Forum: Diavlog comments
05-12-2008, 03:22 PM
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Replies: 105
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Re: Obama the politician
I don't think that politics needs to be an art of compromise. What compromise can there really be on the question of equality? To use your "half a loaf" metaphor, Dr. King once argued that the...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-12-2008, 02:25 PM
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Replies: 105
Views: 34,819
Re: Barack vs. Jeremiah
Swingstatements, may I gently suggest that Reverend Wright is using "black" here as a designation for a certain kind of politics?
The philosophical critique of essentialism (and I hate that I even...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-25-2008, 05:56 PM
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Replies: 105
Views: 87,149
Re: If Obama Wasn't Black Before, He Sure Is Now
I wonder, do you think the event was polarizing -- or do you think it revealed a division that was already there? I personally don't think many people interpreted this event through new lenses. Note...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-25-2008, 05:52 PM
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Replies: 105
Views: 87,149
Re: If Obama Wasn't Black Before, He Sure Is Now
This is not true of everyone, but my clearest and most pointed remarks come when I get a little "fired up." In my opinion, the deal is that whites want to keep benefitting from something we never...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-25-2008, 05:41 PM
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Replies: 105
Views: 87,149
Re: White equivalent to Rev. Wright.
You are one of the few people who has drawn the connection between Wright and Falwell. While I don't agree with your judgment of Wright, I admire that you paint all of them with the same brush --...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-25-2008, 05:32 PM
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Replies: 105
Views: 87,149
Re: If Obama wasn't Black Before, He Sure Is Now
I hear you oluoni, but I think it should also be noted that there have never been only two racial designations in this country. So the point of expanding the conversation beyond black and white...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-25-2008, 01:04 PM
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Replies: 105
Views: 87,149
Re: White equivalent to Rev. Wright.
I'd also like briefly to add that the supposed "shock" of fence-sitting, sincere, white moderates (to use the phrases you used) is not excusable. I am quite well-versed in a variety of white opinions...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-25-2008, 12:46 PM
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Replies: 105
Views: 87,149
Re: White equivalent to Rev. Wright.
I know I'm late to this scene, but I must say that the flap over Reverend Wright is rather hilarious to me. Much like the prophet for whom he was named, Jeremiah Wright suggested that America has run...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
01-17-2008, 12:41 PM
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Replies: 101
Views: 39,046
steinem's imagination
Hi, Jay J:
The Steinem article struck me, actually, as quite strange. First, she invented an imaginary black woman to prove the sexism affecting Hillary Clinton and all women candidates. Strange,...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
01-17-2008, 11:36 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 16,502
Re: Obama's empty speeches
Hoofin:
I, too, had been extremely disappointed with Obama's vague speeches, until I remembered an episode from my own life.
Eleven years ago, I was running to be the first black student...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
01-17-2008, 11:14 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 16,502
Re: Race, Sex, and Religion in Politics
Basman, you asked for an accessible argument for the structural embeddedness of race in regards to Loury's pessimistic assessment of an Obama candidacy.
_Whitewashing Race_ ed, Brown, Duster, (et...
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