New Orleans The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is trying to do something about the continuing polarization of our communities by race, class, and ethnicity, so let’s give them some credit for that. In a new rule last year they tried to put some teeth in the Fair Housing Act of 1968, by …
Category: DC Politics
Republicans Dilemma: Can Fear and Hate Alone Win an Election?
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wadesworldjuly22.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Having just returned from euro-world, I have to admit that I was surprised I wasn’t asked more questions about Donald Trump. During George W’s time, the questions were endless and strident. War does that to people. Folks brought up Trump for sure, but mostly with …
Thank You White People for Electing Obama in 2012!
New Orleans In the age of big data, one of the clear lessons, is that we need to be very, very careful about what we think we know, at least until we have asked all the right questions rather than just swallowing the headlines whole without examining the bottom lines. What am I talking about, …