by admin | Feb 3, 2011 | Black Family, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
Photo by SoulfullAccording to the data, black men and women are marrying at a decreasing rate, and although part of this is clearly a function of the growing incarceration of black men, that story is insufficient, as we see the same phenomenon among whites. In a...
by admin | Jan 31, 2011 | Hip-hop, Neoliberalism
Photo by David MarklandAbout a month or so ago 50 Cent sent out a few tweets about a penny stock he owned shares of (30 million). After his tweets, its value rose 390% netting him a cool $8.7 million. Though the Huffington Post notes he may be in some legal trouble as...
by admin | Jan 26, 2011 | Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics |
Photo by stevegarfieldA number of people have chimed in by now about Obama’s State of the Union address. Yesterday I noted that Obama was colonized by corporate language…rather than him using the language of investments for his own ends, I thought...
by admin | Jan 25, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama
Photo by Steve RhodesIn advance of tonight’s State of the Union address, Michael Shear notes that Obama is strategically using the language of business in order to show he is business friendly but in such a way as to maintain constituency support. Shear:...
by admin | Jan 24, 2011 | Black Family, Education, Neoliberalism |
The phrase “tiger mom” returns approximately 36,200,000 hits on Google. As the parent of five black children Amy Chua’s tale all too easily resonates with me. I remember with crystal clarity the moment we took our oldest son out of daycare several...
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