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Issue: 165

January 5, 2006

Cover Story

Katrina, A Study-Black Consensus, White Dispute

By Glen Ford and Peter Gamble Publishers

Katrina shows there’s a lesson to be learned about continued racial inequality The differences of perceptions based on an event to which the entire nation was exposed in living color, are staggeringly instructive. Blacks and whites saw the same images, but perceived them differently. The Dawson poll, which included approximately 500 whites and 700 Blacks,…

Katrina shows there's a lesson to be learned about continued racial inequality The differences of perceptions based on an event to which the entire nation was…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Henry Louis Gates and the Times: Unfit to Print

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

On December 27, 2005 the New York Times printed an article entitled “Ghanaians’ Uneasy Embrace of Slavery’s Diaspora.” The New York Times rarely delivers on its claim to give its readers “all the news that is fit to print.” Even white politicians like John Kerry get biased coverage when they dare to challenge the established…

On December 27, 2005 the New York Times printed an article entitled "Ghanaians' Uneasy Embrace of Slavery's Diaspora." The New York Times rarely delivers on its…

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Commentary

Bruce’s Beat

By Bruce Dixon Editor

In BC‘s quest to illuminate some of the unpleasant truths confronting black America, outrageous ridicule is a most potent weapon. Near the beginning of the Iraq war BC skewered the war pornography of the embedded press, dressed the already very scary Janice Rogers Brown in a Clarence Thomas fright wig, and echoed Amiri Baraka when…

In BC's quest to illuminate some of the unpleasant truths confronting black America, outrageous ridicule is a most potent weapon. Near the beginning of the Iraq…

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Commentary

Radio BC: The Roots of Black-on-Black Crime

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

There is a strange confluence of conclusions among supposedly opposed political forces, on the subject of Black-on-Black crime. Why is it that most crimes committed by Blacks are committed against other Blacks? You will hear that question asked at gatherings of the most racist white reactionaries, and at great and grand convocations of African Americans…

There is a strange confluence of conclusions among supposedly opposed political forces, on the subject of Black-on-Black crime. Why is it that most crimes committed by…

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Commentary

A New Iraq or a New Orleans?

By James Clingman

Why have we spent as much as $1 billion per week to build a “New Iraq,” yet our compassionate government, headed by George Bush and his boys and girls, cannot find a billion a week to spend on New Orleans and those wiped out by Hurricane Katrina? What kind of a country is this anyway?…

Why have we spent as much as $1 billion per week to build a "New Iraq," yet our compassionate government, headed by George Bush and his…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Racism, Free Speech and the College Campus

By Tim Wise Guest Commentator

Mr. Wise is a noted white anti-racist activist. The following is a December 23, 2005 essay, followed by a December 29 review by Mr. Wise of comments generated by the original piece. Both can be found at www.timwise.org. As has been the case every year for as long as I can recall, an American college…

Mr. Wise is a noted white anti-racist activist. The following is a December 23, 2005 essay, followed by a December 29 review by Mr. Wise of…

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Commentary

The War Against Civilization

By John Maxwell

This article originally appeared in the Jamaica Observer. We cannot say we weren’t warned. On May 6, 2002, the United States denounced the International Criminal Court, telling the United Nations that it would no longer consider itself bound by the Treaty establishing the ICC – signed by President Clinton in the closing days of his…

This article originally appeared in the Jamaica Observer. We cannot say we weren't warned. On May 6, 2002, the United States denounced the International Criminal Court,…

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