We’ve all done it. What you may ask? Hold on, I will tell you later…. Ok, we are back. Sorry about procrastinating. Hey we all do it. I consider myself an academic planner but I do at times procrastinate about reading, writing, grading papers, blogging here, calling such and such, responding to that email, etc. […]
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Cornel West and Tavis Smiley appeared on Democracy Now yesterday to discuss the election. Here are a few responses. The question is, are these critiques dead on or simply too harsh? On money spent on the election and Obama in blackface… “I think that it’s morally obscene and spiritually profane to spend $6 billion on
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Here is some funny. Obama has been re-elected. Ok that’s not the funny part. That’s the “thank god, all fairies, and the stars and the moons because I was nervous” part. The funny part is Key and Peele or should I say Obama and his anger translator, Luther. They celebrated last night by doing the
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I love Martha Nussbaum. Its not only because we share similar philosophical interests (value of the emotions, philosophy of law, political theory, and cosmopolitanism) but because I also think that she combines brilliance, class, grace, and confidence in a very beautiful way. James Harmon has a book out called “Take My Advice” and has included
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I recently finished Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish” and I believe I deserve an award. I will not go into detail why that is a victory for someone like myself who loves the analytical tradition of philosophy, universal definitions, and normative claims; I will save that for another post in which I will take time
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Yesterday Supreme Court Justices began hearing arguments against and in support of affirmative action as an ethical necessity in achieving the goal of diversity in higher education. While this is not a new issue in public policy or within philosophy (Bernard Boxill & Howard McGary has written great articles about this issue), affirmative action is
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I hear people all the time who are disillusioned by the political process say “my vote don’t matter”. My initial response is always “If it didn’t mater, then why have “they” and why do “they” try to stop you from voting”. The logical reason is because it does matter! Your vote matters. Forget the jargon
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You know when you have really made an impact in the world? NO, its not by the money that is thrown at your feet, its when the world creates money with your face on it in appreciation. South Africa has just released bank notes with the face of former South African president and political prisoner,
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I love Dr. Angela Davis. As a black, woman philosopher I look up to her. As a human who wants to see change in the world, I admire her. Early this summer we got a peak into her infamous case through the Black Power MixTape, but soon we will see a documentary devoted fully to
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