Jack & Jill Politics

Hey Fam,

We’re back on News & Notes this Wednesday. As always, I’d love to know what you’d love the blogger roundtable to talk about. This week’s guests include yours truly, Debra Dickerson of http://www.thelastplantation.com/ and blogs for “Mother Jones” and Desmond Burton of http://www.afronerd.blogspot.com/

Here’s what I’ve had in mind…

Some posts from Jack & Jill Politics over the past week

The Right Discovers The Jena Six
http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/10/right-discovers-jena-six.html

Genarlow Wilson Freed — Justice Served
http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/10/genarlow-wilson-freed-justice-served.html

Stanley O’Neal out at Merrill Lynch
http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/10/stanley-oneal-out-at-merrill-lynch.html

GOP Bails on CBC/Fox News Debate – Surprised? NOT!
http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/10/gop-bails-on-cbcfox-news-debate.html

The Sharpton Debate
http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/10/sharpton-debate.html

We Still Live in an Era of Black “Firsts”
http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/11/we-still-live-in-era-of-black.html

Other ideas

No story on this, but a concept in my head related to a Dem debate question last week: what responsibility do citizens and the government have to intelligently zone so we don’t have people living in disaster-prone areas? New Orleans / Katrina vs. San Diego / fires vs. Atlanta / drought. These all represent cases of “development” going way to far and pushing up against the limits of (or in some cases provoking) the surrounding ecology

All top elected positions in Baltimore held by black women
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2951571620071030

Uganda: M7 Meets African American Legislators
http://allafrica.com/stories/200711030015.html
“President Yoweri Museveni has appealed to black-american legislators to support the African development cause by supporting pro-African policies and programmes in the US Congress.”