Shelby Steele offered some interesting thoughts on the subject of “white guilt” observing that in post-white supremacist America it can be very damaging to a person or institution’s reputation to be labeled as a racist. Consequently, people and institutions put a lot of emphasis on avoiding having that happen. This, according to Steele, often crowds [...]
Just wanted to echo the inability of the daily press to do nuance…take the Metro section of the Washington Post for example. Their reporters take a real paint-by-numbers approach to stuff like crime or gentrification. I remember about a year ago they did a piece on my neighborhood (H Street) where the reporter dragged out [...]
What if black absentee fathers are embarrassed and that’s why many aren’t at home? Gender roles for men haven’t had a revolutionary redefining period like women have, especially in the socially conservative black community. So, to be a man is to provide for your children, by earning. That’s what a man does. So, if you [...]
Bill Clinton continues to display his depthless self-pity and sense of entitlement. When Bill messed around with an intern and lied about it, it was all a vast right-wing conspiracy. Now African Americans take issue with Bill’s repeated, racially tinged comments and it’s Obama’s fault. Will this guy ever accept responsibility for anything he does [...]
I’m steady trying to figure out what Krugman’s problem with Obama is. In any case, I did read the whole piece and I think Krugman is over-reaching a lot (and just plain wrong) when he says that pc-ness has driven “overt and strongly implied racism from out of our national discourse.” We’re still not anywhere [...]
As a white 20-something, we so, so got it. At least, myself and my 20-something friends did. We all we’re typing “FIST BUMP OMG” in our chat windows immediately. Followed by “dude, I want a relationship where we fist bump when I win the presidential nomination”. Also, Brian Jenning’s comment (“..was to be a small, [...]
The article in The Atlantic, linked above, features the work of Richard Sander, who has been arguing for a while now that AA in law schools hurts black people. Most people who study this, though, have come to the opposite conclusion; the bulk of the research shows that folks admitted into elite law schools via [...]
In some ways, Obama’s courtship of African American voters is reminiscent of the way white liberal Democrats have tried to gain black support. Kennedy’s 1960 campaign, for example, was adept at reaching out to the African American electorate through channels unseen by average white voters. At the same time, Kennedy routinely went out of his [...]
Im sorry, but whether you like ralph nader or not, he is generally correct that Obama is your traditional democrat on most issue–especially those economic. Be honest, is an advisory team of cutler, liebman, goolsbee, and furman the group that will–or even wants to–destroy entrenched urban poverty. I too have worked in Chicago’s ghettos, and [...]
Again some poll claims to know what Black people think. Miss Hillary was told by Rangel and the New York Congressional group that put her in the Senate there to stand down or twist in the wind by her own damn self. Barack put the smackdown on her. It’s his Party now. What role she [...]
