Issue: 15
November 4, 2002
Commentary
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Bogus Election “Study”
Editor
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s accounts of the Cynthia McKinney – Denise Majette congressional primary race, which have served as the basis for widespread claims that Black voters are becoming more conservative, are bogus inventions, indefensible by any demographic and statistical standards. Denise Majette’s claims to substantial African American support in the August election, as well as…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's accounts of the Cynthia McKinney - Denise Majette congressional primary race, which have served as the basis for widespread claims that Black voters…
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Commentary
Harvard Professor Lambasts THE CRISIS Editor
Guest Commentator
From the Publishers of The Black Commentator: The NAACP has placed a weak and confused guardian at the gates of its venerable publication, THE CRISIS. Founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910, the magazine is edited by Victoria Valentine, who answers to publisher and magazine board chairman Roger Wilkins. In an editorial remarkable for its…
From the Publishers of The Black Commentator: The NAACP has placed a weak and confused guardian at the gates of its venerable publication, THE CRISIS. Founded…
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Commentary
Land Struggles and Democracy in Zimbabwe
Framing the land issue in Zimbabwe as “white farmers vs. black peasants” buys into a racial smokescreen about what is at stake. In the U.S., that smokescreen is promoted by white-owned media, acting in ironic alliance with Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe. In both cases, though from opposite sides, obscuring the nature of real democratic land…
Framing the land issue in Zimbabwe as "white farmers vs. black peasants" buys into a racial smokescreen about what is at stake. In the U.S., that…
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Commentary
Politics Trumps Religion Re-Print
Guest Commentator
This re-print is from Racewire, published by Color Lines magazine MILWAUKEE, WI – Easter Dethrow is a substance abuse counselor who works the streets of Milwaukee rather than the halls of Washington, D.C. Around town, he’s known as the man closest to the reality of those struggling to overcome their addictions. Dethrow, a former abuser…
This re-print is from Racewire, published by Color Lines magazine MILWAUKEE, WI - Easter Dethrow is a substance abuse counselor who works the streets of Milwaukee…
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Commentary
Wellstone: The Best of Them All
Guest Commentator
If Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone had been an African American, Black America would be in deepest mourning – and for far more than symbolic reasons. In terms of supporting Black interests, Wellstone may have been the best lawmaker the U.S. Senate has produced since abolitionist Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, who was beaten to within an…
If Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone had been an African American, Black America would be in deepest mourning - and for far more than symbolic reasons. In…
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Commentary
Briefs
Guest Commentator
We recoil with horror at the inconsistency of a supposedly ‘free’ society where responsibility to freedom is equated with the responsibility to lend oneself to military aggression. We take note of the fact that 16 per cent of the draftees of this country are Negroes called on to stifle the liberation of Viet Nam, to…
We recoil with horror at the inconsistency of a supposedly 'free' society where responsibility to freedom is equated with the responsibility to lend oneself to military…
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Guest Commentator
Your publication, which stimulates analytical and critical thinking, is performing a great service and it achieves excellence in its highest forms. Please be encouraged and keep up the good work. Dr. Holloway is Director of the Humanities Program at Hampton. Keep writing. Analysis The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Bogus Election “Study” Black Majette vote grossly inflated, analysis…
Your publication, which stimulates analytical and critical thinking, is performing a great service and it achieves excellence in its highest forms. Please be encouraged and keep…
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