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At 11:38 AM 11/6/2008, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: i think it’s the way we fetishize voting and elections in this country, isn’t it? that voting is actually doing something, and then nothing else is required? it will be interesting to see if they can hold it together. it would pretty genuinely change american politics if they [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Seeing as how Chuckie’s back from vaca, it reminded me to share something I’d already shared at LBO. In my latest trip to the library, I stumbled over a book that caught my eye, Sara Maza’s The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. I’m getting desperately, desperately bored by [...]

I think you were wrong about what you said last night, Gary. For those who don’t know, Gary’s an old friend of mine and we yakked on the phone for about four hours last night. Anyway, I think Gary and I might have it wrong about blogging and memory. I don’t know if it’s good [...]

Somehow, I’m not expecting the Dem-candidates to do much about this, eh? Aside from which, where IS ginmar when you need outrage against enslavement? hmm? Migrant workers chained beaten and forced into debt, exposing the human cost of producing cheap food By Leonard Doyle in Immokalee, Floride Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by [...]

The people on the fourth floor have, for the fourth time, gone out on their party porch and tossed a substance, this time dirt, below where it lands on *our* party porch — or sometimes our porch or the sidewalk in front of the porch. Through the fall, it was mostly water. Then, once, dude [...]

hee. I lied. Well, I got up to go chill in front of the tube for awhile. But then I saw the soup I’d made. yum. I’ve been diggin’ on soup made of yogurt, spices, chicken, and some veggies. Great for cold, wintry days. I love winter! So, I reheated the soup and read the [...]

I’m almost finished with Matt Wray’s Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. Yeah, it’s a quick read. Plus, I cheated. At work, I spent coffee breaks, lunch, and gotta get my head clear of bug chasing breaks reading the book. I figure I’m more productive that way. *smirk* I’m kinda whooped [...]

I’m just heading into Wray’s chapter on the eugenics movement aimed at whites in the u.s. It’s not often discussed, I guess, but there was a concerted effort to either place what were considered biologically degenerate whites into segregated communities or, more popularly, to sterilize them and prevent them from contaminating the good society. It’s [...]

ugh. it was a loooooooooooooong day. I went in early to decorate K’s desk with balloons. My software dev director and I took K out for lunch at a local Indian restaurant. Much better than the others I’ve been to — though not as good as the one in LimpDick! It’s been pretty hectic b/c [...]