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”The same politicians who looked over the Democratic field and decided that Senator Empty Suit was going to be the savior of the party are now blaming gay marriage for the loss. They have said nothing about electronic voting irregularities in Ohio and Florida that disenfranchised their most loyal voters. They have said nothing about the system of electoral racial separation that condemns black voters to use punch card ‘hanging chad’ machines and provisional ballots that aren’t counted.”

Ms. Kimberley cuts no slack. Nor should any of us. White people are determined to choose our leaders. At Harvard, the leadership factory, a committee of white men decided that a know-nothing, twenty something Black man would be our next leader. His only credentials were that he bad-mouthed Black society. That seems to please Harvard. So Roland Fryer became the Black flavor of the month, according to the New York Times Magazine. Margaret Kimberly wasn’t having it, as she explained, in a March 31, 2005 column, “Self Hatred at Harvard”:

Apparently, we don’t do better, because we don’t please white people. Or more accurately, we don’t please white people ensconced in corporate offices. The kind of white people who give money to Harvard, to pay for those racist professors who chose Fryer as our next leader.

The pharmaceutical industry in the United States is a band of bandits, that have forced drug prices in the U.S. to astronomical levels. They are, literally, killing people. The Bush administration, like the Clinton administration before it, has given them a license to do so. Now the NitroMed Corporation, out of Lexington, Massachusetts, is cashing in on the high rate of Black heart disease, a condition that is directly connected to the daily harassment and oppression that is meted out to African Americans every time they step out of the door. Instead of national health insurance, they offer a pill called Bidil. Margaret Kimberly was outraged:

Ms. Kimberley takes on the powers-that-are. She is unafraid, and a heroine of The Black Commentator.

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