by admin | Oct 9, 2007 | Afrofuturism |
Ths is the singularity. The best fictional description of a society dealing with the consequences of the singularity is Accelerando. We’ve been operating under the general auspices of the early twentieth century even as we move deeper and deeper into the 21st....
by admin | Oct 8, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Education, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics |
I do not know if this new justice movement has legs, but I wrote earlier that this is about justice for EVERYONE that simply STARTS with black children. Trickle up politics at its best. In writing about the Shaquanda Cotton case many of us blogged (and Howard Witt...
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...
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