All Posts Tagged With: "Dr. Salamishah Tillet"
The Case For Black Reparations
And The City that Care Forgot “East New Orleans”
BlackProf
by Dr. Salamishah Tillet - Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
I just visited East New Orleans and the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. We drove around these two towns — neighborhoods formerly predominated by African-Americans, respectively upper-middle class and working-class, and disproportionately ravaged [...]
All The Men Are Black, All The Women Are White,
and Some of Us Vote: A Remix
BlackProf
by Salamishah Tillet
I spent the better half of Tuesday afternoon, listening to and reading the transcript of Barack Obama’s speech on “race.” Obama’s address was thoughtful, progressive, eloquent, brilliant, moving, and insightful. He did all the things I wanted him to do, acknowledged the founding “sin” of [...]
Does Obama Agree With His Pastor? Is Obamas Pastor A Racist?
Controversial Comments by Obama’s Pastor
Real Clear Politics
In another of Pastor Wright’s sermons he preaches;
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. [...]
Hillary Clinton Faces Tough Questions at Black Press Forum
The African American vote has deserted Hillary
Fox News Embeds
by Aaron Bruns
Audience members ran through a litany of her campaign’s offenses — from her husband comparing Sen Barack Obama to Jesse Jackson, to her supporter Geraldine Ferraro claiming that Obama was “lucky” to be winning, and wouldn’t be if he was a white man. One attendee [...]
