by admin | Oct 6, 2007 | Education, Sports, Urban Politics |
This story is interesting to me for a couple of different reasons. I went to school in Dearborn. Beginning in the sixties Chaldeans moved into Dearborn from the Middle East to work at Ford. But Dearborn stayed more or less 90% white until the mid to late eighties. A...
by admin | Oct 6, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
This is Mafia K1 Fry. The track is called “Pour Ceux” (“For Those”). The group reminds me a lot of the Wu. Even if you can’t understand French (I can translate on the written page ok, but I can’t translate from hearing it) you...
by admin | Oct 4, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Education, Racial Politics |
Kimberly Wilder is a member of the Green Party of New York, and is an education advocate AND activist. She wrote a piece on Jena from her standpoint as both a white progressive and an education advocate and gave me a heads up about it. A quote: One piece of logic...
by admin | Oct 3, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture |
Picked this up through Open Culture: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3zJqihkLcGc” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Needless to say…this is hip-hop.
by admin | Oct 1, 2007 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Democracy, Education, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
Yesterday while writing about Jena, and Paris, I noted the role of the black media (talk radio, journalists, black bloggers) in rendering rural racism transparent. (As an aside I’d like to check on whether there has been an attempt to differentiate between...
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