Bain Capital and Wall Street Gave Newark Mayor Cory Booker $565,000 for Campaign
Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker has taken a lot of heat in recent days for defending Romney’s Bain Capital against the Obama reelection campaign’s attacks. In an interview with ‘Meet the Press’, Booker said, “I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” and “If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s [...]
Yvette Carnell: Do Black Intellectuals Work for the Black Community or the Obama 2012 Campaign?
by Yvette Carnell I’m fine with cultural critcism. Really, I am. I’m all for encouraging black writers who offer analysis for why certain themes emerge in American life, while others are marginalized. Public intellectuals love this stuff. African-American public intellectuals clamor for the opportunity to opine on the impact of race, more than anything. Again, [...]
Mayor Cory Booker Slams Obama, Says He’s “Very Uncomfortable” With Attacks on Bain Capital
President Obama and Democrats are poised to make Mitt Romney’s work at Bain Capital the center of their campaign, but obviously, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker didn’t get the memo. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet The Press” on Sunday, Mayor Cory Booker said he was “uncomfortable” with the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s record [...]
Activists Declare War Against the War on Drugs
During a town hall meeting in Pittsburgh on May 11, the Institute for the Black World 21st Century talked about the war on drugs and it’s devastating impact on the African American community. As a result of the war, which was declared a failure long ago, millions of African Americans have been affected and had [...]
Yvette Carnell: Is the Obama Administration Torturing Terror Suspects on a ‘Gitmo at the Sea’ ?
by Yvette Carnell People who you think are guilty of a crime aren’t always guilty of crime. Sometimes, in fact, they’re not guilty of anything. A few days ago, news broke that the state of Texas had executed the wrong man. It was assumed that Carlos DeLuna had murdered someone in Corpus Christi, Texas. He [...]
Yvette Carnell: There Are Gay People Who Are Black, But Gay is Not the New Black
by Yvette Carnell When President Obama announced his support for gay marriage, I wrote the following: I give Obama h**l when he’s wrong, but today, he did the right thing. I would’ve been disappointed had he stuck to his “still evolving” position. That position was crafted to win the middle without alienating either side. Today, [...]
Obama Raises $1 Million in 90 Minutes Over Support for Gay Marriage
Some in the black community have been bemoaning President Obama’s announcement supporting gay marriage yesterday, but Obama’s laughing all the way to the bank. Buzz Feed reports that the Obama campaign raised a cool $1 million dollars in 90 minutes because of his support for gay marriage: Already, gay donors, mostly men, reportedly constitute 1 in 6 [...]
Yvette Carnell: President Obama Deserves Credit For Making History on Same s*x Marriage Today
by Yvette Carnell No matter how opposed you are to President Obama’s policies up to this point, if you’re honest, you have to admit that today was a historic day in both Obama’s Presidency and in U.S. politics. Today, President Obama became the first sitting President to come out in favor of same s*x marriage: [...]
President Obama Comes Out In Favor of Same s*x Marriage
President Obama today announced that he now supports same-s*x marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president. In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place, based on conversations with his [...]
Yvette Carnell: How Can a Senate Panel Approve $631 Billion in Defense Spending If We’re Broke?
by Yvette Carnell Ever since Wall St. engineered the Great Recession, right wingers and Democrats alike have been cautioning us regular folk to tighten our belts, because hard times are coming. But as it turns out, hard times aren’t coming, at least not in any sort of unavoidable sense, and at least not for everybody. [...]
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