WeblogBahamas thinks the late Tim Russert's advice to his college-bound son should be adopted by Bahamians, especially the part about not cultivating a sense of entitlement.
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Cuban blogger Ninety miles away…in another country, Adrian Gibson at Weblog Bahamas and Living in Barbados acknowledge the passing of American journalist Tim Russert.
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Tim Wise: Your Whiteness is Showing
I’m sure that others have linked to this before me, and I’m coming late to the party, but –
it’s fun.
And rings true.
See for yourself.
This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and su...
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Janine Mendes Franco
· 5:06 pm
· Bahamas · Barbados · Cuba · Dominica · Puerto Rico (U.S.) · St. Vincent & the Grenadines · Trinidad & Tobago
Barack Obama has secured the Democratic Party's nomination. Caribbean bloggers were online with immediate reactions to the history-making news that a black man actually has a chance of winning the race to the White House.
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Larry Smith at Bahama Pundit weighs in on this and that, saying that “Food self-sufficiency for the Bahamas is an illusion” and that “The American presidential election is…the most interesting presidential race in memory.”
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Warren Buffett endorses ObamaWarren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barack Obama in the White House race, as he tells CNN's Becky Anderson....
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Democracy Now! | Race and Gender in Presidential Politics: A Debate Between Gloria Steinem and Melissa Harris-Lacewell
MELISSA HARRIS-LACEWELL: And so, to pretend that we can somehow take [race and gender] out of the conversation when a white woman runs against a black man, when she tears up at bein...
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Visual diversity means little.
The white man has convinced us, and some of their own no doubt, that they are a homogenous group. Believe me, if black people did not exist in the world, white people would get on with the far more important work of killing other white people. However, since we do exi...
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Democracy Now! | Barack Obama and the African American Community: A Debate with Michael Eric Dyson and Glen Ford:
The above link will take you to an excellent debate on DemocracyNOW concerning the impact of Barack Obama and the implications of an Obama presidency on black people.
I especia...
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