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 | Mar 13, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBXD2zizIY[/youtube]
by admin | Jan 30, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama |
Unfortunate. Because even though he was behind in the polls, he brought a level of democracy to the democratic primaries that will not be there afterwards. And stories like this continue to give me pause about Obama.
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...
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