by admin | Mar 27, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, Urban Politics
What Tami Said.
by admin | Mar 24, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Black power is dead.
by admin | Mar 22, 2008 | Announcements, The Mass Media |
Minister Faust is an sf writer, a Pan-Africanist public intellectual, and a thinker deeply immersed in both the wisdom of the Ancients and the geo-political realities of the present day. And if it sounds like homeboy is from Detroit (or maybe brooklyn), you’re showing...
by admin | Mar 21, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Culture, Democracy, NPR, Obama, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
After a bit of a hiatus I was back on the barbershop doing the thing. Among the topics of discussion were Obama’s speech, Kilpatrick’s chances in Detroit, and the LeBron James Vogue cover with Gisele.
by admin | Mar 20, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, The Mass Media |
One of my colleagues (Adolph Reed) called Obama’s speech The Philadelphia Compromise, tying it to Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise. One of my friends argued that he gave a “placating speech.” I’d like to see Reed’s reasoning in full. But I could make the...
by admin | Mar 17, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
Everything has fallen apart — all his dreams, all his plans. He doesn’t have a job, and he’s three months behind on his bills, and he’s afraid of losing his house, and he can’t find any work, and he doesn’t feel like a man anymore, a real man, the guy who used to walk...
by admin | Mar 13, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBXD2zizIY[/youtube]
by admin | Mar 6, 2008 | Crime and Punishment, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
From David Simon (creator of The Wire): “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,” wrote Thomas Paine when he called for civil disobedience against monarchy — the flawed national policy of his day. In a similar...
by admin | Mar 5, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Racial Politics |
….but back enough to urge Obama supporters to check out this article. I’ve noted before that I don’t plan on voting for Clinton because her politics are too conservative. This was before she began to race bait Obama. I’m even less sure about Obama than what I...
by admin | Feb 27, 2008 | Announcements |
For those interested I will be giving a talk on Race and the 2008 Presidential Election tomorrow evening (6pm) at Occidental College. On Friday I will be giving a talk on my own research on HIV/AIDS and African American Public Opinion on Friday afternoon at UCLA. The...
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