Category: Represent Our Resistance

–Langston Hughes, “Song after Lynching” President Barack Obama takes his magic show on the road. The Bush cards featuring predominantly Islamic “terrorist” figures are gone. But Obama has a deck of cards; he has a newly crafted magical wand! In Turkey, April 6, 2009, President Obama acknowledges “hard feelings over Iraq.” But it’s a new…

– Martin Luther King Jr. On radio programs that still present an analysis of world politics, the hosts and guests speak openly about “U.S. interests in Mexico” or they discuss “what the U.S. must do to improve conditions in Afghanistan.” The host and guest often talk in an all-knowing, omnipotent tone about “the other.” Most…

We take you back, Fannie Lou, because we are sick and tired of being sick and tired… The banners and posters and signs read: “Occupation is a Crime – Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,” “We Need Jobs and Schools: Not War,” “End the Occupation: Justice for Palestine.” The banners, posters, and signs were held mainly by white,…

-Malcolm X Last week, National Public Radio featured a discussion on First Lady Michelle Obama. The First Lady received her degree from Princeton and her law degree from Harvard. The host made sure to mention this. But the tease was Michelle Oba ma’s shoulders. She exposed her shoulders at her husband’s first State of the…

It is not enough that Black and Brown children are subjected to the school-to-prison “programs” called “education in America. We have Arne Duncan, Education Chief, who specializes in establishing military schools for Black and Brown children. From white liberals we hear this question: how do we (the city, the state, the nation) provide schooling for…

A few comments about last Thursday’s hearing before Judge Chin on the Madoff matter may be warranted. Reading the transcript with a lawyer’s eye, it seems evident that Judge Chin had made up his mind as to what he was going to do before he walked into the courtroom. Giving people a right to speak…

-J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year The U.S. won’t be there! President Barack Obama doesn’t want to look back. Racism is dead. Let’s move on! So the U.S. won’t be there. It has better, nobler things to do. It plans to boycott the United Nation’s World Conference on Racism scheduled for April 20-25, 2009…

A published list of the wealthiest entertainers (film stars and athletes), was fine. A published list of the wealthiest politicians was fine. A published list of the wealthiest Americans was fine. A published list of the wealthiest corporations, the Fortune 500, was “priceless.” The lists were signs of the American Empire’s growth and prosperity. Then…

Somerset decision (1772) in Great Britain impressed Anglo-Americans in the colonies. In Slave Nation: How Slavery United The Colonies And Sparked The American Revolution , the author writes, “Somerset never knew that his private quest for freedom was the spark that helped start the American Revolution and that has haunted the nation down to the…

“Don’t look down.” I didn’t like the grass around the house I was renting then. It was hard to cut grass on little hilly slopes, and, as a result, the grass around that house didn’t look so neat and trim. “If you are stressed by it, don’t look down,” she, an older woman neighbor, advised.…