In this 2022 holiday season, we can all use a little TLC anywhere we can find it (or it finds us). This column talks about finding some solace in “Black […]
Category: Practical Politics
Professor David L. Horne is founder and executive director of PAPPEI, the Pan African Public Policy and Ethical Institute, which is a new 501(c)(3) pending community-based organization or non-governmental organization (NGO). It is the stepparent organization for the California Black Think Tank which still operates and which meets every
fourth Friday.
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The politics of America’s new “scramble” for Africa
This week, from December 12 to 15, in Washington, D.C., the Biden administration has invited 49 African heads of states, and the director of the African Union (AU), to a […]
Posted inOpinion, Practical Politics
The politics of stealth youth politics
I’m feeling good today. Like I never lost it. Didn’t slip and skid it away to age or retirement along the way. I could and probably should wait for accolades […]
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The Politics of Politics
The heat and little light of the past few weeks of the present political tournament in the USA has reminded me recently of what I do miss about teaching at […]
Posted inGovernment, National, Opinion, Practical Politics
The Politics of lying, blustering and head-faking the electorate
While we are all quite used to politicians and would-be pols stretching the truth, negatively asking leading questions about opponents, fibbing about an opponent’s real record in or out of […]
Posted inLocal, Opinion, Practical Politics
The politics of using the proper logic for the subject
I’ve wrestled seriously the past two weeks with whether to write about this issue. Here goes. ‘You can’t make racist comments unless you’re part of a racial group.’ Although scientifically, […]
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The now politics of Ye
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is back to his game of displaying public blasphemy again. We remember his rather recent clowning for Trump, or ‘playin the coon […]
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The politics of letting loose the furies of sports gambling in California
To be clear, at present, the state of California legally bans sports betting. That does not mean no one in the state bets on sports. California is a big-time sports […]
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The present politics of knowing the correct mayoral candidate
A lot of the present pollsters have mayoral candidate Karen Bass comfortably ahead in the current race to be Los Angeles’ next mayor. But a reality check reminds us clearly […]
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The politics of fighting on, even after they say the fight’s over
In 2018, noted Black author Zora Neale Hurston’s last book, “Barracoon,” originally published in 1927, was re-published. It was an anthropological study of the last slave cargo illegally brought […]
