Category: Commentary

“… the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” April 4, 1967 at New York City’s Riverside Church “If we don’t have boots in the Iraqi desert by spring, we have to wait till winter because of the…

George Bush’s pirates danced in the darkness with their symbiont, Osama, last week. At bin Laden’s taped invitation, the ghouls from Washington and the Wahabis staged a party to celebrate the coming Apocalypse. Condoleezza and Colin, Osama and several of his wives, bumping and grinding toward chaos. In the immediate term, bin Laden and Bush…

Up to 30 million people in 600 cities worldwide marched in opposition to U.S. war against Iraq last weekend, six million in Europe, most of them in nations ruled by governments that support Washington. Two million Spaniards – five percent of the citizenry – took to the streets, the equivalent of 15 million Americans in…

Moseley-Braun and the Game to Contain Sharpton Carolyn Moseley-Braun is doing someone a favor, but it’s not Black Democrats. The former Senator from Illinois is transparently allowing herself to be used to diminish, somehow, the impact of Rev. Al Sharpton’s candidacy for President. Since she cannot possibly “stop” Sharpton, the actual purpose and potential effect…

Note: “The Marble Jungle” is a euphemism for the layers of bureaucracy in the federal government in Washington D.C. which too frequently hide the truth. From time to time will be presenting commentaries and analysis pieces whose purpose will be to cut through the political policy rhetoric in order to focus on what is really…

Racists always overreach, living as they do in an outsized world of distortions. Thus, it was only a matter of time before Bush pressed his Black appointees to perform beyond all bounds of dignity, as occurred during the week of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday. Condoleezza Rice may still be of use to the White…

The white man in the White House has his Black operatives running up and down the streets of Washington, DC, waving millions of dollars in private school voucher money – and nobody’s taking the bribe. Mayor Anthony A. Williams says, No. Bush says, No matter. The city school board says, No. The White House doesn’t…

Colin Powell couldn’t contain himself. Osama bin Laden was back in touch. As Powell rushed past the press on his way to a congressional hearing, he paused to advise CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to be sure to pay attention to what bin Laden had to say. It’s important, Powell intimated. Then he was off to the…

Slavery was cradle to grave – without even the comfort of a cradle for Black children. After Emancipation, Jim Crow systematically perpetuated inferior Black status, relentlessly channeling Black youth to the lowest rungs of the social ladder through de jure and de facto school segregation. In his classic 1991 book, “Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s…

The electronic wonders of the Internet allow us to declare with finality that Khalil Bendib’s January 30 cartoon “The Devil’s Handmaiden” is his most popular work to date on . Bendib’s depiction of Condeleezza Rice’s climb up the ladder of success, only to reject the mechanisms of minority upward mobility once they had served her…