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Why Obama matters to all of us, everywhere

5 November 2008

Four Fingers and a Thumb
On a hot day in a school in Laventille, I am reasoning with a student. This beautiful young woman of 17 years or so. I say to her, what do you want to be? She laughs and says a stripper.
Her classmates laugh too, because to them it is a joke, [...]

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Obama, Elections, History

4 November 2008

I’m in New York City this week. I’m in New York today. It’s part of a regular pilgrimage we make to the city every year if we can make it; above all, my husband’s a theatre director, and this is part of his investment in his career, this is part of his own research. Since [...]

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Tim Wise: Your Whiteness is Showing

12 June 2008

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 supposedly because of their commitment to feminism, are threatening to withhold [...]

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A Post about America

3 June 2008

Now.
Let me say that, unlike many of my countrymen, I’m not addicted to the American election. Put very simply, I am not American. The Obama/Hilary competition is more important to my mind for its symbolic value than for anything that it means to me as a Bahamian.
For one thing, I don’t think for one [...]

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