Monday Roundup
By RP Staff | July 14, 2008
Racialious directs our attention to this post by Maria Niles, “Is Black The New Bitch” explores intersections of racism and sexism, or racialized sexism, during this year’s election campaign. Niles uses Jesses Jackson’s recent comments about Obama as an entry point for her examination. Jump Here
Invisibleblog’s Clyde Hughes has an interesting post entitled “Obama Presents A Unique Opportunity to Talk About Race.” While no longer provocative, Hughes’s reasoning in this essay reads well alongside Niles’s elaborate meditation on racialized sexism. In other words, as Hughes’s piece suggests, Obama’s success shifts the discussion whether we will talk about race, to rather how will we talk about race. Jump Here
Politico’s Ben Adler has an article discussing the irony that it is the candidate often lauded for his year’s of service, John McCain, who has yet to come up with a national service plan. Jump Here
Writing in today’s NYTimes, Barack Obama outlines his plan for Iraq. Obama’s plan offers a strategy for withdrawal, while also maintaining a presence that will not allow work done by American and Iraqi soldies in Iraq over the last five years to quickly unravel. His plan also calls for providing enough troop support to statilize efforts in Afghanistan. Jump Here
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