by admin | Oct 17, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Campaigns and Elections, Urban Politics |
A while back I noted the powerful black party discipline that attended Obama. Rather than take the opportunity to talk about ideas, about what we would actually want from an Obama presidency, we talked more about getting him over that electoral hump. To the point of...
by admin | Oct 15, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Obama |
You want to see an old school hip-hop inflected MC beatdown over the election? Read this.
by admin | Oct 11, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gender and Politics, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics, Racial Politics |
Will electing Obama matter? If it were Clinton rather than Obama, will electing her have mattered for women? Of course the default answer is yes. For scholars like Walter Benn Michaels? No. In 1947—seven years before the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of...
by admin | Oct 8, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazmVHAO0os[/youtube] The clip above is taken from the first televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon. I watched last night’s debate as did most of you. I thought that I’d take a moment to respond to some of the...
by admin | Oct 1, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy
I don’t think any of the black blogs I frequent have taken up this question: What else can you do with 700 billion? Adolph Reed has been pushing this free public college tuition thing. The numbers are old, so let’s say that instead of 23 billion,...
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