Category: Guest Commentary

“I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open the Door, I’ll Get it Myself).” – James Brown “In the colonies the truth stood naked but the citizens of the mother country preferred it with clothes on.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth I double-dog dare anyone to solve…

When nine white men met and plotted at #10 Downing Street in London, England, on July 23, 2002, they probably did not anticipate that three years later a small group of U.S. Congress Members, led by black men and women, would make that meeting a focus of public attention. But when Congress Members John Conyers,…

Trapped up in the “white race” corral all the time, most Americans are not only oblivious to what’s happening in the world outside their own segregated block, but also, and for the same reason, prone to seeing everything in monoliths: good and evil; white and black; Arab and Jew; Christian and Muslim; the U.S. and…

Yasser Salihee is dead. He was on his way to drive his family to a swimming pool in western Baghdad when he was struck by a single bullet to head – he died instantly. Some say he was an unintentional casualty of war. Some whisper “the wolves got him.” You see, since May, Dr. Salihee,…

As the politics of progressivism becomes more an examination of social engineering whereby segments of society seek to establish a social pecking order based on achievement of the collective, the progress of Black America still represents the most suspect proposition. While there are more examples of black achievement on an individual basis, there is a…

One of my mantras to our Afrikan students from both the Motherland and in the Diaspora is that we must get rid of the myth of Afrikans being a “minority.” And that since there are more people on this earth who look like Whitney than Britney, we have the potential to stop the marginalization and…

The elections planned by the U.S. and its allies for Haiti in the fall are a fiasco that is becoming impossible to conceal. Faced with the hopeless prospect of registering 4.5 million Haitians by August 13th (60 days before the first election on October 13), Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (known by its French acronym CEP)…

It is never too late to end terror. That’s what I think about as I look at the news about the conviction of Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen in the murders of civil rights icons/martyrs Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, whose story was told in the movie, “Mississippi Burning.” I cannot help but reflect on…

Note: This column is 200 words shorter than usual because Billy Hunter lost 25% of it in the NBA’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The world be an incrementally better place if the Detroit Pistons had won the NBA championship. I believe this even though their Game Seven loss to the Spurs meant that we’ve been…

Under the guise of adhering to President George Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” policy, powerful and ruthless politicians and business entities are seeking to steal control of local school systems all over the country. The disturbing trend towards marrying education with business is sometimes overt and sometimes deviously disguised, as was the case when the…