Posts tagged: barack obama
- Thoughts on Barack Obama and Choosing Blackness
- I use “black” and refer to blackness and black culture in a variety of ways in this post. In some contexts, I mean “descended from Africans and living in the United States.” In others I mean “descended from Africans enslaved in the United States.” I tried to be clear, but sometimes that just isn’t enough. [...] [8 Jan 2009]
- Dear cousin Chris,
- Remember that conversation we had about ten years ago — you know, the one in your grandmother’s kitchen? I think you were seven or eight at the time. I had just graduated from college. My dad (your mom’s first cousin) was there too. I don’t remember why the subject came up. But I do remember [...] [6 Nov 2008]
- Obama, fuck yeah!
- By Canadian illustrator Marc Johns [5 Nov 2008]
- And with that …
- … it looks like Barack Obama will be our next president. I have no words. Okay, I have a few, but I will save them for later when I can string them together coherently. [4 Nov 2008]
- But what if Obama loses?
- He didn’t . By this time tomorrow, polls all along the east coast will be open and ready for citizens to cast their ballots. Roughly twelve hours later, we’ll start to get the nation’s first results in an election that is, for many reasons (starting with how f*ckin’ long ago the campaigning started), historic. Most [...] [3 Nov 2008]
- Barack Obama’s Secret Alliances
- [15 Oct 2008]
- Mike Gravel vs. Obama: “Juneau What? Anchorage What?”
- I might just vote for him. He says he’s a Libertarian, but he’s also quite progressive and I agree with him on many issues. Anyone who doesn’t take himself so seriously that he will learn and do the Soulja Boy in a campaign video has to be at least a little bit cool, right? [8 May 2008]
- In defense (um, sort of) of Geraldine Ferraro
- I’ve been meaning to write a post about Geraldine Ferraro. But you know, SxSW got in the way. I did however come across and comment on Dave Winer’s post about Ferraro’s comments. My comment was pretty much what I would have said in a blog entry, so I’m posting it here as well. I think [...] [15 Mar 2008]