by admin | Oct 11, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gender and Politics, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics, Racial Politics |
Will electing Obama matter? If it were Clinton rather than Obama, will electing her have mattered for women? Of course the default answer is yes. For scholars like Walter Benn Michaels? No. In 1947—seven years before the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of...
by admin | Sep 21, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
First things first. After a few years of slogging I am ten days away from sending my book STARE IN THE DARKNESS: RAP, HIP-HOP, AND BLACK POLITICS to publishers. This is why I have blogged infrequently…. I’m on a black email list with a couple of...
by admin | Aug 4, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Obama, The Mass Media |
Well…not exactly. But close enough. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LxlmYfrLI[/youtube] Just like the “hecklers” had to raise hell to get the mic in the Obama townhall meeting, the only way that progressives and working class interests have...
by admin | Aug 1, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Obama |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pod1Kr-q6us[/youtube] Thanks to Errin Haines for this. Black progressives and leftists are in trouble. Because Obama appears to be the first modern politician with the ability to stifle dissent in a way that actually soothes...
by admin | Jul 27, 2008 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Public Policy, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
In blogging about the CNN Black Family series I mentioned that Fryer had a couple of theories that have been debunked…or tried to at any rate. The “Acting White” argument I dealt with some time ago. But the salty negro theory–which posits that...
Recent Comments