http://jailbreakpress.org An Online Journal for Anarchists of Color Thu, 08 May 2008 23:58:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a remarkable interview with USA Today Clinton made it clear why she thinks she should be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008- She’s White. Obama isn’t. She can win over “hard working White Americans.” Obama can’t. Case closed. Apparently there is no road too low for the Clinton ... http://jailbreakpress.org/2008/05/08/scraping-the-bottom-clinton-makes-blatant-racial-appeal/ Never before has empirical data counted for so little among pundits in a nominating race. Clinton’s 9 point victory in Pennsylvania has lead the political class over the deep end with coverage about Obama’s alleged problems with the party’s White working class and his inability to win crucial states in ... http://jailbreakpress.org/2008/04/25/clinton%e2%80%99s-new-math-can%e2%80%99t-change-old-facts/ An educated Black man is still a relatively rare specimen in contemporary America. Only about 8 percent of Black males have Bachelor’s Degrees. Due to this fact Black males are often in demand in circles that value diversity. I’m sure that this sometimes has lead a few institutions to lower ... http://jailbreakpress.org/2008/04/04/obama-the-%e2%80%9ceducated-negro%e2%80%9d/ The specter of Black leaders like Charles Rangel, Andrew Young and BET President Robert Johnson dissing Barack Obama- while cuddling up to the Clintons was enough to make me spend a minute to take a second look at the Clinton record on race and its lasting effects on the Black ... http://jailbreakpress.org/2008/04/03/the-clinton%e2%80%99s-real-race-record/ Conservatives like Charles Krauthammer and Michael Gerson have claimed in recent Washington Post columns that in his March 18th speech on race, Barack Obama tried to equate his grandmother's fear of Black males passing on the street and Geraldine Ferraro’s comments about Obama’s political fortunes being based on his blackness ... http://jailbreakpress.org/2008/03/28/the-false-equivalence-of-false-equivalence/ Sarah Jane Olson’s arrest at an airport and re-incarceration only a few days after being released from prison is the latest example of the failure of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to shift its culture from one based on punishment and prisoner recycling to rehabilitation and community re-integration. ... http://jailbreakpress.org/2008/03/28/the-olson-outrage/ Mitt Romney had to directly address religion during his primary run in order to assuage the concerns of a critical part of the Republican Party base. Now Obama must speak up about race in order to make clear to all Americans how he views himself in relation to this country’s ... http://jailbreakpress.org/2008/03/17/the-ali-woods-folk-in-the-road-why-obama-must-talk-about-race/