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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Media Blitz or Why Obama is a Flake about Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So if you haven&#8217;t noticed that President Obama has been on a media blitz for the last couple of days&#8230; you must be living [under a rock?] The most entertaining of these appearances was Obama&#8217;s visit to the Letterman show last night. As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I think Obama&#8217;s refusal to engage race is problematic. [...]
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		<title>Check These Out</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/09/18/check-these-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week has been full of really interesting writing on the web, so I thought I would share some of the funniest/thought provoking/cool stuff I&#8217;ve come across over the last couple of days&#8230; 1. Amazing article by Naomi Klein about the way Obama has ignored Black Americans, well worth the long read. 2. Policy initiative [...]
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		<title>Where is the Black Liberal Agenda?</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/09/14/where-is-the-black-liberal-agenda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we all had the opportunity to watch Barack Obama&#8217;s healthcare speech: A couple of weeks ago I asked, where is Obama&#8217;s Political Saavy? And in the above speech I believe not only did he find it, but he remembered what the people who voted him into office [overwhelmingly] mandated. So needless to say [...]
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		<title>We Need More Than Bootstrapping to Improve Education</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/09/08/we-need-more-than-bootstrapping-to-improve-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-Post from Uptown Notes Today, President Barack Obama will deliver an address to the children of the United States on the value of education. The speech has been met with a firestorm of reaction and disapproval by critics on the right, many of whom have called it a dangerous form of indoctrination. There is a [...]
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		<title>The Feminist Hoopla Over Babies</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/09/02/the-white-feminist-hoopla-over-babies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Katie Rophie wrote a piece on Double X about the way in which her &#8220;newborn is like a narcotic.&#8221; In it she talks about her deep love affair with her newborn child. In the six weeks since my baby was born, I seem to have lost all worldly ambition. I can think about September, [...]
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		<title>Mainstream Feminists and Feminists of Color</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was perusing twitter the other day, I stumbled across a link to a blog Rebecca Walker wrote recently. In it, she lambasted Katie Roiphe and the rest of mainstream feminism for their obsession with Rophie&#8217;s latest piece on motherhood. What makes me sick about this &#8220;excitement&#8221; on Salon and all the other white [...]
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		<title>R.I.P. to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina, Ted Kennedy &amp; Michael Jackson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although seemingly such three different figures/events, perhaps it is appropriate that we celebrate/remember all of these lives together. All of these figures have pushed us to think about those less fortunate then ourselves, those who have been forgotten and gone uncared for in this country and around the world
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		<title>Road to Freedom Exhibit: : Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement 1956-1968</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, I found myself emotionally moved by the exhibit as well. While many of the images I had seen before, some... like a photo of a young man with a dog's teeth literally gauging his stomach... were shockingly new to me.
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		<title>R.I.P. Ted Kennedy 1932-2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the United States lost an important political figure, Edward Moore &#8220;Ted&#8221; Kennedy. He fought tirelessly for universal health care, calling it, the &#8220;cause of his life.&#8221; I chose to post the above video because I think it says something powerful about Ted Kennedy&#8217;s resiliency. He himself said that he &#8220;defied his illness&#8221; (he had [...]
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		<title>Happy Birthday Marcus Garvey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born of Jamaican roots on August 17, 1887, Marcus Garvey is the grandfather of pan-Africanist cultural movements throughout the diaspora. His Universal Negro Improvement Association went onto inspire generations of movements, scholars and black people across the world. Today, I encourage all of you to take a moment out to remember this powerful ancestor, and [...]
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