by admin | Aug 23, 2006 | NPR, Pop Culture, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
Oliver Stone’s recent movie on the World Trade Center has come under criticism because of casting issues. You can hear my spin on it. A number of us have fallen victim to the fakelore of white supremacy. This is one case where it is pretty clear to me that black...
by admin | Aug 16, 2006 | NPR, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
I briefly blogged at oldschoolrepublicans.net until I told my homeboy that although he was a Republican (and made the strongest argument I’d heard in favor of blacks joining the GOP) I didn’t roll like that. In my most recent NPR piece I talk about some of...
by admin | Jul 31, 2006 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
In today’s New York Times, they acknowledge one of the hidden realities of the current economy–the growing number of men who have dropped out of the economy totally. But because the population is largely white, there isn’t even a hint of the venom...
by admin | Jul 26, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
In response to my post on the Voting Rights Act one of my boys asked me (rhetorically) why black people don’t vote…or at the very least why we have to have voting drives to get people to even think about voting. The following abstract might help. I had a...
by admin | Jul 21, 2006 | Campaigns and Elections, Racial Politics |
Spencer Overton recent wrote what looks to be a powerful book on voter suppression. Folks can talk all they want about how the Democrats must “reach out” to white evangelicals, about how they must come up with a message that speaks to “red state...
by admin | Apr 30, 2006 | Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm
In short, yes. Nick Winter recently published a paper in The American Journal of Political Science arguing that social security was in effect racialized in the exact opposite way as Affirmative Action had been racialized: In this article I argue that the framing of...
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