Urban/Global Politics

We’re Not the World

Not going with an image here because we’ve been bombarded with them. The worst natural disaster in our lifetime is beyond tragic, particularly because those who are suffering have suffered enough over the last several decades. The people of Haiti have become martyrs, and represent perhaps the last hope that the conscience of the Western […]

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Urban/Global Politics

Negrophobia

The most sensible analysis of the Harry Reid “Negro” fiasco is that it is one more mainstream media-led distraction from various turmoils such as the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, the still perilous fate of health-care reform, the looming immigration-reform debate, and the unemployment and mortgage crises.  As heard on Errol Louis’s WWRL morning show, the […]

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Urban/Global Politics

Harlem Displace-aissance

It was something anyone who’s spent any time uptown over the last couple of years is well aware of. By losing it’s blackness, Harlem has become the new black. The latest New York Times “fait accompli” report, this time by Sam Roberts, was the culmination of a series of real-time real-estate oriented dispatches from younger […]

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