Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): Shaun Mullen at the Moderate Voice: It is no accident that there are so many older African-Americans waiting in the long lines […]
Did you notice that all polling organizations are liberal?
Did you know that Fox News is a liberal news organization? Not because it’s part of the so-called liberal media, but rather because Fox is based in the liberal bastion of New […]
America's Negro Cracker Problem: none of us are free
Part two in a series. There’s a rising tide on the rivers of blood But if the answer isn’t violence, neither is your silence – Pop Will Eat Itself, “Ich Bin Ein […]
Nota Bene #45
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): In an American Prospect article, “Business as Usury,” Thomas Geoghegan writes: “Had we protected the poor and the weak, the problems of […]
America's Negro Cracker Problem: Ich bin ein Auslander
Part one in a series. Listen to the victim, abused by the system The basis is racist, you know that we must face this In 1991 Pop Will Eat Itself produced one […]
JonBenet, pt. 3: time to wake up, Professor Tracey
by Michael Tracey In the mid-1980s David Mills had tried to get a budget together to make a documentary based on my work on public broadcasting, making the case that market forces […]
Nota Bene #44
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): From a McClatchy blog, on something called the Reverse Bradley Effect: “. . . a new study today says that polls may […]
JonBenet, pt. 2: vile bigotry and voodoo stupidity
by Michael Tracey Several incidents in particular focused my attention not on the murder but on how we seemed to be dealing with it as a culture. In March 1997 the CU […]
JonBenet, pt. 1: the establishment of a narrative
by Michael Tracey SHE pass’d away like morning dew Before the sun was high; So brief her time, she scarcely knew The meaning of a sigh. As round the rose its soft […]
Poetry and lyrics are not the same thing: Hegemony, part 2
I’m tired of hearing that rock stars and rappers are poets. They’re nothing of the sort. A couple weeks I go I offered up part one in a series on poetry vs. […]
