Posted on 21 January 2011. Tags: China, Discrimination, Globalization, Greed, Labor Rights, michelle obama, Middle Class, Obesity, Poverty, Slave Labor, The Waltons, Wal-Mart, Women's Rights
We have an affliction that really undermines a decent society. It’s a tendency to want to ignore inconvenient facts, either explicitly or because we are encouraged to look quite narrowly and myopically at a problem. Which brings me to Wal-Mart’s new attempt to whitewash its practices, using the First Lady as a prop. We […]
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Posted on 06 June 2008. Tags: african american firsts, africanamericans.com, Ashley Parker, dap, fist bump, michelle obama, Obama, obama bump, obama dap, obama fist, obama fist bump, obama fist pound, obama fist pump Barack Obama, obama pound, PBS, Politics, pound, Reggie Love, the obama pound
The Obama pound, exchanged between Michelle and Barack on Tuesday night, marked a historic moment. Yeah, there’s that whole first black nominee for president thing. But more significant, is the fact that the greeting which has been described by confused white journalists as a "fist bump," "closed-fist high-five," "a frat-tastic fist bump" and a "’Hezbollah’ […]
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