by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Neoliberalism |
Check out the essay here. Tell Ridley what you think here. For what it is worth I think the essay is poorly written and poorly structured. And lest someone think that black people have cornered the market on this type of ignorance, we haven’t. But what it...
by admin | Nov 26, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Black People Mythology, Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me
There’s an interesting discussion with two parts over at P6 about cooperative economics. The belief that black businesses will somehow lift black people from our place on the bottom rungs is driven by a mythical belief in the power of capitalism. If trickle-down...
by admin | Nov 15, 2006 | Neoliberalism |
I’ve been reading Mat Johnson’s blog Niggerati.com since Tayari hipped me to it. In a recent post he tests whether Black Lit is for White People by looking at the type of black literature given prominent awards by mainstream literature critics. I’d...
by admin | Nov 4, 2006 | Black People Mythology, Neoliberalism |
There’s a meme that’s been going around black communities at least as long as black people have been organizing against white supremacy, blaming black failure on self-hatred. If we were to just “unify.” If we were able to somehow figure out how...
by admin | Oct 7, 2006 | Neoliberalism |
Ok. So about ten days or so ago, my Ipod died on me. I had planned to begin podcasting my lectures for my black politics class, among other things. All for naught. I took it to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store, and the assistant charged it, listened to it…and...
by admin | Oct 6, 2006 | Black Power, Neoliberalism |
One of the reasons I haven’t been posting as often is because I’ve begun teaching. After two years off I was literally dying to get into the classroom…and for good reason. My two classes (Black Politics–primarily for undergrads, Comparative...
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