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- Ernest Hardy
- My work has appeared in LA Weekly, LA Times, NY Times, Vibe, Rolling Stone, Millennium Film Journal, Flaunt, and more. I contributed to the reference books "1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" and "Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide," and have written liner notes for "Chuck D Presents: Louder Than a Bomb;" box-set "Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America," as well as anthologies by Curtis Mayfield, Chet Baker, Luther Vandross, the Jacksons and Teddy Pendergrass. A Sundance Fellow, I've sat as a juror for the Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Los Angeles Outfest, and co-programmed the FUSION Film Festival in LA. Blood Beats Vol. 1, my collection of criticism (interviews / reviews / essays), was published by Red Bone Press in April 2006; it won the PEN/Beyond Margins award in 2007. Blood Beats Vol. 2 was published February 2008. I'm co-editor of the literary anthology War Diaries, which will be published by APLA in summer 2009. I've lectured or appeared on panels at Princeton, Columbia, DePaul, USC and more.
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Does anyone else find it a little creepy that all RT's correspondents seem to be young, cute and female? There are no good Russian correspondents who aren't young, or aren't cute or aren't female?
Klein is right on in many ways, but I think she paints a little bit too rosy a picture of Obama. Yes it's true that Obama called for the left to pressure him once, to pull him towards progressive policy, but on this as on so many other things, he spoke out both sides of his mouth. He also made it very clear, by his own words and through surrogates like Biden and through his cabinet choices, and through the Democratic Party machine, that he was very uncomfortable with lefty pressure, and that his main concern was with pressure from the right. He's much more interested in responding to the right than to the left.
As I see it, the way the political system works in the US is premised on one key factor - the poor and near poor are progressively marginalized from the political process. If this were to change, the political calculus that makes it easy for the Obamas of the world to move ever rightward as they seek to consolidate power would change. But that's the only way it will change.
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