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A New Entitlement for the 21st Century (Crossposted at Blackprof)

by admin | Oct 31, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Education, Obama, Politics, The Mass Media | 5 comments

I’m doing some work for blackprof this month. And going straight to video, in order to begin a new type of conversation as I note below: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo_vK5vfvXc[/youtube]

Yep. Obama's Definitely a Socialist

by admin | Oct 28, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Culture, Obama, The Mass Media

Riots if Obama is not elected?

by admin | Oct 24, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics | 2 comments

Police have prepared for riots in cities with large black populations if Obama is not elected. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard, directly and indirectly.  I don’t buy this. Poking around the best I could find was this article from the United...

The GOP End Game–Go Out BLAZING

by admin | Oct 22, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Obama | 3 comments

Cobb offers a cute strategy with a little under two weeks left. But what if he’s got the frame all wrong? GOP elites have to be familiar with the same numbers I am. They show clearly that Obama has a close to $40 million more than McCain (taking the GOP and DNC...

Obama's a Socialist…according to my daughter's teacher

by admin | Oct 22, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Education, Obama | 16 comments

My daughter’s American government teacher called Obama a socialist in her class today. Friday? I’m dropping the hammer. I haven’t talked about it much but this past September we made the decision to send all of our kids to school. It was a hard...
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