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Wellstone: The Best of Them All

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

If Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone had been an African American, Black America would be in deepest mourning – and for far more than symbolic reasons. In terms of supporting Black interests, Wellstone may have been the best lawmaker the U.S. Senate has produced since abolitionist Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, who was beaten to within an…

If Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone had been an African American, Black America would be in deepest mourning - and for far more than symbolic reasons. In…

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Briefs

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

We recoil with horror at the inconsistency of a supposedly ‘free’ society where responsibility to freedom is equated with the responsibility to lend oneself to military aggression. We take note of the fact that 16 per cent of the draftees of this country are Negroes called on to stifle the liberation of Viet Nam, to…

We recoil with horror at the inconsistency of a supposedly 'free' society where responsibility to freedom is equated with the responsibility to lend oneself to military…

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e-Mail

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Your publication, which stimulates analytical and critical thinking, is performing a great service and it achieves excellence in its highest forms. Please be encouraged and keep up the good work. Dr. Holloway is Director of the Humanities Program at Hampton. Keep writing. Analysis The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Bogus Election “Study” Black Majette vote grossly inflated, analysis…

Your publication, which stimulates analytical and critical thinking, is performing a great service and it achieves excellence in its highest forms. Please be encouraged and keep…

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Commentary

Permanent War

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

George Bush has embarked on a strategy of permanent war abroad. The inevitable result will be a permanent state of emergency within the borders of the United States. There is no possibility of separating the two. And permanent domestic emergency will certainly mean a permanent state of siege for Black America, the permanent domestic enemy.…

George Bush has embarked on a strategy of permanent war abroad. The inevitable result will be a permanent state of emergency within the borders of the…

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Trojan Horse Watch

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

BET billionaire Bob Johnson’s Social Security privatization message is reaching millions of Black radio listeners through at least two GOP and associated far right advertising campaigns worth $2.5 million. The larger of the buys is funded by a Hard Right group associated with white, Christian evangelicals. As we explored in our October 3 issue (BET’s…

BET billionaire Bob Johnson's Social Security privatization message is reaching millions of Black radio listeners through at least two GOP and associated far right advertising campaigns…

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Briefs

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The Four Eunuchs of War History will render its immutable judgment on U.S. Representatives Harold Ford, Jr., William Jefferson, Albert Wynn and Sanford Bishop. These men are like the Sultan’s eunuchs, for whom submission is a trait of character; the mere presence of Power dominates them, completely. They bowed to George Bush’s declaration of permanent,…

The Four Eunuchs of War History will render its immutable judgment on U.S. Representatives Harold Ford, Jr., William Jefferson, Albert Wynn and Sanford Bishop. These men…

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Guest Commentary

Iraq, War & Color Racism

By Dr. David Graham Du Bois Guest Commentator

I am convinced that resistance to color racism will grow as will the rejection of the idea that there are inherently superior and inferior peoples on this globe. My fear is that this may not be that moment. My hope and my conviction is, that moment will come. Permanent War: Permanent State of Emergency Trojan…

I am convinced that resistance to color racism will grow as will the rejection of the idea that there are inherently superior and inferior peoples on…

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E-Mailbox Issue 14

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The National Security Adviser, Dr. Rice, is wholly unrepresentative of the feelings in the community. I was aghast when she received the NAACP Image Award recently. Even worse is the silence of the NAACP in face of the targeted attacks against African-American Congressional Representatives like Ms. Cynthia McKinney and Mr. Earl Hilliard. NAACP officials we…

The National Security Adviser, Dr. Rice, is wholly unrepresentative of the feelings in the community. I was aghast when she received the NAACP Image Award recently.…

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A Jewish Peace Activist on Baraka’s Poem

By Rachael Kamel

The writer is a founding member of the Jewish Mobilization for a Just Peace, a grassroots organization in Philadelphia. Last year, not long after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, I overheard two well-dressed businessmen talking in the streets of Philadelphia. “Oh yes,” one of them told the other. “All of the…

The writer is a founding member of the Jewish Mobilization for a Just Peace, a grassroots organization in Philadelphia. Last year, not long after the September…

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