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Category: Guest Commentary

Guest Commentary

Neither Harvard nor Any Other Private University Can Allow Itself To Be Taken Over by the Federal Government

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

A number of HBCUs barely treading water are particularly in danger of being subjected to the intense pressure this administration could or would apply.

Ample sighs of unrestrained relief frantically cascaded throughout multiple segments of the higher education community upon Harvard University’s refusal to capitulate to the Trump administration’s demands…

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The Signal Leak Crisis: False Bravado and Disingenuous Arguments

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Think about it. They have demanded that the Pentagon delete tributes to the Tuskegee Airmen, remove photos of soldiers of multiple races and ethnicities at Iwo Jima, and purge images of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb that ended World War II because its name is the Enola Gay. Irrefutably stupid.

Mind you, these same people deride DEI programs! It has been a couple of weeks since the Signal Leak Crisis,where several of President Trump’s national security…

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Bigoted and Reactionary Antics by the Defense Department

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

they resent inspirational historical accounts that highlight race, gender, LGBTQIA+, non-Christian denominations, and so on.

Avid followers of the news are aware that Trump ordered the Pentagon to scan federal websites for articles, social media posts, photos, news articles, and videos…

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Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny

By Ralph Nader Guest Commentator

Don’t self-censoring people know that they are helping the Trumpian dread, threat and fear machine get worse? Study Germany and Italy in the nineteen thirties.

There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the…

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Free Speech

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

the Trump administration is disingenuously exploiting anti-Semitism in an effort to further enact a right-wing agenda that is largely characterized by anti-Semitism.

Anyone who has a beating heart and is astute enough should be conscious of the fact that debates over free speech, cultural appropriation, intolerance, and numerous…

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Women’s History Month – Women’s Equality: What Will It Take? What Will It Yield?

By H. Patricia Hynes Guest Commentator

More than a century later women can vote, hold office and have equal rights in theory, but that has not changed the reality that men claim almost total political power.

International Women’s Day had its origins in great social unrest, turbulence and critical debate among women in Western countries regarding their oppressive working conditions in factories…

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Trump and His Copresident Elon Musk’s Current Antics

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

they must grow a backbone and make it transparent that they are fighting for the people to prevent the nation from becoming autocratic and fascist.

More than a few journalists, pundits, commentators, and others are bemoaning what they see as the Democratic Party’s downward spiral. The Democrats have no message. The…

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DEI Is Important

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Donald Trump does not give a damn about meritocracy.

First responders and National Guardsmen were still retrieving dead bodies from the icy waters of the Potomac River on January 30 when President Donald Trump stated…

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Here We Are Again

By Larry Matthews Guest Commentator

The sobering reality is that the government is now openly for sale.

Here we are again. The village idiot has wandered back into town on a wave of bullshit and a sack full of prejudice and villainy. You…

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