by admin | Jan 25, 2007 | Democracy |
This time with an article from the Washington Post entitled Obama’s Appeal to Blacks an Open Question. On the one hand the article gives blacks credit for being relatively sophisticated enough not to simply support Obama because he is black. And there are very...
by admin | Jan 24, 2007 | Black People Mythology, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Politics, Racial Politics |
In a conversation relating to one of my previous posts, my man Spedy mentioned the bankruptcy bill. Shouldn’t people learn to pay for their mistakes? If people can’t learn to be efficient with their money instead of spending it on XBox 360s and the...
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...
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)...
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...
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