A black bourgeoisie perspective on U.S. politics
Radio Open Source is a hot and innovative show. I was a guest on it a number of times when it was part of WGBH in Boston. Thought yall might dig this episode. h/t Dan Patterson
Adam Bradley is talking about the President of Flow — about how 30 years of hip-hop (”the most widely disseminated poetry in the history of the world”) laid down the rhyme-and-rhythm track for the Age of Obama. Add this to the open-source mix of Obama ingredients, along with the “black prophetic tradition” of church and civil-rights history:
via Open Source » Blog Archive » Obama & Hip Hop: The Transracial Drumbeat.
Cheryl Contee aka "Jill Tubman", Baratunde Thurston aka "Jack Turner", rikyrah, Leutisha Stills aka "The Christian Progressive Liberal", B-Serious, Casey Gane-McCalla, Jonathan Pitts-Wiley aka "Marcus Toussaint," Fredric Mitchell
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