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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... Booker Rising response : Clearly not possessing a background in political science, Mr. Crouch has no sense of historical perspective in the media's treatment of politicians over time. Today's media is very, very mild compared to what Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or Harry Truman went through. Heck, it's mild compared to what his predecessor George W. Bush went through. President Obama...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The moderate columnist writes about Roman Polanski : "Some things are forgivable, others are not. Some are so deep that they transcend time, which only the naive believe heals all wounds. For instance, filmmaker Roman Polanski has not written an opinion forgiving Charles Manson for the murders of his wife, the actress Sharon Tate, and their unborn child in 1969. When one of those captured, Susan...
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TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... Eric Dyson is a brilliant commentator on hip hop, but will focus on artists he likes and defends. Stanley Crouch, though a critic I find much to admire in, is a curmudgeon on the matter and considers the lot of rappers to be fakes and opportunists. The judgement isn't reliable , say, to tell us what is actually in the music under review.That's fine, but there is a lack of on the part...
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swirlspice (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
As we say in Minnesota, oh fer cute. Originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream. President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, sit for a family portrait in the Green Room of the White House, Sept. 1, 2009. (Official White House Photo) Photo by Annie Leibovitz/Released by White House Photo Office This [...] Related posts: “Stanley...
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Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
John McWhorter proposes some changes to African-American Studies . An excerpt: However, equally central to honest engagement with "black thought" are modern figures often considered controversial by the campus set, such as Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Debra Dickerson, and Stanley Crouch. (I will refrain from putting myself on this list, but will mention that...
