Hillary Clinton: Ready at 3AM to Blow Up Some People of Color

This ad is the most implicitly racist and xenophobic of the political season that I’ve seen. It’s the new ad Senator Clinton is playing going into the Texas, Ohio, Vermont, Rhode Island primary weekend. It is a tool to paint … Continue reading read more »

Boondocks Takes on BET

Remember just a few short weeks ago I said that Hillary Clinton’s campaign made a huge mistake to have choice of BET founder Bob Johnson stumping for her to the Black community? You don’t? Well here’s what I brilliantly predicted: … Continue reading read more »

Obama-Clinton Showdown: The Lessons of South Carolina

Blogger Jonathan Stein over at Mother Jones beat me to the punch on this one, but that’s one of the tragedies of having a full-time job and trying to blog at the same time. But in all the back patting … Continue reading read more »

The Dirty Dozens: Race, Civil Rights and the Democrats

It’s gettin hot in herr! The gloves are coming off, and people are now being forced to take sides. Senator Hillary Clinton has been trying to spin herself out of a whole she dug when she, at an attempt to … Continue reading read more »

NH Drama: Did Voting Machines Skew Victory to Clinton?

The blogosphere is awash today with rumors that there were major voting irregularities in New Hampshire–paper ballots count Obama as the winner whereas Diebold electronic machines count Clinton as the winner of the presidential primary. I tried to cut to … Continue reading read more »

Bitten By The Obama Bug: New Hampshire Be Damned!

I’ve been obsessed with the election. I admit it. I guess that makes me a bad radical. Good revolutionaries (at least in America, for some reason) aren’t supposed to be concerned with elections and the political process (I think leftists … Continue reading read more »

Election Gagger: Obama Reads Clinton, And Closes In On Her Lead

Obama is playin the dozens now! Last week, Senator Hillary Clinton was again talking to the press about how much experience she has, and how little Senator Barack Obama has, and why this would make her a better president. Clinton … Continue reading read more »

Black Women Voting Power: New York Times & Washington Post Cover Clinton/Obama Tactics In South Carolina

It seems really strange that the New York Times and the Washington Post would run news stories both taking place in Black beauty shops to talk about th efight for Black women’s vote in South Carolina. But today, they did. … Continue reading read more »

10/16: Race, Gender and The 2008 Election

If you’re in NYC, come check out this panel! Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality New York University presents GENDER, RACE, AND THE 2008 ELECTION “Are Americans ready to elect a woman or a black man as president?” … Continue reading read more »