The Eisenhower Foundation had an excellent forum on poverty, inequality and race recently. I caught it on C-SPAN and was basically pleased.
The Foundation has the video online , parsed into nice, presenter-sized packets. I saw one in particular I thought it would be good to share; I thought it would be good to watch while holding both What Black Men Think (with the goddamn autoplay music on the goddamn MySpace page) and Orlando Patterson's latest in mind. I'm using my video because I think it's of better quality. First the documentation, then the explanation.
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gilens may be the only
gilens may be the only (white) leftist hardcore experimental political scientist in the discipline. he wrote another article about how big media newspapers were less likely to report on the telecommunications act...and another about how poorer citizens were more often than not ignored as far as policy responsiveness. the piece above is taken from his work WHY AMERICANS HATE WELFARE.
I Find It
interesting that the professor identifies these obfuscators, embellishers, misleaders and misdirectors as "well-meaning" journalists...there is, I believe, an infinite capacity to detect well-meaning among white supremacists, their apologists and their critics. It's a tremendous thing. You're well-meaning, I'm well-meaning...we're all well-meaning. KnowwhatImean?
I'll give them well meaning.
I'll give them well meaning. But they still need a wheel alignment...they still drift to the right...and they're still responsible if they have a problem because they never got the alignment done.