Ron Paul and race (part II)
Up at Blacklikemoi, I have some additional thoughts on Ron Paul and his newsletters. As always, here’s a taste: Over the past couple of weeks, two distinct memes about Ron Paul have grabbed hold; 1) Ron Paul is rac...
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Ron Paul and race (cont’d)
As candidate Ron Paul turns up the heat in Iowa, I see, rather predictably, that mainstream writers are turning up the heat on Ron Paul (see here, here, andhere). At issue now are the 20 plus year old newsletters, many o...
Ron Paul and race
I hear a lot of people ratcheting up the rhetoric on Ron Paul and race. For the most part, I get it. Ron Paul has said a lot of things that lend themselves to criticism. But he’s also said a lot of other things. L...
Niggerhead 101
I really don’t care what most people have to say about Rick Perry and his ilk (and by “most people”, I mean Perry’s apologists, and others who would affix some sort of pseudo- reasonable explanations for how Niggerhead g...
melissa harris-perry; soldier without a cause
On several occasions, I’ve documented Melissa Harris-Perry’s outrage at Smiley and West over their criticism of President Obama. Even though both Smiley and West have consistently argued that their issue with Obama is hi...
ta-nehisi coates asks the obvious (and already answered) question
In today’s blog entry, Ta-Nehisi Coates asks his readers to talk to him like he’s stupid. He asks, “Are the London riots about race?” I’m not picking on The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi...
what will white people think? how our fixation with white opinion has ...
For as long as there have been black people, there have been white people who don’t like black people. There have always been white people who’ve built their life atop the pain, frustration, and devout ignorance of black...