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April 5, 2002

Commentary

Fruit of the Poisoned Tree

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Fruit of the Poisoned Tree The Hard Rights Plan to Capture Newark NJ “Vouchers are a pernicious, steal-from-the-poor-and-give-to-the-rich scheme. They take money from our public school students, give it instead to private schools, and abandon many of our children in the process” – NAACP executive director Kweisi Mfume “The privatization of schooling would produce a…

Fruit of the Poisoned Tree The Hard Rights Plan to Capture Newark NJ "Vouchers are a pernicious, steal-from-the-poor-and-give-to-the-rich scheme. They take money from our public school…

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Commentary

Make the Amendment

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

MAKE THE AMENDMENT HOW TO GET THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRADE “Look out, heroin is on its way Big Time, because we’re going to allow those who we are allied with to get away with it.” – U.S. Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), November 2001 “Our main mission was to do as…

MAKE THE AMENDMENT HOW TO GET THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRADE "Look out, heroin is on its way Big Time, because we're…

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Commentary

The Death Penalty

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Hungary’s beleaguered Gypsies, or Roma, constitute 5% of the population but account for around 60% of the nation’s male prison inmates. The penal system of Romania, home to the world’s largest concentration of Gypsies, appears to have been designed mainly for the purpose of keeping the Roma out of circulation. In Spain, the descendants of…

Hungary's beleaguered Gypsies, or Roma, constitute 5% of the population but account for around 60% of the nation's male prison inmates. The penal system of Romania,…

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Cartoon

Cartoon

Cartoon

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Art

Art Forms: Common Threads

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Source gap: the original Issue 1 artwork is no longer available; its live URL was later replaced by an Issue 71 page.

Source gap: the original Issue 1 artwork is no longer available; its live URL was later replaced by an Issue 71 page.

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Commentary

Linquistic Profiling

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Racists have some slippery ways of denying their guilt. When charged with administering job or school application tests that are culturally biased, they claim the tests are “merit-based.” When racist cops stop and search an innocent young Black man driving through a white neighborhood, they cite crime statistics to back up their actions. And when…

Racists have some slippery ways of denying their guilt. When charged with administering job or school application tests that are culturally biased, they claim the tests…

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