I just read “Some Arizona University Programs Threatened by Proposed Ban on Affirmative Action” by Peter Schmidt (author of Color and Money), and it reminded me of a few questions I asked of a few Black and Hispanic lawyers during a recent meeting. Here are paraphrased versions of the questions I asked.
1) Why would a [...]
Temple University African American Studies Professor Molefi Asante provides the following definition for ‘Afrocentricity’.
[1] Afrocentricity is a mode of thought and action in which the centrality of African interests, values, and perspectives predominate. [2] In regards to theory, it is the placing of African people in the center of any analysis of African phenomena. [3] [...]
“To Hell with your criticism…I don’t care about what you have to say about what I did. It’s what I did.”
—Oprah Winfrey, commenting in an interview broadcast by BET’s Meet the Faith on people who’ve criticized her decision to invest $40 million in a school for South African women.
First, an admission: I thought Oprah’s [...]
The format of the forum and the questions asked did not enable us to learn much more about how the candidates are different. Additionally, since most of the questions were, in my opinion, poorly written, enabling the politicians to all but ignore the actual questions and to speak to general themes or their talking points [...]
I have been calling inner-city gang-bangers and drug-dealers terrorists for years. Even though I would agree with analysts who point the finger at structural causes, failed governments and failed economies, for the growth of violent inner-city gang-bangers and drug-dealers, I still believe firmly that labeling them as terrorists is appropriate. And I believe firmly that [...]
As I observed the Imus scandal aftermath with great interest, I began to wish, for a brief time, that I had entered and completed a Ph.D. program in social psychology or sociology or some other social science many years ago; that I had gone on to publish a few dues-paying essays or an exoteric book [...]