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michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Obama and Duncan’s “Race to the Top”
19 Aug 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are sold on charter schools and so-called “public-private partnerships.” In order to impose their…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Gates Busted by Officer Jim Crowlaw, uh, James Crowley
28 Jul 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez President Obama is so averse to calling racism by its name, he sometimes makes himself sound less than intelligent – such as when he called a policeman “stupid…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Dr. Wertham was right
21 Jul 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez If life imitates art, political life in the USA mimics comic books. “Gotham City looked to the Grim Avenger and Boy Wonder Robin, the United States looks to the…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Field days for gumbo ya ya
19 Nov 2008
by BAR columnist michael hureaux When a Black teenager accidentally shoots his best friend, it is "all just one more weekend, one of those lunatic moments when one young Black man kills another…
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Eshu’s Blues: charter schools and the rest of us
22 Oct 2008
by michael hureaux John McCain and Barack Obama "share the same market nostrums for education reform, from charter schools to merit pay to the test mania of No Child Left Behind," but have no…
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Eshu’s Blues: We Are the People With Boxes On Our Heads
15 Oct 2008
by BAR columnist michael hureaux Racist mob talk is once again heard in the land. "They were chanting ‘Kill him!' whenever Obama's name was mentioned the other day at a rally where Governor…