Election Day 2010
In anticipation of the significant midterm election loses expected to be suffered by Democrats, I found these comments by David Brooks, a columnist with The New York Times, right on point: Democrats...
View Article“Kanye should never have apologized to Bush” by Dr. Boyce Watkins
Article in Race-Talk by Dr. Boyce Watkins One of the proudest moments in my life as a political observer was when Kanye West did something that almost no other artist or entertainer would be astute...
View Article“Kanye West Apologizes for Calling Bush a Racist, Highlighting Bigger Issue”...
Op-ed submission by Project 21 It may be too little and too late, but Kanye West is finally apologizing for calling George W. Bush a racist. Nonetheless, his realization could be a lesson for us all....
View Article9/11: Ten Years After
“Today I do not honor terrorism, reinforce fear or plot revenge. No. I pause today to commit to less violence and more peace. I choose today to be a part of the healing instead of part of the...
View ArticleLincoln: Reliving and Relieving the White Man’s Burden
I am looking forward to see Lincoln, the recent film by Steven Spielberg. I want to see it for purely selfish reasons: I am a huge Daniel Day Lewis fan. He plays Uncle Abe and from what I see from the...
View ArticleMLK Day, Obama’s 2nd Inauguration and Nigger Day Revisited
On Monday I noticed an unusual sharp spike in traffic to the blog. When I reviewed the “Site Stats” it revealed that the post with the most views on that day was “Nigger Day”, a post I had done in...
View ArticleRebel Flag and Old Glory: Symbols of Oppression
One of the controversies being bandied about by the African-American community with regards to Brad Paisley song: “Accidental Racist”, is that for him the Confederate Flag is a symbol of his “Southern...
View Article“Anarchy and Hegemony” by Robert D. Kaplan
Article from STRATFOR Everyone loves equality: equality of races, of ethnic groups, of sexual orientations, and so on. The problem is, however, that in geopolitics equality usually does not work very...
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