by admin | Apr 30, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Obama, Politics, Racial Politics |
I think partly because of the sort of racial narratives that are likely to attach within rightwing circles in the Democratic Party of an Obama defeat, as well as the subsequent role that he’d be likely to play in public life, that from the standpoint of progressive...
by admin | Apr 17, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama |
Yesterday’s debate between Sens. Obama and Clinton was important because it was the last debate before the critical Pennsylvania primary. But watching it I was not only disappointed in the questions asked by Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulus, I was...
by admin | Apr 11, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
I attended the Midwest Political Science Association conference in Chicago this last week. And got into a few interesting discussions about Obama that I’m pretty sure will translate into a research project. We know that implicitly racist ads move white voters...
by admin | Mar 21, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Culture, Democracy, NPR, Obama, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
After a bit of a hiatus I was back on the barbershop doing the thing. Among the topics of discussion were Obama’s speech, Kilpatrick’s chances in Detroit, and the LeBron James Vogue cover with Gisele.
by admin | Mar 20, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, The Mass Media |
One of my colleagues (Adolph Reed) called Obama’s speech The Philadelphia Compromise, tying it to Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise. One of my friends argued that he gave a “placating speech.” I’d like to see Reed’s...
by admin | Mar 17, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
Everything has fallen apart — all his dreams, all his plans. He doesn’t have a job, and he’s three months behind on his bills, and he’s afraid of losing his house, and he can’t find any work, and he doesn’t feel like a man anymore,...
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