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Paul Street
Bernie, Black, and Blue: Reflections on Race in the Democratic Primaries
16 Mar 2016
by Paul Street If Black people are the most left-leaning constituency in the United States, why have they been voting for right-wing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the primaries? It is true that Bernie…
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“All Lives Matter”: More Stupid White Noise
09 Mar 2016
by Paul Street Mountains of statistics testify to the national disregard for Black lives. But white supremacists fire back that Blacks have “brought it on themselves” and victimize their own people…
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A Sacrificial Rahm? Mayor 1%, Racist Policing, and Metropolitan Disorder
22 Dec 2015
by Paul Street Black Chicago is fired up – which means that Corporate Chicago may be in a mood to fire Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whom they trusted to “keep ghetto residents pacified.” Protesters ruined…
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What Color is Your T-Shirt? Race, Class, Empire, and White Democrats in a Liberal Campus Town
23 Sep 2015
by Paul Street Bernie Sanders is beloved among the “white middle class campus town progressive Democrats” in places like Iowa City, Iowa, who live quite different lives than the largely Sudanese and…
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Why Bernie Sanders is No Great White Hope for Black America
19 Aug 2015
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Posing as the Great Emancipator: Obama’s Prison-Posturing is Nothing New
12 Aug 2015
by Paul Street President Obama likes to give the impression that he is shocked and surprised by the horrors of the U.S. penal system. But the author knew the president back in the day, in Chicago,…
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Bernie Sanders’ Top Five Race Problems: The Unbearable Whiteness of Nominal Nordic Socialism
04 Aug 2015
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Bernie Out of the Closet: Sanders’ Longstanding Deal with the Democrats
22 Jul 2015
by Paul Street Bernie may call himself a socialist, but since his terms as mayor of Burlington VT in the 1980s, the state's Democrats have never run anybody against him. In return "socialist" Bernie…
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False Flag Change: History, the Confederate Flag, Obama and the Deeper American Racism
15 Jul 2015
by Paul Street The Confederate flag comes down at the capital of South Carolina, and smug white smiles go up all over America. “Meanwhile,” writes the author, “savage racial disparities persist and…
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How Poor Black Lives Matter to U.S. Capitalism Today: Reflections on “The New Jim Crow”
01 Jul 2015
by Paul Street The U.S. mass incarceration regime measures Black lives by the value that can be derived from their imprisonment. “The ‘new Jim Crow’ is about disciplining a deindustrialized Black…