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Barack Obama and His Pastor— Not Black Enough or Too Black?

Posted in race-ecology-class, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I like the picture Clarence Page is painting in the article below. Very balanced and thoughtful.
I resonate strongly with most of the positions he articulates.
From the start, I have thought it utterly ridiculous that people got upset about Wright’s “the chickens come home to roost” comment. As Tim Wise noted in a blog [...]

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Prequel to There’s no such thing as greenwashing

Posted in race-ecology-class, tagged , , on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The day before the second meeting on the New Green Deal, I put out the word to some folks of color about the meeting. Everyone was supposed to bring someone to the meeting. Several folks expressed interest. And Babak Tondre of DIG Cooperative said yes. I picked him up at the [...]

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There’s no such thing as greenwashing

Posted in corporatism, globalization, localization, race-ecology-class, tagged , , , on January 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »

That’s what she told me. Huh? We were at a party closing out the Culture Catch Salon for MacWorld 2008. DJ Dragonfly had done an awesome set of organic grooves earlier and DJ KnowOne was most of the way through a fun set of breakbeats. I happened to taking a breather, [...]

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