Category: Commentary

We want Span to get the money for the Community Land Security proposal, lots of it. There is nothing threatening about the program except Span’s marketing strategy. With each day, George Bush draws a tighter circle of hate around the United States, and it becomes more likely that some of Them will strike in ways…

Third, there is a special relationship between blacks and Jews that cannot be destroyed by AIPAC or anyone else. The relationship is sustained by both good and evil. As long as Jews and African-Americans remember their shared heritage of slavery and oppression we will be tied together in our shared and perilous journey to freedom.…

Dear Reader, George Bush is out to make Robert Mugabe into the Saddam Hussein of Africa, a life-threatening condition. When top State Department officials declare that “the political status quo is unacceptable,” that Zimbabwe’s government is “illegitimate,” they are announcing U.S. intentions to remove Mugabe by force, if necessary. Although there is plenty of old-style,…

Kennedy is among a growing number of what could be called Black counter-opinion-makers; African Americans who can be counted on to help whites rationalize racism. This peculiar and perverted little industry has its own specialists and, like flies drawn to cow dung, they find each other. It is useful here to remind readers of the…

Dr. Chika A. Onyeani is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of The African Sun Times, based in East Orange, NJ. In Zimbabwe, white farmers are still being defiant to the order issued by the government of President Robert Mugabe that they should vacate farm lands that government has targeted for take over. Others have decided to obey…

It is important that Black youth, the Reparations Generation, have the benefit of detailed proposals from adults with ideas on how they might become the architects of their own destinies. The popularizing phase of Reparations is near completion. We must take the movement further, by engaging the talents, skills and imaginations of the people, especially…

Opio Lumumba Sokoni is an activist lawyer trained at Howard University School of Law. He is the Drug Policy Alliance’s campaign coordinator for Measure 62. The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is a nationwide drug reform organization that believes the war on drugs has failed and it’s time to start looking at alternatives. DPA believes drug…

Dear Reader, The electoral defeat of Rep. Cynthia McKinney signals the end of any “special relationship” between African Americans and mainstream organized American Jewry. Plenty of Blacks will make themselves available to tell these mainstream Jewish organizations differently, but the end has come, nonetheless. (Note my language, carefully: I did not say that we have…

Dr. Martin Kilson’s grand overview of the course of Black American electoral politics during the past three decades is required reading for all persons concerned with U.S. history and politics. Kilson’s exposition and interpretation of the “core agenda” that has mobilized African American activists, politicians and voters, from passage of the Voting Rights Act of…

The people who control the machinery of popular American culture do not truly believe in the dignity of labor. How could they, in a nation built on the backs of slaves, a society in which human worth – humanness, itself – was measured in direct inverse ratio to the difficulty of the tasks performed. The…