by admin | Nov 13, 2006 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
even in the worse ways. part of me–the democratic theorist and actor–understands that part of my mission is to expand the ability of folks to speak their “special” truth, even when that “special” is “special” as in...
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...
by admin | Nov 4, 2006 | Black People Mythology, Neoliberalism |
There’s a meme that’s been going around black communities at least as long as black people have been organizing against white supremacy, blaming black failure on self-hatred. If we were to just “unify.” If we were able to somehow figure out how...
by admin | Oct 11, 2006 | Democracy, Political Ideology, Politics
Over at Cobb, my boy Mike is arguing that Conservatism may be the saving grace of America and the West. I don’t expect to get a response from him because he’s got a job to do…but while conservatism very well may be the saving grace of the North (not...
by admin | Oct 6, 2006 | Black Power, Neoliberalism |
One of the reasons I haven’t been posting as often is because I’ve begun teaching. After two years off I was literally dying to get into the classroom…and for good reason. My two classes (Black Politics–primarily for undergrads, Comparative...
by admin | Oct 3, 2006 | Democracy, Political Ideology, Politics |
I was going to call this post “the best argument for conservatism I can think of” but the thing is that conservatism really isn’t about small government, it’s about small government for interests conservatives don’t support. Hence the...
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