Category: Commentary

“We have a President that is Hell bent on war,” said Rev. Al Sharpton. “I think the President is determined to go to war no matter what.” Only one other Democratic presidential hopeful comes even close to speaking the unadorned truth about Bush’s warlust – and nobody knows his name. (It’s Howard Dean, the former…

Send in the Clowns: The GOP’s two-ring Black “outreach” circus To the outside observer, the Republican Party may seem to have no coherent plan for Black America. Actually, the GOP has two game plans. One is a farcical show of “inclusion” through appointments and hiring, a petty cash and publicity diversion designed to have no…

Our readers seem to have made a collective resolution to write more letters to in the New Year. They have succeeded in creating a column that is chock-a-block with opinion and wit, well worth the visit. Last week’s lead commentary, “Condoleezza Rice: The Devil’s Handmaiden,” stirred a pot that we believe has long been too…

The anti-war coalition A.N.S.W.E.R. is rallying its African American troops, heavily represented on the speakers’ platform at the huge demonstration in Washington, January 18, but far less visible in the ranks. In an “Open Letter to the Black Community,” A.N.S.W.E.R.’s Black contingent encouraged community organizations to transform Black History Month into a Black Protest for…

When it comes, the U.S. assault on Iraq will explode as global spectacle, an awesome pyrotechnic display of rolling thunder and lightening death intended to shock and cow the entire planet. The effect, the planners fervently believe, will be comparable to that which occurred when cannon clashed with spears and arrows on the ever-expanding frontiers…

If the U.S. were a healthy parliamentary democracy, Donald Rumsfeld’s remarks of January 7 would have brought down George Bush’s government, necessitating new elections. Instead, the man with the demonic grin continues as the drum major for new foreign wars, even as he belittles a previous war’s dead. Conscript soldiers of years past added “no…

The unreconstructed racists at the helm of the Republican Party have elevated the most widely despised Black man in the nation as their principle African American political spokesman. Armstrong Williams, the raving reactionary whose opinions are shared by no significant segment of Black America, has positioned himself as the GOP’s Director of Black Personnel, the…

The A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition is serious about creating a genuinely multi-racial movement against the pirates who control the U.S. government. Of the 30 or so speakers that addressed hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters in Washington, January 18, at least 17 were African Americans. Native-born whites were a distinct minority on the microphone, also sharing the…

A little over a year ago, a junior at Lee High School in Huntsville, AL, acknowledged her anger and decided she wasn’t going to take it any more. She was tired of hearing the “n” word – that is, “nigger” – used to describe blacks by her white schoolmates. An accomplished poet, Kohl Fallin struck…

Noah thought he had it bad. For 41 days and 41 nights, the Republican Party rained down racial obscenity upon Black America, beginning with Trent Lott’s December 5 birthday greeting to Strom Thurmond and climaxing on Martin Luther King’s birthday, January 15, when George Bush declared the University of Michigan law school’s affirmative action program…