by admin | Jun 9, 2009 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Obama, Public Health, Public Policy, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
We all agree that our health care system is broken. We get too little care for what we pay, suffer more than we should even after we pay. When Grant Hill first signed with the Detroit Pistons several years ago now he was on "sky's the limit" trajectory....
by admin | Jun 8, 2009 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Obama, things that make you go hmm |
Even before Cosby gave his Brown vs. Board of Education speech blaming lower-income blacks for racial disparities in education, I’ve been interested in the power of black elites to shape and mold black public opinion. I threw up a little in my mouth when Obama...
by admin | Jun 7, 2009 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Obama, The Mass Media |
(Every status update/blog entry/tweet I write today will have the title of one of Prince’s songs in it in honor of his 51st birthday.) If you’ve got about ten minutes of free time check out Davey D’s interview of Michael Eric Dyson below:...
by admin | Jun 3, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama, Urban Politics |
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a piece on the Sotomayor nomination for The Nation. I’m convinced she’s going to go through with flying colors because she has the pedigree and the legal chops for the job. But the lack of sustained coverage...
by admin | Jun 2, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Fifty or so years ago what was good for GM was good for the nation. Yesterday GM officially went into bankruptcy. Shares of the stock are now worthless. The government is for all intents and purposes the virtual owner of GM. There are already signals they intend to...
by admin | May 4, 2009 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Marc Steiner Show, Obama |
I was on the Marc Steiner Show talking about Obama’s first 100 days. In part because of this piece Marc thought I’d be more sympathetic to Obama than I was. But just because I froze my butt off seeing Obama get inaugurated doesn’t mean I’m...
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