Category: Represent Our Resistance

The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village. Provided that he can be mayor, or humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart, or add to the savings in his strongbox, he considers the universal order good, unaware of those giants with seven-league boots who can crush him underfoot, or of the strife…

-Ariel Dorfman from “The Last Will and Testament” I do not know what it is like to believe in “my” government without question. I would have to believe not so much that my government was innocent but rather that what stands outside of my government and me is danger, chaos. I would not be deceived,…

Our government’s allegiance to Wall Street has closed its ears to its people. When the latter asked for an honest government and an honest president, they received another corporatist rogue, selected and nurtured by the Daley Machine and Wall Street to further its dream of global domination. Pleading for a Single-Payer Health Care Program, activist-citizens,…

Circulating on the Internet is a cartoon featuring Dr. Martin L. King and Barack Obama sitting across each other at a table. King, serious, leans forward. King: “So, that’s my dream. What’s your dream?” Obama: “To not piss off rich people – That’s really about it” and he laughs (Mr. Fish, “My Dream,” http://www.blackcommentator.com/410/410_cartoon_my_dream_fish.php). The…

The BBC radio host and non-American guests wanted to sound civil, objective, as they discussed another shooting rampage in the U.S. The Wild Wild West. Arizona. The OK Corral! John Wayne and Gary Cooper. The host and guests stumbled over the contradictions – the 2nd Amendment, the right to bare arms and shocked and grieving…

“‘You know what we women gotta’ do.’” I had come off the elevator and saw the new neighbor ahead of me, approaching her apartment door, just past my door. She turned and noticed me. I said “Hello, new neighbor,” as I unlocked my door and noticed the woman was walking toward me. My door stood…

It has been a month now since Frederick Jermaine Carter’s body was found on December 3, 2010 hanging from a tress in Greenwood, Mississippi. The writers and commentators on the liberal and left did not notice or, if they did, perhaps they shrugged their shoulders and accepted the unofficial “verdict” of the Mississippi sheriff: death…

Obama’s Orwellian embrace of all things corporate and politically rightward has been deliberate, forceful and consistent throughout his career; not the product of cowardice, weakness, incompetence, naïve idealism, or bad timing. This is Barack Obama, as he has always been: a servile facilitator and protector of the political establishment; an insidious capitulator and “consensus man”;…

The WikiLeaks: Establish a Norm of Indifference for the Developing Fascist State Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board There is a man sitting at his desk. He is on the phone taking care of business. Underneath the desk, there is a young woman. She, too, is taking care of…

Just Doing Our Jobs Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The master remains master. In our current social context, philosopher Slavoj Zizek writes, the “boss” is friendly. We call him or her by first name, and “he [or her] shares a dirty joke with us,” In Defense of Lost…