March 19th 2008 — Text + Video — Leave a Comment
On Tuesday, March 18, Obama gave the speech above (full text) and it’s set the internet(s) ablaze with conversation. Imaginably, that is entirely what he intended.
It is an important speech. Some call it the most important speech on the state of politics, race, and class in the United States in decades.
Glenn Greenwald [...]
October 29th 2007 — Text — Leave a Comment
[Currently listening to: Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible"]
A New Yorker article, “A Paler Shade of White, How indie rock lost its soul,” was inspired by an Arcade Fire concert earlier this year. The writer, Sasha Frere-Jones, noted in the concert what she believed to be a wider phenomenon: a racial re-sorting of “rock and roll” music.
Sasha [...]