by admin | Nov 19, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Racial Politics |
I’ve gotten two good, and one poor response to my most recent video post. What I’m going to try to do is respond to them. I’ll get the poor response out of the way. My good friend Michael Bowen posted a video response. Rather than spend much time on...
by admin | Nov 11, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngKVNYzHS7Y[/youtube] Cross posted at Blackprof. Does your subconscious tell you that Obama is foreign? Proposition 8 Exit Poll
by admin | Oct 24, 2008 | Crime and Punishment, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IszjevYoS6A[/youtube] Many of us thought this story sounded funny when it was first reported. And Prof. Lacewell is right to note that things have changed a great deal since the Susan Smith hoax (and incidentally the Carol...
by admin | Oct 24, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
Police have prepared for riots in cities with large black populations if Obama is not elected. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard, directly and indirectly. I don’t buy this. Poking around the best I could find was this article from the United...
by admin | Oct 11, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gender and Politics, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics, Racial Politics |
Will electing Obama matter? If it were Clinton rather than Obama, will electing her have mattered for women? Of course the default answer is yes. For scholars like Walter Benn Michaels? No. In 1947—seven years before the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of...
by admin | Oct 8, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazmVHAO0os[/youtube] The clip above is taken from the first televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon. I watched last night’s debate as did most of you. I thought that I’d take a moment to respond to some of the...
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