Category: Represent Our Resistance

A Recipe for Fascism? Look in Any College or University Classroom in the U.S. Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Students in the U.S are wired and hooked up. iPods, Blue Tubes, Blackberries, and lap tops enter the college classroom attached to a student who has left his or…

Don’t Expect the Racist (or the Criminal) to Apologize: The George and Kanye Spectacle Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Bush, the second, tells us that of all the issues he had to deal with during his two terms as President of the U.S. overseeing the collapse of Wall…

The Scott Sisters: Has Jamie Scott Been Handed the Death Penalty? Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board In 1989, Michael David Graham decides to end his ex-wife’s life. He points a shotgun at her and that is it. In 2008, his governor, Haley Barbour, suspends his life sentence, and…

This seizes the country every four years because we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls and choose one of the two mediocrities who have already been chosen for us. It…

Does the American Liberal Need More of Mark Twainism? Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board “Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain’s dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted…

– Chris Hedges, “How Democracy Dies: Lessons from a Master” A few weeks ago, I came across an ad inviting college graduates to consider working for Homeland Security. For the college graduate, strapped with negotiating the repayment of student loans while struggling with minimum wages as servers at McDonalds, the starting salary of 35,000 is…

– Albert Einstein The teenaged William O’Neal in 1968 could avoid a felony charge for interstate care theft and for impersonating a federal officer if he agreed to assist in the construction of a narrative, agreed to be a reliable narrator. So the young O’Neal joins the Black Panthers in Chicago, and moves through the…

Belief Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board A story is impelled by the necessity to reveal: the aim of the story is revelation, which means that a story can have nothing to hide. – James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work You must certainly put him to death. You hand…

Good Thinking – Popularly Known as Positive Thinking: Barbara Ehrenreich’s Discussion of Bright-sided – How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board “People’s mothers die!” Cancer consumed my mother’s life in 1986, and, a month later, under the ether of the…

Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to whites; in reason much inferior…and that in imagination, they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous…I advance it therefore…that the blacks…are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind. (Notes on the…