by admin | Mar 6, 2008 | Crime and Punishment, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
From David Simon (creator of The Wire): “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,” wrote Thomas Paine when he called for civil disobedience against monarchy — the flawed national policy of his day. In a...
by admin | Dec 10, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Reading the story Killing for Respect which is the first about black people that I’ve ever seen Digged. Note that the lack of family is mentioned in several different ways, poverty is only mentioned once.
by admin | Oct 29, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Democracy, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
…and Baltimore is the Detroit of the East Coast, which is why I like it here so much. Knuckle Sandwich brought to light the recent history of homicides in Oakland, pointing to a San Francisco Chronicle series on the murders. What was most interesting to me was...
by admin | Oct 8, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Education, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics |
I do not know if this new justice movement has legs, but I wrote earlier that this is about justice for EVERYONE that simply STARTS with black children. Trickle up politics at its best. In writing about the Shaquanda Cotton case many of us blogged (and Howard Witt...
by admin | Oct 4, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Education, Racial Politics |
Kimberly Wilder is a member of the Green Party of New York, and is an education advocate AND activist. She wrote a piece on Jena from her standpoint as both a white progressive and an education advocate and gave me a heads up about it. A quote: One piece of logic...
by admin | Oct 1, 2007 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Democracy, Education, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
Yesterday while writing about Jena, and Paris, I noted the role of the black media (talk radio, journalists, black bloggers) in rendering rural racism transparent. (As an aside I’d like to check on whether there has been an attempt to differentiate between...
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