i cannot agree with this enough (from “african american political thought: a collected history”)
i’d say a related phenomenon is the extent to which african american political thinking is reduced to simply “race” or “race relations”
thinking back to last year when i wrote “the slaves freed the slaves” in a column and a group of people on here lost their minds
melvin rogers and jack turner conclude this essay by drawing an analogy to socrates as presented in plato’s apology and it makes for a powerful observation
watching HIGH ON THE HOG and learning about this restaurant “hatchet hall” in LA that serves the food of hercules caesar and james hemings and i want to buy a plane ticket and head over there immediately
it is very interesting to think about how enslaved chefs trained in french techniques shaped and influenced cuisine throughout the south and by way of their descendants, the country and the world
the folk civics around the filibuster is very similar to the folk civics around the electoral college in that both are very clearly after the fact justifications for rules that make no sense and have no logical basis nymag.com/intelligencer/…
“the filibuster was created to promote bipartisanship” is as fantastical as “the electoral college was made to protect rural voters”
i actually do blame (anti-new deal partisan) frank capra for 75 percent of filibuster mythology
being a do-nothing senator is a great gig. you have good pay, great benefits, a big staff that will tend to your needs, a platform for whatever you want to say, and you can travel a bunch too. after six years, you can parlay your experience into a 7-figure paycheck doing nothing.
the thing is, filibuster shenanigans aside, all the reporting i’ve read depicts her as someone with active contempt for liberal interest groups and constituents. if she wants to get reelected, that’s a weird way to go about it.
I’ll say this is right but that it matters that one side’s vision of democracy is inclusive of the entire polity (no one is looking for ways to exclude rural whites from the vote) and one side’s clearly isn’t
Far from some novel application of “woke” ideology, this is a summary of a thesis Hannah Arendt advanced in The Origins of Totalitarianism and one Aime Cesaire offered in Discourse on Colonialism.
I might amend the summary in the original piece to say “racial antisemitism and white supremacy” to be very specific, but “white supremacy” alone is fine if you just assume it is inclusive of “racial antisemitism” since in this context, it obviously is.
seriously this place loves parking mandates. its downtown core is close to being an unbroken set of surface lots, and yet people constantly complain there isn’t enough parking.
the city’s own data says we have more than enough parking but do not tell that to various business owners and city staffers, who insist that our economic survival depends on building ever more parking