by admin | Jun 8, 2009 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Obama, things that make you go hmm |
Even before Cosby gave his Brown vs. Board of Education speech blaming lower-income blacks for racial disparities in education, I’ve been interested in the power of black elites to shape and mold black public opinion. I threw up a little in my mouth when Obama...
by admin | Apr 14, 2009 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
Zoltan Hajnal at the University of California, San Diego, has just published an article in the American Political Science Review that looks at the issue of political representation. Democracy at its best is supposed to distribute victories and losses fairly evenly...
by admin | Apr 6, 2009 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
The Urban League recently released a report on the state of black America. With unemployment at 22% in Black America alone, do you really need to know what that report said? For historian Jelani Cobb, this calls for a treatment of the old Booker T. Washington vs....
by admin | Feb 26, 2009 | Black Power, Education, Neoliberalism, Obama |
If you’re connected to me via facebook you know I was updating furiously during the Obama speech. And I agreed with much of it. What he’s doing is nothing less than revolutionary–at least within the context of the last 10 plus years of American...
by admin | Feb 19, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
With Obama’s election, there was hope that the black media corps would have a much tighter relationship with him. And to an extent they have so far–remember we’re barely a month into his Presidency. Feels a lot longer because Bush pretty much...
by admin | Jan 11, 2009 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Urban Politics |
Adrienne Brown is hot like fire. – We need ongoing supported focus on police brutality and accountability, even as we develop our own peace zones. It’s no longer sufficient to get furious when a civilian is killed by police, and maintain that fury until...
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