Dr. Dele Olajide, a leading psychologist at King’s College London, blames consumer demand on the media centering on fair skinned blacks like American pop singer Beyonce and British actress Thandie Newton.
“The image that the media presents about black people is that we are inferior, we are not as good as everybody else. But those who are successful and going places are those who are light-skinned people. So one might say that the desire to be like white people underpins people’s wanting to be fairer-skinned,” Olajide says.
WordPress database error: [Access denied for user: 'dbo202357768@%' to database 'db202357768'] INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('58', 'http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/11/26/i-want-a-turd-for-this-punchbowl/', 'I Want a Turd for This Punchbowl', '<p>Obama is building an economic dream team around Treasury nominee Tim Geithner that makes use of such marquee talents as Robert Rubin, Paul Volker, Larry Summers, to say nothing of Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee.</p> <p>You wanted Best and Brightest with an establishment bent? You got it.</p> <p>But given that so many of these smartest-guys-in-the-room types have their fingerprints on the current financial crisis, what’s missing is a crusading, ball-busting reformer in the pre-hookergate Elliot Spitzer model. </p> <p>I buy the argument that you need the kind of insidery A-Team Obama has assembled to try to bring the economy down in something other than a crash landing, and that the time for ballbusting reform is down the line.</p> <p>My worry, however, is that there’s no one in the room to strike the fear of God into Wall Street execs — to scare them into walking a straighter, narrower line now that taxpayers are on the hook for, oh, three-to-five trillion in bad bets. </p> <p>With the feds bailing out everyone in sight, we’ve created an off-the-charts moral hazard that could compound this crisis. Who, I want to know, is the guy tasked with looking around the corner and stopping the fat cats before they fuck us again? </p> ', '1228164196', '1228164196', '2008-12-01')
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WordPress database error: [Access denied for user: 'dbo202357768@%' to database 'db202357768'] INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('58', 'http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/11/24/obamas-cabinet-picks/', 'Obama’s Cabinet Picks', '<p>I was on NPR’s San Francisco affiliate on Friday discussing Obama’s cabinet picks.</p> <p>My top point: The Clinton and Daschle picks have to be seen in concert. Sending Hillary to Foggy Bottom clears out a competing center of power from the Senate. It also sets up Tom Daschle, the former Senate Majority Leader, to become the most powerful Health and Human Services secretary ever. </p> <p>Daschle, who still retains a powerbase of his own in the Senate, will now be free to steward the drive toward universal healthcare — without all of the psychodrama of the Hillarycare fiasco. </p> <p>The Clinton State Department appointment is not without its fallbacks. As we’ve seen in the hemming and hawing over her accepting the post, there is little that Hillary touches that doesn’t become imbued with high theatrics. Her knack for turning a simple yes-or-no question into a week-long drama is in itself a cautionary tale. </p> <p>But I think State is the best place to take advantage of the Clintons, plural. Hillary is clearly not intimidated by anyone. And she’ll likely bring Bill in tow wherever she goes. She’ll be able to tap into his experience. And he’ll be serving in the role to which he’s currently best suited: Acting as America’s roving goodwill ambassador. </p> <p>Both picks reflect canny poiltics on Obama’s part, but politics that work in the service of aggressive policy ends — on both the domestic and international front. </p> <p>More thoughts on Holder, Napolitano, and the Axelrod echo chamber here:</p> <p><object width="325" height="85"><br /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf"></param> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R811210900.xml"></param><embed src="http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="325" height="85" flashvars="file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R811210900.xml"></embed></object> </p> ', '1228164196', '1228164195', '2008-12-01')
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WordPress database error: [Access denied for user: 'dbo202357768@%' to database 'db202357768'] INSERT INTO wp_bdprss_items_v3 (item_feed_id, item_url, item_name, text_body, item_update_time, item_time, item_date) VALUES ('58', 'http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/11/24/a-tale-of-two-bailouts-wall-street-v-detroit/', 'A Tale of Two Bailouts: Wall Street v. Detroit', '<p>Does anyone else find it a little head-scratching that Citi gets a $20 billion bailout over a weekend (without any plan to guarantee that we’re not going to be stuck holding a $300 billion bag if the share of the shitpile we just guaranteed doesn’t turn out to be worth a damn thing.) This after a week when Congress seemed to delight in playing chicken with Detroit, denying them a $25 billion loan and raking their executives over the coals for flying corporate jets. </p> <p>Sure, Citi is too big to fail. But psychically, for America, so are GM and Ford. I honestly believe that letting either of the big-two fail would instill the same kind of bunker mentality on Main Street that Lehman Brothers created for the global financial industry. </p> <p>See also: Naomi Klein’s <em>RS</em> story on the bailout, <a href='http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/24012700/the_new_trough' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>The New Trough</a></p> ', '1228164196', '1228164194', '2008-12-01')
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