by admin | Feb 1, 2007 | Democracy |
When damn near everyone was capitulating. When the media outlets gave Bush pass after pass after pass I only remember a few people who were willing to say that the emperor President had no clothes. One of them passed away today. To say she will be missed is a brutal...
by admin | Jan 25, 2007 | Democracy |
This time with an article from the Washington Post entitled Obama’s Appeal to Blacks an Open Question. On the one hand the article gives blacks credit for being relatively sophisticated enough not to simply support Obama because he is black. And there are very...
by admin | Jan 24, 2007 | Democracy, Racial Politics |
The other day I wrote about how some folks don’t believe that Obama is black. Now I’ve already noted Dickerson’s hypocrisy, but I should hasten to say that she isn’t alone. Stanley Crouch is on the same page, though to be fair he makes a subtly...
by admin | Jan 22, 2007 | Democracy |
I knew it wouldn’t be long before someone wrote a piece like questioned Obama’s blackness. What surprises me mildly is that the person is Debra Dickerson. Here’s a small snippet from a review of Dickerson’s first book entitled (oddly enough)...
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....
by admin | Nov 10, 2006 | Democracy, Politics, Racial Politics |
In no particular order: Blacks will support black Republican candidates under certain conditions Blacks gave Steele in Maryland 30% of their vote.  Three times more than the black average. The reason support for black republican candidates hasn’t been...
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