tayari. I see a great deal of promise in the explosion of Urban Fiction. But for writers like Mat and Tayari, this promise is fraught with…I wouldn’t call it...
by admin | Jan 18, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Black Power, Democracy |
Obama plans on running. One of my colleagues sends me an article. Turns out he doesn’t exactly move “civil rights leaders”. Now I put the term in quote because while the article talks about civil rights leaders in the aggregate it only quotes a few. While this type of...
by admin | Jan 12, 2007 | Black Power, Culture, Hip-hop |
Just a question. For what it is worth, I don’t believe I ever have.
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