by admin | Nov 28, 2006 | NPR, The Mass Media |
In the wake of Cosby-like arguments damning black people for their condition, I thought it would be helpful to actually talk about the case of a single person who’d done all the right things, but still couldn’t get ahead. Listen to her story here.
by admin | Nov 26, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Black People Mythology, Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me
There’s an interesting discussion with two parts over at P6 about cooperative economics. The belief that black businesses will somehow lift black people from our place on the bottom rungs is driven by a mythical belief in the power of capitalism. If trickle-down...
by admin | Nov 18, 2006 | Sports
Bo Schembechler, the greatest sports figure in University of Michigan history passed away two days ago, before Michigan (#2) plays Ohio State (#1) in the 104th version of the greatest rivalry in college sports. It’s funny. Black students in general have the same...
by admin | Nov 18, 2006 | Politics
Jennifer Gratz one of the leaders in the fight against Affirmative Action in Michigan uttered the quote above in a Washington Post piece on end of Affirmative Action in Michigan. Of the one thing she got right–Affirmative Action was an extremely conservative...
by admin | Nov 17, 2006 | Education, NPR, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
My most recent commentary on NPR deals with the fallout from the defeat of Proposal 2 in Michigan, which would ban most forms of Affirmative Action in college admissions, hiring, and in awarding contracts. I think the effect on black enrollment at Michigan will be...
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