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California recall hopeful Larry Elder says there's a reason his candidacy has been targeted by media outlets: They fear the Black Republican will break the left's grip on minority voters.
YONELA DIKO: Are these the architects of the new ANC Youth League? OPINION The newly appointed, all women-led African National Congress National Youth League task team is full of promise and leads us to impose on them a question whether they are finally the true architects of a new ANC Youth League, different from the past task teams appointed since 2013 and certainly different from the past youth league, which measured its core relevance through antagonistic prisms with the mother body. This is an interim body with the primary responsibility being to prepare youth league structures for their...
In a photo from 2001, students against affirmative action, right, are confronted by another group for affirmative action during the Day of Action to Reverse the Ban on Affirmative Action rally at the University of California-Berkeley [File: AP photo/Jakub Mosur] Like many Americans on election night in November 2020, I nervously awaited the results of the presidential contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But I had an additional reason to be anxious. In my home state of California, voters were given the opportunity to reauthorise the use of affirmative action in state governmental insti...
Mr. Custred, 82, attributes the success in both ballot fights to his love of diversity. “I’m an anthropologist; I love talking to different people and diverse audiences,” he said. Of course, in common academic and political jargon, “diversity” refers to attributes outside the mind and does not mean what Mr. Custred means, which is “people of different outlooks.” That difference, in Mr. Custred‘s view, also goes a long way to explaining how, in a time where the U.S. seems obsessed with race, a ballot initiative designed to favor Black Americans went down to defeat. Not everybod...
( ThyBlackMan.com) One of my favorite movies of all-time is “Deep Cover,” starring Laurence Fishburne. The movie debuted in 1992. Fishburne plays Russell Stevens Jr., an undercover Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent. During his initial interview with the DEA, Fishburne’s character was asked: “So, Officer Stevens, tell me, do you know the difference between a Black man and a n–ger?” Fishburne’s reply was epic: “The n–ger’s the one that would even answer that question.” Likewise, I have a similar question for Black Republicans: Do you know the difference between the “r...