by kspence | Sep 28, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism
I got an email from one of my students today. An excellent student, she’s had trouble finding work and she reached out to me. I thought I’d take the response I sent to her and place it here (names removed of course), as a lot of people are in these...
by kspence | Sep 26, 2011 | Black Leadership, Neoliberalism, Obama |
I had the opportunity to read Obama’s Speech to the CBC. In contrast to critiques that he hasn’t sufficiently paid attention or given credit to the Civil Rights Movement, Obama’s speech is full of references to the Civil Rights Movement and to Martin...
by kspence | Sep 11, 2011 | Neoliberalism |
When Al Queda operatives destroyed the World Trade Center and hit the Pentagon, we missed an incredible moment. When President Bush was asked what Americans should do, he replied, “shop.” In thinking about whether to tell “my 9/11 story” I came...
by kspence | Jun 28, 2011 | Neoliberalism, Public Policy, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-ldcnhsLY[/youtube] Today? 911 is a joke. Today I’m dealing with the contemporary politics of black health, focusing on HIV/AIDS, and I thought it’d be a good look. It doesn’t deal at all with the ways black...
by admin | Jun 20, 2011 | Hip-hop, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media |
Today, I’m rocking Nas’ “I Can.” I analyzed this record pretty extensively in the book. Listen to the way he differentiates between black populations. Why do people succeed? Why do people fail? Although on the one hand it’s easy enough to...
by admin | May 20, 2011 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, Obama |
Photo by @mjbThis week Cornel West broke out in hives over his inability to get an invite to the inaugural, under cover of a progressive Obama critique arguing that Obama had a thing for whites and jews and against “free black men”. Both Melissa...
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