Category: Guest Commentary

While America is indeed a very colorful, racially diverse, and a pluralistic society, our history has been anything but racially progressive, open and tolerant. Past and present.

How can we hope to cure, repair, mitigate the centuries of damages done by racism when we cannot even officially and unequivocally make the diagnosis?

such forces have been very astute to playing on the fears, resentments, hatreds, fragilities and insecurities that have rankled the psyches of their listeners, readers, voters, and congregations.

When asked to share alternatives to capitalism, ChatGPT offered many options, none of which rely on the fantasy that money hoarding at the top can eventually benefit the rest of us.

Likely future indictments in Atlanta and Washington will add to his difficulties.

Rather than focusing on tactics and effort that can or will possibly provide substantial dividends for Black (and in some cases other constituents), many organizations, such as the NAACP and others, have too often resorted to relegating themselves to performing symbolic gestures.

Corporate media outlets have often furthered racist narratives, and do so even today. In contrast, independent media outlets have centered racial justice, offering platforms to marginalized communities.

The Target company’s capitulation to homophobes and transphobes is a testament to the dangers of relying on corporations to uphold social justice.

Where violence leaves winners and losers, constructive ends that foster working relationships are never constructed from violence.

Americans on the left can be just as blinkered and arrogant as all the figures further to the right that we’ve criticized repeatedly for the same sins.