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 27, 2008 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Public Policy, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
In blogging about the CNN Black Family series I mentioned that Fryer had a couple of theories that have been debunked…or tried to at any rate. The “Acting White” argument I dealt with some time ago. But the salty negro theory–which posits that...
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 | Jun 17, 2008 | Crime and Punishment, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Hmph.
by admin | Jun 17, 2008 | Black Family, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, things that make you go hmm |
Many have written about the stark racial differences in wealth and in income. But what about the differences within black communities? Working on the book I found a couple of charts that I think are interesting here. The gini coefficient measures income inequality...
by admin | Jun 7, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Education, Urban Politics |
“Why couldn’t we be a site for an alternative energy school? Why wouldn’t we be a training school to support the rail industry? Why wouldn’t we have a design school to look at mass transportation? Why couldn’t we train students in...
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