by admin | Feb 12, 2007 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
I had the opportunity this weekend to meet a brother I’ve thought of as a friend for at least five years–Jelani Cobb. Jelani was in the area promoting his new book and I got a chance to kick it with him a bit. We got to talking about nationalism and institutions–what...
by admin | Feb 11, 2007 | Black Leadership |
Taken from P6. Here’s the video: [youtube]FfX1rgrkh2Y[/youtube] Now Gordon doesn’t get it exactly right. When he talks about what black people have a tendency to do, he appears to talk about that tendency as if it were natural, or perhaps cultural. It isn’t. The...
by admin | Feb 1, 2007 | Democracy |
When damn near everyone was capitulating. When the media outlets gave Bush pass after pass after pass I only remember a few people who were willing to say that the emperor President had no clothes. One of them passed away today. To say she will be missed is a brutal...
by admin | Jan 31, 2007 | Neoliberalism |
I didn’t know Brandy Britton. But this was senseless. I’m mildly surprised that Rachel or perhaps Bitch, PhD didn’t pick this up. I was talking with my friend, an anthropologist about this. Anthropologists have to deal with the possibility of “going native” as...
by admin | Jan 30, 2007 | NPR |
I coined the phrase precarious* to reflect contemporary middle class life. Listen to my most recent NPR commentary to hear me talk about it.
by admin | Jan 26, 2007 | Afrofuturism |
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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 real...
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 like, then...
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 different argument. But...
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) The End of Blackness: From...
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