Sunday Night Video – Melissa Harris-Perry on the President Obama / Professor Bell Controversy

March 11, 2012 by 3 Comments

On her MSNBC show yesterday, Melissa Harris-Perry addressed what she correctly called a “manufactured controversy” that has “erupted around an extraordinary legal scholar.” As Harris-Perry points out,

Professor [Derrick] Bell spent his career questioning and critiquing the institutional racism that infects America’s legal structures.

I definitely agree with Harris-Perry that the Fox and their friends are attacking President Obama for being around black people.

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Four Praises for Rachel Maddow

March 5, 2012 by 18 Comments

Why do I love Rachel Maddow? Let me count the ways…

English: Rachel Maddow in Seattle.

Image via Wikipedia

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Melissa Harris-Perry on the Choice of Motherhood

March 4, 2012 by 2 Comments

The most recent push by the right-wing to limit birth control and to force unwanted medical procedures on women seeking abortions reminds me of how much I dislike the term “pro-life”, because most of the people in that movement are not. They presume that life begins at conception, but their commitment is selective, fading quickly when it comes to anything other than preventing women from making decisions about whether or not to bear children.

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Melissa Harris-Perry on The Help

February 26, 2012 by Leave a comment

Okay, so I haven’t actually seen The Help, but that’s not going to hold me back from posting this clip of Melissa Harris-Perry discussing the movie! The reason why I didn’t go to see the film was because I have a slight aversion to that trope of Civil Rights movies bending over backwards to show the deep humanity of white people. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking white people — somebody make sure that we white people get to star in some movies, already! — and we should definitely remember and honor those who help expose racism, but why is empathy for whites such a crucial focus for many Hollywood films about race? Who’s at the center here?

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Thursday Night Video – Melissa Harris-Perry does Colbert

January 12, 2012 by 1 Comment

A friend posted this on her Facebook wall. I love Melissa Harris-Perry. Spot-on with her politics, crystal-sharp eloquence, and I always come away smarter — which is pretty impressive on her part.

Harris-Perry recently visited The Colbert Report.

Video after the jump

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