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The intersection of race, culture, and politics
Warning: a Scott Walker victory in the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election may finally inspire the rest of the Democratic Party to start acting like they really want to keep Barack Obama in the White House. It has been amazing to me to see how little outrage there has been at poll numbers that ...
Yesterday, as we finished recapping our respective workdays over a glass of wine, S. asked me if I’d seen the story on the web about the Melungeon people who had taken a DNA test to trace their forebears. “I have no idea who told these people that they were part Portuguese. Years ago,” I continued ...
The first thing that came to mind when I finished Predator Nation , the book by Charles Ferguson that explains how Wall Street’s elite brazenly commit financial crimes out in the open, is that nothing he wrote about is a secret. The Know Nothing movement has succeeded in getting the American public ...
The latest incarnation of the CEO as a unique corporate asset is the saga unfolding at JP Morgan Chase, where Jamie Dimon is supposedly under the gun for being at the helm while his traders lost 3 billion or more dollars with the kind of high risk derivative trading strategy that tanked the economy ...
The Obama administration has a pronounced tendency to give off mixed signals on controversial issues for an interminably long time before deciding on a particular policy to implement or a position to champion. This may anger the political enemies of the White House, but it infuriates Obama ...
I was getting ready to tape a show yesterday with Sean Yoes, host of WEAA’s Afro First Edition political show, when I first heard about the “Life of Julia” ad the Obama campaign released. Sean was incensed at the Obama strategy people for putting together such a horrible ad. I finally had a chance ...
I’ve spent the last two weeks getting licensed to work in a new field. Mitt Romney has spent the last two weeks since Rick Santorum dropped out of the race trying to convince the American public that he should replace Barack Obama as president of the United States in November. It has not been ...
Three things stood out to me yesterday amid all the Trayvon Martin related hoopla surrounding the arrest of George Zimmerman on a charge of murder in the second degree. I don’t know who in the Florida governor’s office made the recommendation to go with Angela Corey as the special prosecutor in ...
The surreal coverage of the Trayvon Martin killing these last 24 hours seems like an episode of Law and Order . We are now at the point in the show when Briscoe and Curtis, my favorite detective pairing of the series, is about to arrest the perpetrator, who in our real life story is being played by ...
I received an advance reading copy of The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery and Endurance in Early America by Scott Weidensaul recently, even though the book was released at the beginning of February. Unlike most of the people who write history books, Weidensaul is not an ...
My household has split opinions on the new Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC. I think it is amazing that a national news show has a black woman with braided hair as the anchor of a national political talk show. Then again, maybe I like the show so much because Dr. Perry resembles another doctor ...
A tsunami of words has been unleashed this week in response to the violent death of Trayvon Martin. Grown men with tears in their eyes have choked up as they look into TV cameras to talk about this tragedy. A Florida congresswoman with anger in her voice has entered the declaration of her ...
Trayvon Martin, from the evidence we can see so far, was not guilty of anything more than being an aimless child on his way home. His death at the hands of George Zimmerman, neighborhood watch captain for a Stanford Florida subdivision was tragic, but the resulting investigation of the shooting by ...
The same unerring perversities of good old fashioned arithmetic that plagued the 2008 Democratic presidential primary have now afflicted the 2012 Republican presidential primary race. Mitt Romney was actually able to increase his delegate lead from 225 to 261 this week without winning either ...
They should just rename Fox News the “Black Presidents Scare The Shit Out Of Us” network. If nothing else, Sean Hannity is consistent—he inundates the airwaves every day with “Obama is a Communist/Marxist/Socialist/SecretMuslim" practically every time he is on the air. The video Hannity “premiered ...