by admin | Aug 4, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Obama, The Mass Media |
Well…not exactly. But close enough. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LxlmYfrLI[/youtube] Just like the “hecklers” had to raise hell to get the mic in the Obama townhall meeting, the only way that progressives and working class interests have...
by admin | Aug 1, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Obama |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pod1Kr-q6us[/youtube] Thanks to Errin Haines for this. Black progressives and leftists are in trouble. Because Obama appears to be the first modern politician with the ability to stifle dissent in a way that actually soothes...
by admin | Jul 16, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Obama
One of the questions I've had to respond to over and over again in regards to Obama is "why can't we both have a discussion about resopnsibility and talk about the government too?" Surely we can walk and chew gum at the same time? Read this article...
by admin | Jul 12, 2008 | Black Family, Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Amiri Baraka wrote a long letter to members of the black left before the June Black Radical Congress Meeting. You can find the entire speech here but I first found out about it over at P6. I can boil down the speech without doing too much damage to the following...
by admin | Jun 6, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, NPR, Obama, The Mass Media |
…because it’s just one of the many topics we talked about this week.
by admin | May 23, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
Over the last couple of days I’ve been in Washington D.C. at a conference for health disparities. One of the speakers we listened to was Aranthan Jones, former health policy advisor to Rep. Christensen and current House Majority Whip James Clyburn’s...
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