Nation: July 4
Never one to let priceless old bytes bite the dust without a bitter struggle, I have just been handed a rare opportunity to recycle some old but, I think, still timely comments of mine. Well, “handed” is perhaps a bit too strong. Let’s say I’m seizing the opportunity provided by a very interesting and well […]
Return of the Hicks –
Return of the Hicks – The Washington Post reports today on page one that “CBS Plans a Real-Life Version of Its 60s Hick Hit,” the Beverly Hillbillies. That was the subtitle; the bold title is “Gold in Them Thar ‘Hillbillies.’” On the continuation page inside, the big bold headline that stretches five (out of six) […]
Finally! – Very encouraging article
Finally! – Very encouraging article in today’s Washington Post about a new generation of leaders who are black who resist being regarded as “black leaders,” despite the fact that “many black civil rights advocates warn” that abandoning their traditional role as race men/women “could bring the word ‘sellout’ to some black people’s minds.” No time […]
A is A – Jessie
A is A – Jessie assures me that most of our readers (all six of you) are much better educated than me (see what I mean?), and so you will recognize the title of this post as deriving from Aristotle’s version of formal logic. It means, she tells me, something on the order of “a […]
Black Representatives=Representation of Blacks? –
Black Representatives=Representation of Blacks? – Here’s an odd thing: the lead OpEd in Tuesday’s Washington Post (in the sense of being at the top of the page) was not in the online edition all day. It just appeared there (11:45PM Tuesday night). I’d like to think it’s because of the email I sent asking why […]
Cornel West and Black Interests
Cornel West and Black Interests – There he goes again. The peripatetic Princetonian, last seen leaving Harvard in a huff, appeared in New York Sunday by the side of candidate Andrew Cuomo to announce that Carl McCall was, according to the account in the New York Times, “‘timid and hesitant’ on issues important to blacks.” […]
Reparations vs. Equality?
In his column in the Washington Post today, “Why Wait for Reparations,” the always interesting William Raspberry inadvertently, I think, reveals some tensions in the way we think about equality. He writes: There was a time not long ago when we believed that all we needed for equality was a fair shot. Don’t deny us […]
Unintended But Predicted Events –
Unintended But Predicted Events – Surprise! “New Ways To Harness Soft Money in Works: Political Groups Poised to Take Huge Donations,” the Washington Post reported on the Sunday front page. Some of the biggest names in Republican and Democratic circles are establishing new groups to collect and spend the unlimited political donations that are supposed […]
Comments Anyone? – What’s with
Comments Anyone? – What’s with the comment engines and Blogger? No sooner had we, earlier today, abandoned enation (and our accumulated comments) because it abandoned us, going dormant on all the blogs that used it, and switched to Netcomment than the latter took leave, reporting all day now that “Commenting Temporarily Unavailable.” YACCS, another popular […]
Quality of Life/Right Direction, or
Quality of Life/Right Direction, or Merely Who’s In The Driver’s Seat? – The Sunday Washington Post ran a front page article under the headline, “Pr. George’s Perspectives Split Along Color Lines: Blacks More Satisfied With County, Poll Finds.” Prince George’s County, Maryland, a Washington suburb, is “one of the few majority-black suburban counties in the […]
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