Blog Posts for Robert Jensen

Is Obama a socialist? Reflections on the degradation of politics and the ecosystem

Robert Jensen — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:06:14 -0700

[This is an expanded version of a talk given to the University Democrats student group at the University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2009.] For months, leftists have been pointing out the absurdity of the claim that Barack Obama is a socialist. But no matter how laughable, the claim keeps popping up, most recently in the form of the Republican Party chairman’s warning of “a ...

An inspirational political life captured on film

Robert Jensen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:48:18 -0700

A review by historian Barbara Berg of the film "Abe Osheroff: One Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing" is at http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/22542.The film is distributed by the Media Education Foundation. http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=141For more information, http://thirdcoastactivist.org/osheroff.html.

Teachable moments require willing learners

Robert Jensen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:14:09 -0700

Honoring President Obama’s request that the controversy involving a black Harvard University professor and a white Cambridge police officer become “a teachable moment,” here’s my contribution to an old lesson that we white people tend to be slow to learn.In lectures about the United States’ system of white supremacy and the privileges that white people have in that system, I have ...