by admin | Feb 24, 2007 | Black Leadership |
Minister Farrakhan is giving the Nation of Islam’s annual Savior’s Day Speech in Detroit on Sunday, and I’ve been asked to participate in a roundtable for this event, which may be his last, due to his failing health. My feelings about Minister...
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...
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...
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...
by admin | Jan 20, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Mat Johnson’s cooking with gas. I don’t know how I got put down with Niggerati Manor. Probably Tayari. Yes. Tayari. I see a great deal of promise in the explosion of Urban Fiction. But for writers like Mat and Tayari, this promise is fraught with…I...
by admin | Jan 18, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Black Power, Democracy |
Obama plans on running. One of my colleagues sends me an article. Turns out he doesn’t exactly move “civil rights leaders”. Now I put the term in quote because while the article talks about civil rights leaders in the aggregate it only quotes a few....
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