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Moreover, with blacks in the third world occupying the lowest rungs in the global economy, we need to explore Marable’s idea of a “new racial domain” and see how structural racism, mass unemployment and incarceration, disease and disenfranchisement lower the life chances of blacks globally. Instead of disregarding the political thought of Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X as anachronistic or misguided, it might be time to resurrect the Pan-African focus in order to combat the most severe crisis in the African Diaspora since colonialism. We live in a world where those...
Many black academics are proficient at delivering depressing statistics, but they have not quite mastered the art of helping students organize solutions to such problems. Therefore, politically engaged black students are often at the mercy of left-wing activists who grapple with their own racial insecurities, washed-up black politicians and broad yet tenuous interethnic coalitions that disintegrate over cleavage issues. Few black intellectuals willingly offer themselves as mentors to existing student groups who are attempting to do exciting organizing around hip-hop politics or AIDS. As a result, black intellectuals appear aloof and students are more interested in Halo...
...pocketful of ideas for the upcoming year. The Arts Collective, for example, might be putting a “perpetual piece of art” somewhere on campus that people could add to as they walked by, while the Education Committee organizes training sessions on activism for democracy, racial equality and alternative schooling. The Social Committee will be organizing parties, musical events, as well as an upcoming film series to be shown at 45 Mt. Auburn Street...
...freewheeling question-and-answer session following the justice’s prepared remarks, an African-American graduate student challenged Scalia to defend the constitutionality of racial profiling...
...What the Fourth Amendment prohibits is ‘unnecessary’ search and seizure,” the justice said. “Is it racial profiling prohibited by the Fourth Amendment for the police to go looking for a white man with blue eyes? Do you want to stop little old ladies with tennis shoes...