I missed this fascinating article by David Sirota when it came out a couple of weeks ago, explaining why and how race matters in Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign against Barrack Obama.
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Since at least the South Carolina primary, the Clinton campaign’s message has been stripped of its poll-tested nuance and become a rather […]
By Marsha Joyner
Did Martin die in vain on that fateful day of April 4, 1968? What has transpired in these 40 years with respect to King’s dream? There are several events in the Bible where the number 40 is of paramount importance—can any of them be related to our struggles these past 40 years? Rain […]
Great clip from yesterday’s State of the Black Union footage in NOLA (via Baratunde):
If you know some of my other work, you’ll know why I love Gregory’s quote from way back:
“If these Mississippi white Klansmen, who do not know how to plan crimes, who are ignorant, illiterate bastards, can completely baffle our FBI, what are […]
If you are like me, and you struggle to find full throated enthusiasm for any of the Democratic candidates, I want to encourage you vote and to vote for Barack Obama.
In my most cynical moments I fear that there is little difference between Obama and Clinton and that neither will be a progressive President.
I’ve been […]
I mean Barack Obama …
h/t to Brandon.
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Dollars & Sense co-editor Amy Gluckman appeared on Your Call, a show on radio station KALW. Appearing with Amy was Lawrence Pintak of Arab Media and Society and Glenn Ford from Black Agenda Report. Amy discussed what is being left out of economic news coverage and was great (as were Pintak, discussing the fall of […]
Max Blumenthal has been reporting on Rudy’s White Power problem: Giuliani has chosen Arthur Ravnel, Jr.—a hardcore, ideological neo-Confederate—to be the regional chair of his presidential campaign in South Carolina. Ed Sebesta, an authority on the neo-Confederate movement, has more on Ravnel here.
“By appointing Ravenel to his campaign,” Blumenthal writes, “Giuliani has recognized the influence […]
You know, the Arizona-based consulting firm that conducted voter registration drives around the US in 2004 and was accused in some places of destroying Democratic registrations and in others of changing them to Republican registrations, without the voters’ consent.
Well, back in July Mark Crispin Miller and Jared Irmas published a story, little discussed in the […]
Jonathan left this in the comments. I think it should be read by all.
I guess my only problem with Sherman’s CounterPunch article (a great publication by the way) is the identification of the peace movement as “predominately white” and the manner in which the author’s very writing narrows the pitch of his message to apparently […]
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One reason I like Heather Baum’s Born Again Jim Crow essay is that she makes a clear connection between old Jim Crow practices and right wing corporate control of the voting technology industry. This connection is important for understanding the present and it is important for understanding the past.
The irrational race hatred that was (and […]
[I originally published this piece by Heather Baum on No Stolen Democracy in January. I republish it here for the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and because it is still deeply relevant. Heather wrote “Born Again Jim Crow” last fall, when we were between the two 40th anniversary dates, mentioned, below. –BG]
by Heather […]
Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
2008 Benjamin T. Greenberg
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