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, it’d cost 30 billion...
by admin | Oct 1, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama |
Today’s Washington Post had what appears to be a no-brainer on the front page: “Blacks forming Rock-Solid Bloc Behind Obama”. Of course we are. We tend to vote democratic anyway, and the current GOP ticket leaves much to be desired for a liberal democratic leaning...
by admin | Sep 25, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Gender and Politics, Hip-hop, Obama, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
Byron Hurt has a new project examining black masculinity and the jump off point is a question about the connection between Barack Obama and Curtis Jackson (50 Cent). Trailer no. 2: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEOT4wAetzY[/youtube] I am going to come back...
by admin | Sep 24, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Gender and Politics, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
I was in Boston (and not blogging much) at our annual political science convention when they announced Palin as the pick. I was standing next to Wilbur Rich and my man Harwood. I laughed aloud. A brilliant pick. Young, charismatic, and committed to the particular...
by admin | Sep 23, 2008 | Culture, Pop Culture, The Mass Media
The Emmy’s were on a couple of nights ago. I made a decision to boycott (yeah, like I watch it anyway) once I found out that in its last year the Wire only received one nomination. One of Ta-Nehisi’s readers thinks that the reason is because white viewers couldn’t...
by admin | Sep 21, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
First things first. After a few years of slogging I am ten days away from sending my book STARE IN THE DARKNESS: RAP, HIP-HOP, AND BLACK POLITICS to publishers. This is why I have blogged infrequently…. I’m on a black email list with a couple of conservatives. Now...
by admin | Aug 17, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
Hey, I’ve a question. Over the last 40 years, how many times have African Americans played or become the President in popular media (movies, television shows, comedy skits, comic books, literature)? Dennis Haybert (24) Tiny Lister (The Fifth Element) James Earl Jones...
by admin | Aug 12, 2008 | Education, NPR, The Mass Media |
But it’s not this Spence but that one. The number of black homeschoolers has been shooting through the roof, in part because of the increase in black Christian families interested in embedding Christian principles in education, but also because of a sense that public...
by admin | Aug 8, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Gender and Politics, Obama, Politics, The Mass Media |
Here’s an essay on black politics that contains almost every worn out cliché on the subject. I’m glad that the folks at Rust Belt Intellectual wrote a response. Feministing pointed out the absence of women, which is actually astounding given that the number of black...
by admin | Aug 5, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
This was the subject of at least three blog posts worth reading. The New York Times post falls furthest from the mark, but I include it for the sake of comparison. I don’t think the question is the right one. Nor is “is Clinton racist?” The question for me is, how has...
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