We hit the Illinois Pay-for-Play scandal hard on the Barbershop. For me it was the most ghetto version of the politics as business model that we’ve been infected with at least since the Reagan era. “Running the city like a business”, the idea of “hiring” a political official (as opposed to electing him/her), asking for loot for a political office? All on the same continuum to me.
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There is NO connection. The mere question is ridiculous to me.
PS – I just listened to your video post over at BlackProf about Obama ruining The Southern Strategy. I thought it was on the money.
thank you!
jackson got stiffed plain and simple. it's unfortunate really.
he was a longshot for the Seat in 2010 even if he had gotten the appointment.
a long decade of work has just been ruined for him, derailing his ambitions for another decade
“Jackson got stiffed plain and simple. It's unfortunate really.”
The problem is Jackson jr. is a moral and intellectual lightweight. I can't feel sorry for him.
“Once you have the language of the market bleed into politics, this is the natural and most extreme result.”
I think you are right. I am a little curious why you aren't harder on Roland Fryer for poisoning education with the same language.
I'm going to clarify my feelings. Fryer is an economist. He is going to do what he is going to do. The problem I see is when other people, especially black intellectuals, hold his morally dubious work up as a paragon of young black leadership.
I'm pretty hard on Fryer. I think it is possible to do this though without even dealing with the question of motives. Because there are all types of well-meaning folk who are also drunk from the neoliberal spiked koolaid.
The only scholar I know that holds Fryer's work up the way you suggest is Glen Loury. Are there others I am missing?