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Why do Black People go Bankrupt (for Spedy)

by admin | Jan 24, 2007 | Black People Mythology, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Politics, Racial Politics | 5 comments

In a conversation relating to one of my previous posts, my man Spedy mentioned the bankruptcy bill.  Shouldn’t people learn to pay for their mistakes?  If people can’t learn to be efficient with their money instead of spending it on XBox 360s and the...

The Crisis of the Negro Entrepreneur

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...

Ford Offers Buyout Plan to All Plant Workers

by admin | Aug 21, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics | 6 comments

Story here. The details haven’t come out yet. I’m suspecting it’s going to be tied to seniority. But let’s say for the sake of discussion that each worker is going to get offered something like 60 grand to walk. My dad just retired from Ford....

Keeping Paris Hilton out of government office

by admin | Aug 6, 2006 | Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, things that make you go hmm | 1 comment

The most recent edition of the American Political Science Review contained an article written by John P. McCormick (Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago) that presented three legitimate practices governments used in order to prevent the wealthy from...

Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness (Why Black Folk Don’t Vote)

by admin | Jul 26, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm | 5 comments

In response to my post on the Voting Rights Act one of my boys asked me (rhetorically) why black people don’t vote…or at the very least why we have to have voting drives to get people to even think about voting. The following abstract might help. I had a...

Americans spend double the money; Are still sicker

by admin | Jul 11, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Public Health, Public Policy, things that make you go hmm

A journal article published in the JAMA found that even though Americans spend double the resources on health care, they are still sicker than their British counterparts. Even after you take race and class into account. White executives in America are sicker than...
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