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...
by admin | Nov 16, 2006 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
Usually on a miserable day like today I rely on self-medication. Like I did yesterday. But that alone isn’t cutting it, particularly after I just got back from talking about the devastating effect that the prison industrial complex is having on urban centers...
by admin | Nov 15, 2006 | Neoliberalism |
I’ve been reading Mat Johnson’s blog Niggerati.com since Tayari hipped me to it. In a recent post he tests whether Black Lit is for White People by looking at the type of black literature given prominent awards by mainstream literature critics. I’d...
by admin | Nov 13, 2006 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
even in the worse ways. part of me–the democratic theorist and actor–understands that part of my mission is to expand the ability of folks to speak their “special” truth, even when that “special” is “special” as in...
by admin | Nov 10, 2006 | Announcements |
Ed Bradley died two days ago of leukemia. In writing about him, Wil Haygood used the quote I cite above. There’s a certain type of gaze that comes with living life as a black man. Unless you’re in a city like Detroit, there’s never a time you...
by admin | Nov 10, 2006 | Democracy, Politics, Racial Politics |
In no particular order: Blacks will support black Republican candidates under certain conditions Blacks gave Steele in Maryland 30% of their vote.  Three times more than the black average. The reason support for black republican candidates hasn’t been...
by admin | Nov 4, 2006 | Black People Mythology, Neoliberalism |
There’s a meme that’s been going around black communities at least as long as black people have been organizing against white supremacy, blaming black failure on self-hatred. If we were to just “unify.” If we were able to somehow figure out how...
by admin | Oct 27, 2006 | Announcements
Lawrence Levine was a giant in the field of African American History. His book Black Culture and Consciousness was written over twenty (almost THIRTY!) years ago, but is still one of the best in its field, and required reading. He passed away of cancer this...
by admin | Oct 20, 2006 | Afrofuturism |
You know what? I was reading about my Tigers (yeah, after 19 years I’m claiming them again) and got this instead. Looks like an invisibility cloak will soon be reality. First there will be military applications. Then police and surveillance applications....
by admin | Oct 11, 2006 | Democracy, Political Ideology, Politics
Over at Cobb, my boy Mike is arguing that Conservatism may be the saving grace of America and the West. I don’t expect to get a response from him because he’s got a job to do…but while conservatism very well may be the saving grace of the North (not...
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