by admin | May 4, 2007 | Democracy |
“Poverty” “Inequality” Actually, this isn’t quite true. “Poverty” appears twice–once in reference to the Congo, and another time in reference to children without fathers in the home. Inequality doesn’t appear at all. I don’t plan to support Clinton, so I don’t even...
by admin | May 3, 2007 | Democracy |
See today’s Washington Post article. There’s a whole bunch of stuff we talk about routinely in barbershops. But for some reason the only thing that comes out as “courageous” and “authentic” is the stuff that points to black people as the root of our problems. Now...
by admin | Apr 24, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Black Power |
General Baker is an old school labor activist in Detroit. Check this video out…it runs a little long but it is worth it. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/JUfop2Pl9pc” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent”...
by admin | Apr 19, 2007 | Black People Mythology, Hip-hop, Political Ideology |
One of my younger fraternity brothers, in the wake of the Imus scandal, made the following Whitlockian move: In realtity, what ever parts of our culture become mainstream will affect their preceptions of us and their interactions. How we treat each other sets...
by admin | Apr 10, 2007 | Politics, The Mass Media |
For my third to last class I’m looking at the media and political campaigns. So among the topics discussed will be the Willie Horton ad and the recent ad run against Harold Ford. Horton: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/EC9j6Wfdq3o” width=”425″...
by admin | Apr 4, 2007 | Black Leadership, Politics |
I just found about the results of some qualitative interviews done with black bloggers by Antoinette Pole from posts by Cobb and Prometheus 6. The results of her interviews suggest that black bloggers are likely to blog about racial issues and likely to use their...
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