Kai's Articles
Jimmy Carter, True Son of the South, Hits Nail on Head
The White House’s fear of challenging the tea-bag madness is typical of its cautious politics. The rest of us accept it at our peril.
10 Reasons African Americans Should March on Washington About Health Care
August should have been marked by black rage at the status quo—rather than white paranoia about change.
Semenya's Race and Sex Struggle
Caster Semenya’s humanity has already been sacrificed to Western culture’s desperate, frightened effort to maintain the fiction of binary, fixed gender.
The Birthers and Jim Crow 2.0
The manufactured anger driving the birthers and health care town brawls is the same white rage that has divided poor white people from poor black people for all of our history.
Health Care Reform: The Beach-Reader Edition
A midsummer status report on the big debate boiled down to the bare essentials.
Letting Science Lead, Again
Needle-exchange programs are efficient, cost-effective means for HIV/AIDS prevention. Will a controversial, 21-year-old ban stand in the way?
The Obama Doctrine: Racism’s Real; Deal With It
The first black president tells the NAACP that they control their own futures.
Bending Toward Justice
It's not the most exciting message. But Ben Jealous is right. The NAACP's task in the 21st century is to turn racial equality into racial justice.
To the Michael in All of Us
The King of Pop could not distinguish between self-definition and self-mutilation, but we've all had those moments. His problem was a matter of scale.
The Patriot Act
Last year, I was the proudest of Americans. This year, not so much.
