A former war correspondent sees the civil rights movement as a kind of military campaign—and helps us envision how to win the current war for democracy.
Debra Dickerson
Debra Dickerson, a Washington Monthly editorial advisory board member, is the author most recently of The End of Blackness.
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Two-fer: How to stab both your race and your gender in the back with one post
Two-fer: How to stab both your race and your gender in the back with one post….Kevin foolishly forgot to disable my password, so, never one to under stay my welcome, I just had to John-Hancock another demerit onto my ghetto and womyn’s room passes when I ran across this interview with Craig Brewer, writer and […]
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We have met the enemy
We have met the enemy….The race for Newark’s mayoralty has begun. Oh goody. Sharpe James is running for his sixth term. Where, oh where do we begin with this man? America’s last sitting mayor who is a Movement veteran, he makes $213,000 a year, more than any American governor. What a great mayor he must […]
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Barack Obama was right
Barak Obama was right….When he quipped to Jon Stewart, “the only person more hyped than me is you.”
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It’s No Theory That This is a Conspiracy
It’s No Theory That This is a Conspiracy….It’s taken me two days to digest and respond to Nick Chiles’ excellent New York Times piece on the sorry state of black literature and the crucial role that the big book chains play in it. Chiles’ point: Last month I happened to go into the Borders Books […]
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George Will, his own worst enemy
George Will, his own worst enemy…..Will is a reluctant liberal’s (I’m only one because ‘conservative’ is the only other viable option. Moderate schmoderate) dream. I viscerally disagree with just about everything he says (the baseball stuff renders me immediately blind and illiterate, so it doesn’t count) but it’s usually so simultaneously persuasive and so fundamentally […]
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Affirmative action is un-American, racist, condescending, infantilizing, and the final sign of the Apocalypse/Rapture. Unless it’s the right kind of affirmative action
Affirmative action is un-American, racist, condescending, infantilizing, and the final sign of the Apocalypse/Rapture. Unless it’s the right kind of affirmative action…. The kind that hurts America but helps religion and the GOP’s far right wing. Salon has the goods on the latest Bush-mongered ‘speaks in tongues well but couldn’t find her buttocks with both […]
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Proof that a little knowledge is dangerous
Proof that a little knowledge is dangerous….Check this out from the New York Times: Minister, a Bush Ally, Gives Church as Site for Alito Rally. The Rev. Herbert H. Lusk II is a maverick (emphasis added) black minister who took to his pulpit in Philadelphia in 2000 and pledged his support for a Bush presidency, […]
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What nerds dream about
What nerds dream about….The Washington Post tells of a groovy new national push to systematically promote and support learning foreign languages. Useful ones like Mandarin and Russian, vice French (neuf useless years pour moi. Sigh.) and German (Spanish, with its three million students, is the most taught language in America so we got that covered). […]
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Dudes. Quit Bogarting
Dudes. Quit Bogarting….For a person WHO NEVER SHUTS UP, being asked to guest blog anywhere is a little like asking Anna Nicole Smith if she’d like to ‘entertain’ the newly reincarnated but still insane Howard Hughes. Duh, yes!!! Then, the time comes, guest blog time. You have two political science degrees….a law degree…….libel insurance….a huge […]
