Say word. In the early, inchoate stages of PostBourgie’s existence, we used to do a lot more updating of the day-to-day goings-on in the presidential race. But, on the Democratic side, it’s been almost 16 months since Hillary Clinton formally began the presidential bid everyone expected since 1999 her conversation with America and just 15 Read More
Adam Liptak reported on a study that found the way race factors into the death penalty in Harris County, Texas. This is important because Harris County (where Houston in located) puts more people to death than any other state in the U.S. (besides Texas, of course). So what did the study find? Well, besides echoing Read More
The way crime is prosecuted in America is inextricably linked to race and class. Yeah, yeah. Everyone knows that, right? But it bears repeating for the myopic ‘personal responsibility’ reactionaries: two new reports say black men are more likely to be arrested and convicted on drug offenses even though white and black people use drugs Read More
Peep the cutaways. Hilarity. Every time I watch this, I’m more amazed that she agreed to do it.
Every Monday that goes by, we slide deeper in deeper into our post-Wire withdrawal. Maybe one day we’ll eventually be invited out of the basement of our despair and allowed a seat at our sister’s dinner table. But I wouldn’t count on it. Anyway, Tristan Wilds — who will forever be known to us as Read More
(No horn-toot-o.) Oprah threw her endorsement behind behind Barack Obama, and her ironclad popularity has taken a dip for doing so, according to Marjorie Valbrun over at The Root.
W.E.B. DuBois We’ve got news. There is no Talented Tenth. Or at least, not in the way it is popularly imagined. We know that this comes as a surprise to the many African Americans who believe that the primary purpose for becoming educated is to lord it over others under the guise of “giving back.” Read More
dNa weighs in: What people want is not for Obama to denounce Wright, but to denounce black people everywhere who have the gall to be angry at America for how they are and have been treated. What they wanted Obama to say was that racism is uneqivocally a black problem, that white people have moved Read More
