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Book Review by Dan Tres Omi
In the last several years, there have been quite a few healthy tomes written about hip hop culture. Unfortunately, a large portion of that bunch tends to place hip hop culture outside of Black culture. Much of what is written about hip hop culture seems [...]
After the Trailblazers
They represent a ’sea change’ in black politics: leaders who appeal to all races by stressing consensus over conflict.
A friend linked me this piece about the new generation of black politicians. It doesn’t offer anything new or insightful. But you may want to check it out for yourself: newsweek
From Media Matters
In recent months, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has been the target of attacks, smears, and innuendo throughout the media. He has been called a Muslim who attended a madrassa and has heard his Christian church in Chicago accused of having a “separatist” doctrine that “contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity”; he has been [...]
At a speaking engagement last fall Newark Mayor Cory Booker was asked if, after eliminating 1,200 city-related jobs and raising city taxes by 8% in his first 90 days in office, he wasn’t stealing a page from Machiaveli’s The Prince. In response Booker is said to have smiled and replied that he would ‘rather be loved than [...]
Check the Washington Post this morning? Interesting article about the back and forth between Clinton and Obama.
One quote I pulled out:
”Geoffrey D. Garin, a leading Democratic pollster not aligned with a presidential campaign, said that the shadowboxing at this stage is primarily tactical rather than strategic and that Obama and Clinton are very different candidates [...]
Calculate carefully. And in ponder it well, and remember this when you do— my two hands are mine to sell; they made your machines and they can stop them.
Paul Robeson
This month’s Ebony magazine is actually worth picking up. Alongside the routine incendiary pap that supposedly sells magazines– “Are there Really No Good Men or Are [...]
