Category: Commentary

They have begun pulling mildly leftist white people off of airplanes. It’s time for the rest of us to get very worried. The evidence is rolling in, and it is unmistakable: the Bush people are assembling purely political lists of individuals and groups to be targeted during some future crisis, real or manufactured. The list…

“Very shortly, in order to win close races and advance a pro-working families agenda, Democrats and progressives will be forced to spend time and resources engaging the fastest growing segment of potential base voters – African Americans under age 40.” – Cornell Belcher and Donna Brazile No sooner had the polls closed November 5 than…

The Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld crowd got drunk one night and decided to play a mad joke on the world. The public had demanded, and the U.S. Congress mumbled in assent, that a commission be selected to investigate the whos, hows and whys of September 11, the secrets behind the mad bombings. So they picked the…

It is the journalist’s responsibility to bring bad news, and the political analyst’s job to explore the meaning of events. The Bush Administration, acting as a kind of clearinghouse for thieves, threatens to overload the nation’s dwindling chroniclers of political crime. Writer Cheryl Seal’s kind words for our November 21 essay, “War for Private Profit,”…

Originally published in www.YellowTimes.org, an online news/opinion publication whose mission is to offer readers unconventional viewpoints from which to observe current events, and to encourage new thinking about the causes and effects of those events. As the war storm against Iraq swirls and gathers momentum, seeded by the efforts of the American and British governments,…

African Americans remain in remarkable, consistent agreement on political issues, a shared commonality of views that holds strongly across lines of income, gender and age. The Black Commentator’s analysis of biannual data from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies confirms the vitality of a broad Black Consensus. Most importantly, the data show that…

News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble e-Mail: [email protected] VoiceMail: 856.823.1739 The Publishers of www.BlackCommentator.com are pleased to announce that the Internet publication is now published weekly. BlackCommentator.com now provides commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African Americans, twice as often as before. BlackCommentator.com began as a monthly…

Harold Ford, Jr. put on a spectacle last week for the sake of his own, outsized Senatorial ambitions and to further ingratiate himself to the right wing of the Democratic Party, the same people who have engineered the erosion of progressive politics in the U.S. since the mid-Eighties with their “new” and politically bankrupt, warmed-over…

Unfunny Valentine Despite our best efforts, THE CRISIS, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910, remains under the editorship of Victoria Valentine, a person who cannot tell the difference between friends and foes of the magazine’s parent organization, the NAACP. Valentine gave both praise and space to Cory Booker, the school vouchers advocate and board…

“I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals.” – George W. Bush, from Bush at War The Bush regime’s strategic decision to seize effective control of the planet translates domestically as wholesale pillaging of American civil society. Breathtaking is too weak a word to describe the scope of what the Republicans have accomplished under…