Power of the sister vote
An old Ghanaian proverb says, “Until the lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” Journalism is the first draft of history. In the wake of Democrats’ shellacking in the midterm election, journalists and pundits blamed low black turnout for their losses. They compared 2010 turnout with 2008, but [...]
Every Presidential election cycle, the pundits and talking heads proclaim the decisive importance of the youth vote. All too often, the much-heralded ‘youth vote’ fails to materialize as predicted. A surge in youth organizing and civic participation in the late 1960, and the patent unfairness of asking young men –who were ineligible to vote– to [...]
Continue reading …Originally published at St. Louis Beacon A string of recent news stories have been fodder for those who cannot tolerate ambiguity in relation to race. Often in our country people are criticized for being too sensitive about the topic and making something out of nothing. Yet those ambiguous events matter, and perceptions matter. It is [...]
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By Terrion L. Williamson, Remember Don Imus? Remember how upset we were a few years back when the wretched shock-jock and his pals took to the airwaves to dis women of the Rutgers women’s basketball team, after they just missed winning the NCAA championship, referring to the black team members as nappy-headed hos? Remember how [...]
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