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For-Profit Colleges: Preying on Black Ambition?
In a Salon piece, Kai Wright explains why we all need to take a look at the economic structures that are causing degree-seeking students to take on a boatload of student-loan debt. He argues that the wealth for-profit universities are amassing at the expense of black Americans is akin to the subprime-mortgage fiasco that engulfed the nation’s economy…
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The Obamas' Tough Talk to Black Grads
Kai Wright gives his take on Colorlines on the controversial angle of last weekend’s high-profile commencement addresses. Graduation season is upon us, and with it the time-honored ritual of big, important graduation speeches. This weekend, Barack and Michelle Obama each gave theirs at historically black colleges — the president spoke at Morehouse, the first lady…
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What the Health Care Ruling Means for People of Color
ColorLines‘ Kai Wright says that the Affordable Care Act recognizes that a system that ignored the needs of 50 million people would have collapsed upon itself — and he points out that many of the ignored were members of ethnic minority groups. The Supreme Court ruled this morning that President Obama’s health care reform can…
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There Are Lies, Damned Lies and Andrew Breitbart
ColorLines editor Kai Wright takes a hard look at Andrew Breitbart’s so-called last hurrah, which was supposed to create another Jeremiah Wright scandal for President Obama. Instead, it only made people speak ill of the dead — Breitbart himself. From his grave, Andrew Breitbart threw one last (hopefully) stink bomb into the public square this…
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Time to Stop Foreclosure-Fraud Blame Game
ColorLines editor Kai Wright uses an Eddie Murphy sketch to demonstrate how the $26 billion foreclosure settlement with five of the nation’s largest banks essentially lets them off the hook. He says it’s time for Wall Street to take responsibility for the crisis. An old Eddie Murphy bit, made famous in his raunchy 1980s album…
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A Bronx Tale: How Racism Created and Perpetuates Poverty
ColorLines editor Kai Wright takes a hard look at 2010 census figures showing that nearly 28 percent of families live below the federal poverty line in the Bronx, N.Y. In a piece that originally appeared in the Nation, he says that the situation was created by failed economic and political decisions that were made decades…
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Is President Obama's Jobs Drumbeat Working?
In a blog entry at ColorLines, editor Kai Wright discusses a post at Talking Points Memo that concludes that President Barack Obama has shifted the focus of the debate in Washington from deficit reduction to job creation. Wright says the evidence shows that the presidency is a powerful bully pulpit that can be used to…
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It's President Obama Who Should 'Stop Complaining'
In a blog entry at ColorLines, editor Kai Wright responds to President Obama’s curious remarks to the Congressional Black Caucus, urging members to take off their “bedroom slippers” and “to put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do,…
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Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
