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...
by admin | Apr 14, 2009 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
Zoltan Hajnal at the University of California, San Diego, has just published an article in the American Political Science Review that looks at the issue of political representation. Democracy at its best is supposed to distribute victories and losses fairly evenly...
by admin | Apr 6, 2009 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
The Urban League recently released a report on the state of black America. With unemployment at 22% in Black America alone, do you really need to know what that report said? For historian Jelani Cobb, this calls for a treatment of the old Booker T. Washington vs....
by admin | Mar 30, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
David Sirota asks this question. If Wagoner from GM gets the axe from Obama why not the bankers? Simple answer really. Marx had it all wrong when he put “capital” in one bag. The truth is that “capital” should really be thought of as...
by admin | Mar 19, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Culture, Democracy, The Mass Media |
Living Art, originally uploaded by Unbowed. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer bit the dust today to be reborn as an online only edition. The San Francisco Chronicle is losing $1 million/week and if it dies I believe that Sanfran will be the only major city without a...
by admin | Mar 17, 2009 | Crime and Punishment, Democracy, Urban Politics |
Day 60, originally uploaded by Unbowed. I’m not sure how to take the news that the Baltimore Police Department will no longer inform the public about officers who kill/wound citizens in the process of carrying out their duties. Yes, you heard that right. The...
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