Wear Clean Draws  (’coz there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

Obama’s currently doing no worse among whites – a 12-point deficit to John McCain in the Newsweek data – than Al Gore did; he lost them by an identical 12 points in 2004, yet won the popular vote. John Kerry lost whites, moreover, by 17 points; Mike Dukakis, by 19 points.
Each of these three Democrats […]

I really really really really want to love the SEIU, but this takes the cake.
April 17, 2008
Marchel Smiley, President SEIU National AFRAM Caucus 1673 Columbia Road NM # 100 Washington, DC 20009
RE: SEIU Exploits African American Women and Children at Labor Notes Conference
Dear President Smiley:
In Dearborn, Michigan on Saturday, April 12, 2008, SEIU staffers invited […]

we just got back from a last minute foray to target and walmart where we headed out to purchase those wooden pants hangars. this is, of course, notable because this bitch wouldn’t have ever spent nearly $1 a piece on freakin’ hangars a year ago. hell, last summer, when we moved into the condo out […]

i miss limpdick for this reason only. thank god for internet radio and youtube: Omali Yeshitela: Barack Obama and the crisis of the imperialist state and economy. Not that anyone reading this needs to be reminded of Yeshitela’s message.

There’s been an on-going debate about Obama’s candidacy. A fellah named Julio Huato argued that Obama’s presidency would create a worldwide upsurge in the self-assurance of black people across the globe and seeing as how they are the most oppressed in this country and globally, then it would be a good thing:
“But the strongest reason […]

in a list discussion recently, there’s been talk about raising the price of a small conference, from $10 - $40. I’m not going anyway, it’s just more money for hotel, etc. than I want to spend and would, for me, be better spent on seeing my son. Not to mention time I’ll have to take […]

huh. I never looked at it this way, but I think SEK gave me accidentally good advice. In Scott’s best of his blog posts for 2007 edition, he points at this post wherein I read SEK’s translation:

original: 6. I dropped out of high school as a junior and took the GED. I transferred to Berkeley […]

Monthly Review Press has just published a book by Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger, titled “On the Global Waterfront.” It details an important laobr struggle on the Charleston, SC docks and tells us much about the US labor movement, racism, global capitalism, and the heroism of dedicated. mostly black, dock workers.
“On the Global […]

red is missing there. Forgot to mention that I’d also picked up Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics by Earl Ofari Hutchinson. It was featured on the new book shelf and caught my eye — and turned out to be fascinating in light of the debates that erupted […]

In my post on the book, The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie, I noted that Maza’s argument is in line with something others have noted about the marker “yuppie”. Its usage indicates that it’s an identity against which people nearly always define themselves in opposition. People don’t want to be called yuppies and, if they […]