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Issue: 145

July 7, 2005

Cover Story

PBS Shills for a Black Trojan Horse – The Cory Booker Propaganda Show

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The media campaign to impose Cory Booker, rich white people’s favorite Black politician, on Black America, has begun in earnest – again. Booker, the one-term Newark city councilman who challenged Mayor Sharpe James in 2002, is making another run next year, and is certain to raise millions of dollars through his deep connections to the…

The media campaign to impose Cory Booker, rich white people’s favorite Black politician, on Black America, has begun in earnest – again. Booker, the one-term Newark…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Not Another Clarence Thomas

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

It was inevitable. George W. Bush was eventually going to nominate a Supreme Court justice. The resignation of Sandra Day O’Connor is the moment the right wing have been waiting for. Actually they didn’t sit around waiting. They made it all happen when they stole the 2000 presidential election. Bush may be inarticulate and suffering…

It was inevitable. George W. Bush was eventually going to nominate a Supreme Court justice. The resignation of Sandra Day O’Connor is the moment the right…

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Commentary

Think Piece: America, the Violent (Part II)

By Ira M. Leonard

This article was originally published in the Hartford Advocate. “Increasingly, Americans are a people without history with only memory, which means a people poorly prepared for what is inevitable about life – tragedy, sadness, moral ambiguity – and therefore a people reluctant to engage difficult ethical issues.” – Elliot Gorn, “Professing History: Distinguishing Between Memory…

This article was originally published in the Hartford Advocate. "Increasingly, Americans are a people without history with only memory, which means a people poorly prepared for…

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Guest Commentary

Knowing The Difference Between A Conscious Black, A Negro and A Ni**a

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

As the politics of progressivism becomes more an examination of social engineering whereby segments of society seek to establish a social pecking order based on achievement of the collective, the progress of Black America still represents the most suspect proposition. While there are more examples of black achievement on an individual basis, there is a…

As the politics of progressivism becomes more an examination of social engineering whereby segments of society seek to establish a social pecking order based on achievement…

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Guest Commentary

White Mexican Racism Rears Its Ugly Head Again

By Abdul Karim Bangura Guest Commentator

One of my mantras to our Afrikan students from both the Motherland and in the Diaspora is that we must get rid of the myth of Afrikans being a “minority.” And that since there are more people on this earth who look like Whitney than Britney, we have the potential to stop the marginalization and…

One of my mantras to our Afrikan students from both the Motherland and in the Diaspora is that we must get rid of the myth of…

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Guest Commentary

Haitian Elections: No Voters, No Problem

By Sue Ashdown and Olivia Burlingame Goumbri Guest Commentators

The elections planned by the U.S. and its allies for Haiti in the fall are a fiasco that is becoming impossible to conceal. Faced with the hopeless prospect of registering 4.5 million Haitians by August 13th (60 days before the first election on October 13), Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (known by its French acronym CEP)…

The elections planned by the U.S. and its allies for Haiti in the fall are a fiasco that is becoming impossible to conceal. Faced with the…

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