by admin | Oct 22, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Education, Obama |
My daughter’s American government teacher called Obama a socialist in her class today. Friday? I’m dropping the hammer. I haven’t talked about it much but this past September we made the decision to send all of our kids to school. It was a hard...
by admin | Oct 15, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Obama |
You want to see an old school hip-hop inflected MC beatdown over the election? Read this.
by admin | Oct 11, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gender and Politics, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics, Racial Politics |
Will electing Obama matter? If it were Clinton rather than Obama, will electing her have mattered for women? Of course the default answer is yes. For scholars like Walter Benn Michaels? No. In 1947—seven years before the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of...
by admin | Oct 8, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazmVHAO0os[/youtube] The clip above is taken from the first televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon. I watched last night’s debate as did most of you. I thought that I’d take a moment to respond to some of the...
by admin | Oct 1, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama |
Today’s Washington Post had what appears to be a no-brainer on the front page: “Blacks forming Rock-Solid Bloc Behind Obama”. Of course we are. We tend to vote democratic anyway, and the current GOP ticket leaves much to be desired for a liberal...
by admin | Sep 25, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Gender and Politics, Hip-hop, Obama, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
Byron Hurt has a new project examining black masculinity and the jump off point is a question about the connection between Barack Obama and Curtis Jackson (50 Cent). Trailer no. 2: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEOT4wAetzY[/youtube] I am going to come back...
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