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norman kelley

norman kelley
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Norman Kelley is an independent journalist, author, and former segment radio producer at WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio. He has written for Society, L A Weekly, The Brooklyn Rail, The Village Voice, The Nation, New York Press, Newsday, Word.com, The Black Star News, New Politics, Black Renaissance/Noir, and The Bedford Stuyvesant Current. He is also the author of the "noir soul"/ mystery series that features "Nina Halligan" in Black Heat (Amistad), The Big Mango (Akashic Books), and A Phat Death (2003). Norman Kelley was also a contributing writer to Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Books, 2004) and DC Noir (Akashic Books, 2006) and Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium (Random House 2000). He edited and contributed to R&B (Rhythm and Business): The Political Economy of Black Music (Akashic Books, 2005; 2002).

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MARCH 22, 2010 2:06PM

Politico's Kind of Affirmative Action

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We generally know how mostly white the media is, right? Of course, they love to talk about race and make an issue of it when covering the political class and the masses.

But look at Politico's program of racial and gender diversity. Isn't Politico the new breed of journalism? How really different  is it from the people it covers?

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Uppermiddle class white liberals talk the talk about social and economic egalitarianism, but they never walk the walk. If anything, their rhetoric isn't so much of a doctrine for themselves to follow, as it is a rhetorical/therapeutic palliative, to assuage the guilt they feel for living lives of privilege and sepperateness from the rest of society.
Rw005g
March 23, 2010 09:22 PM
I guess I've never seen a minority reporter from Politico on any cable network. I will say that I'm an upper middle white progressive, 59, and that RW's comment certainly does not capture me, how I live my life nor my political motivations.
Jonathan Wolfman
April 02, 2010 06:48 PM

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