Author Archives: Jack Stephens

David Schraub blogs:
Many contemporary anti-racism activists have expressed frustration in the way MLK–and indeed, the entire 60s civil rights movement–has been “neutered” so as to mask just how radical and revolutionary its agenda was (and, by extension, how far short we fell from achieving it). I’ve noticed, along with this, a meme that floats around […] Continue reading →

Zee writes about the outpouring of support for the Jena 6:
This should show people that the cries of inequality and racism over Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were accurate. Remember that white officials in Louisiana stopped Black people at gunpoint when they were trying to escape the city. We were not even allowed to walk […] Continue reading →

Arjun Sen, of the blog Rantings of a Gaged Journalist, writes about how the poor in India are a ticking time bomb ready to lash out against the authorities:
That is why even in Left-ruled West Bengal the so-called communists make sure that the administration and the law enforcement agencies protect the interests of the rich […] Continue reading →

Jaguarito writes:
I contend that today, no liberation project can limit itself to the national terrain, and that our struggles must be global if we are to achieve true liberation. Key to this is an understanding that capitalist sovereignty no longer resides at the level of individual nation-states, but rather, at the level of the global. […] Continue reading →

Woman of Color PhD blogs about how white society accuses people of color bloggers and their white allies of blowing small incidents out of proportion and that in reality they are the ones causing racism, not that America is racist:
What is telling about this accusation is not only how easy it is to do a […] Continue reading →

Elle, at elle, phd, posts a video on one of her posts in where a Black high school girl is arrested for spilling some cake at her high school:
Professor Black Woman on how recent incidents of violence against PoC are not “isolated incidents” but part of a pattern. She also notes how PoC and their […] Continue reading →

Dr. Anonymous blogs about an article that Robert Kaplan wrote for the Times about Asian and its political future:
Robert Kaplan, a writer for the Atlantic Monthly, considers American imperialist concerns in Asia in the Times. The article is anything but pacific.
Here’s my favorite part:
Asia’s military-economic vigor is the product of united political, economic and military […] Continue reading →