by kspence | Jul 30, 2013 | Black Popular Culture, Gender and Politics
I want to visually follow up on a point I made yesterday. I think Ryan Coogler did an excellent job at representing Oscar Grant not as a type, but as a fully developed human, with a range of feelings, with a range of identities. I happened to be blessed to...
by kspence | Jul 29, 2013 | Black Family, Black Popular Culture, Gender and Politics |
I remember when BART cops murdered Oscar Grant in 2009, because it happened just a few weeks before Obama's inaugural. I'd known that Obama's election didn't eradicate racism or classism, but the stark juxtaposition struck me, as well as the facts of...
by kspence | Jul 23, 2013 | Black Politics, Crime and Punishment, Obama, Politics |
Today Salon ran two articles examining Detroit and Trayvon Martin. The article on Detroit, like most others ignore the role structural racism played Detroit's circumstances.[foot]Check out Krugman's response to Charles Lane for example, or...
by kspence | Jul 22, 2013 | Detroit, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Last week Detroit Emergency Financial Manager Kevin Orr filed bankruptcy papers, and was later sent back to the drawing board. When I heard the news, I felt as if I'd been simultaneously punched in the gut and then had a two hundred pound weight strapped on...
by kspence | Jul 14, 2013 | Neoliberalism |
Scattered thoughts. Those of us who are routinely asked to speak about or somehow on behalf of black people should stop moralizing to black populations. And get in the habit of affirming the right of black people to grieve and respond in whatever we see fit. AND...
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