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A new Poynter Institute piece on NY Post cartoonist Sean Delonas's February 18 offering--which may or may not have depicted Barack Obama as a dead chimp --includes a semi-exoneration from the excellent cartoonist Ted Rall : Rall, who is familiar with...
In which I argue that the recent clamor over Barack Obama becoming first black president misrepresents the recent past--and could have pernicious effects on the future.
Yesterday's Globe " Names " column included a nugget re: Gwen Ifill's new book, The Breakthrough , on the new generation of black politicians. After calling the flap over Ifill's role as presidential-debate moderator overblown, "Names"...
In an LA Times article that was reprinted in today's Globe, reporter Richard Fausset speculates on the implications of the use of "ain't" by Anh Cao, a Vietnamese-American challenger to Congressman William Jefferson, who's black...
I'm loathe to pose this question, since race is always an incendiary subject, and the alleged concern about Boston's alleged racism that Kevin Garnett was erroneously saddled with upon joining the Celtics has been justifiably forgotten. But I'll...
I have a running argument with a friend about which anti-Obama attacks are racist. For example, I thought the McCain camp's Obama-disrespects-Palin ad played on toxic racist sentiments involving black men and white women. My friend didn't see...
Currently on the front page of Drudge, with the headline "Obama goes door-to-door to drum up votes..." No further comment--except that it'll be interesting to see whether and how this image gets used in the coming weeks:
Today on Salon, Gary Kamiya makes a convincing connection between John McCain's new win-at-all-costs strategy and the approach Barry Goldwater used during the final days of his '64 run against Lyndon Johnson: In fall 1964, Barry Goldwater was...
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