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 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,...
by admin | Jan 15, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Gender and Politics, Obama, Racial Politics |
In a previous post i linked to steinem’s (idiotic) piece on gender and race. Here she engages in a discussion with Melissa Harris-Lacewell about the issues on Democracy Now. Although you can read the transcript, knowing Dr. Harris-Lacewell I’d strongly...
by admin | Jan 15, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Gender and Politics, NPR, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
The recent flap over the apparent use of the southern strategy by the Clinton campaign led me to write a longer piece about the subject that appeared in Salon yesterday.Also, in the barbershop we talked about Gloria Steinem’s recent piece on the race/gender...
by admin | Jan 11, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy |
I’m snatching the following quote from Adolph Reed’s important work Stirrings in the Jug: Encouraging popular participation is the only effective possibility for reinvigorating a progressive movement in black political life because people respond by...
by admin | Dec 29, 2007 | Black Leadership, Racial Politics
In hindsight I’m pretty sure that P6 wrote a bit about this story. One bit caught me off guard–one of those interviewed moved from Detroit to Maine looking for “peace and tranquility” and it was this sister who argued that folks in Maine...
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