Race, Politics, and Late Obamanism
Obama-cowboy-hatfromRealityBasedBob.jpgby Paul StreetWe can’t wait to wave the tail end of Obama goodbye – a president who “has said and done less about racial inequality than any American chief...
View ArticleThe Obama Project and the Politics of Race
WholeSystemRacist.jpgby Paul StreetThe president expended 2,600 words to create the illusion of deep personal identification with the contemporary African American condition. But, in fact, Obama “has...
View ArticleWhite Racial Delusion, 50 Years After the March on Washington
ZimmermanMurderer.jpgby Paul StreetWhite America lives in a world of distortion. Only one-third of whites believe the killing of Trayvon Martin was “unjustified,” versus overwhelming numbers of Blacks....
View ArticleKing, Obama, and the Inner Core of Despotism
MLK_Obama.jpgby Paul StreetDr. Martin Luther King was a social revolutionary who preached that “a storm is rising against the theprivileged minority of the earth” that will result in a “just...
View Article“You Get a President… Nothing Else”
ObamaFlag.jpgby Paul StreetPresident Obama offered the crowds at the March on Washington commemoration…nothing, except the fact of a Black presidency. That’s all he’s ever offered. The question is:...
View ArticleFrom Daley Plaza to Syria: Obama’s Forgotten, Fading Imperial Promise
obama_imperialism.jpgby Paul StreetPurported progressives who claim to be shocked and appalled at President Obama’s warmongering have been willfully ignorant for a very long time. “Its’ a shame folks...
View ArticleObama as the “New JFK”: Nothing Great to Be
jfk_obama_080207_mn.jpgbyPaul StreetAs the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, the media will be awash with comparisons between JFK and Barack Obama. The two do,...
View ArticleDeleting Corporate Power: Dominant Media’s Superficial Coverage of Problems...
SinglePayerNow.gifbyPaul StreetCorporate media criticism of ObamaCare is mainly limited to the failures of its website. But the whole machinery has been rotten from its conception in a right-wing think...
View ArticleObama Ticket Prices and the Invisible Ruling Class
Obama-makes-wide-right-turns-caution-300x250-300x225.jpgby Paul StreetFrederick Harris’ very useful book on the “high price” – to Black folks – of the nation’s First Black President has been reissued...
View ArticleAge of Liberty, Age of Slavery
SlaveWorkers.gifby Paul StreetThe “Age of Liberty” for whites was an age of expanding slavery and genocide for the New World’s Black and Native American victims. “Of the known 10,148,288 Africans put...
View ArticleAnd Then Came Sharpton: Helping Keep Blacks in Their Place
by Paul StreetAl Sharpton polluted the air of Ferguson, Missouri, on a mission to restore peace and tranquility, i.e., the racist order. He castigated Blacks for indulging in self-pity, “as if engaging...
View ArticleNutty Professor Dyson’s Ridiculous Apology for Eric Holder
by Paul StreetShameless Obama apologist Michael Eric Dyson claims it was too politically dangerous for a Black attorney general to prosecute white Wall Street executives. “But the basic Too Big to...
View ArticleMass Killings of Blacks by Cops: An Absence of Outrage
by Paul StreetAfter two generations of mass Black incarceration, hyper-surveillance and police militarization as national policy, a nascent movement has finally arisen to demand that Black Lives...
View ArticleCapitalist Cotton Slavery and a Case (One Would Think) for Reparations
by Paul StreetBlack chattel slavery made the United States an economic powerhouse and a beacon to European immigrants. “By 1836 nearly half the nation’s economic activity derived directly and...
View ArticleBeyond Twelve Years A Slave
by Paul StreetAt the heart of American history lies an essential truth: the U.S. became an economic superpower based on the super-exploitation of Black slaves, to whom it owes reparations. In his new...
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