Category: Commentary

Bob Johnson, the Black Entertainment Television founder with a personal net worth of $1.3 billion, is a Trojan Horse, an aggressive political operative of the Bush White House posing as a Democrat. He has used his high profile status as one-half of all African American billionaires (the determinedly non-partisan Oprah Winfrey is the other half)…

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling, throwing wide the door to wholesale privatization of public education in the United States, Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities re-emerges as required reading for everyone concerned with urban schools and the meaning of citizenship. The 1991 classic presents a clear and principled argument in defense of…

I read your website with interest as often as I can. While I do not always agree with what you say, sometimes you hit the nail on the head…. We [black folks] cannot continue to allow any one group, whether it is the Democratic Leadership Council, Republicans, or even the Congressional Black Caucus, to continue…

Dear Reader, The only thing Black that wants to go to war with Iraq is Condoleezza Rice, and she has told too many lies to be taken seriously. One wonders if Colin Powell, who is brilliant, will ever muster the courage to quit mouthing the foul script, and say the words he knows to be…

Bill Derman is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Michigan State University. He has been carrying out research in Zimbabwe since 1987 on resettlement, land use planning and water reform. John Metzler is Assistant Professor of Education and Outreach Coordinator for the African Studies Center. He has carried out research on colonial and independent…

Unfortunately, your rhetoric is unmatched by empirical data to support your claims. For example, give me some statistical demographics of the voting patterns in the Fourth District and show how it impacted the outcome of the election. Jones has just made it almost certain that his letter won’t be published, not because he disagrees with…

Dear Reader, On August 18, 1996, the San Jose Mercury News broke the story that should have been heard around the world. “For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug…

We have entered a new epoch, facing the same enemy with new and dangerous designs. The most critical task facing Black political activists is to identify, expose and defeat Black Trojan Horse electoral candidates. They must be identified early, before money and media have provided them with credibility within and beyond the Black electorate. We…

For them, the causes are entirely external. It was the Republican crossover vote. It was the outside money. It was white Democrats unfolding nefarious schemes from the governor’s office. It was the alliance of the hard Right and Zionists. It was a universally hostile media. In truth all these were important factors. But none of…

If you believe the torrents of propaganda spewing from the corporate media, Cynthia McKinney’s congressional loss in Georgia signals the end of Blacks as an effective political opposition in the U.S. That is the goal of the Hard Right’s New Black Strategy, the ultra-conservative game plan inaugurated last January with Cory Booker’s multi-million dollar attempt…