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...
by admin | Aug 1, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Obama |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pod1Kr-q6us[/youtube] Thanks to Errin Haines for this. Black progressives and leftists are in trouble. Because Obama appears to be the first modern politician with the ability to stifle dissent in a way that actually soothes...
by admin | Jul 16, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Obama
One of the questions I've had to respond to over and over again in regards to Obama is "why can't we both have a discussion about resopnsibility and talk about the government too?" Surely we can walk and chew gum at the same time? Read this article...
by admin | Jul 12, 2008 | Black Family, Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Amiri Baraka wrote a long letter to members of the black left before the June Black Radical Congress Meeting. You can find the entire speech here but I first found out about it over at P6. I can boil down the speech without doing too much damage to the following...
by admin | May 25, 2008 | Black Family, Black Leadership |
I’ve been thinking about King because I’m writing an academic paper about media representations of him…and have been thinking about Malcolm X because his birthday coincides with that of my middle son. Next week I will be as old as Martin Luther King...
by admin | May 18, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power |
Well, that’s not exactly true. But when the NAACP decided to appoint (why do I want to say “hire”?) 35-year old Benjamin Todd Jealous as its President (story here) they made the narrative here pretty predictable. Whereas when Bruce Gordon...
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