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Issue: 175

March 16, 2006

Cover Story

Blacks and Browns: The Need to Make Common Cause

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Georgia Democrats did the rest of the damage to themselves, by embracing the Bill Clinton/Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) brand of dollar-politics. This fatal, corporate-financed strategy encouraged white and Black Democrats to adopt watered down Republican positions in an ever-rightward search for white “swing” voters.” Georgia’s governor is a former elected white Democrat, and each election…

Georgia Democrats did the rest of the damage to themselves, by embracing the Bill Clinton/Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) brand of dollar-politics. This fatal, corporate-financed strategy encouraged…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Civil War in America

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

Every year the Sons of Confederate Veterans use the North Carolina statehouse to celebrate their annual confederate flag day ceremony. It has become more common in recent years for some white southerners to openly wax nostalgic for the days when their ancestors fought and died to preserve slavery. It is easy to see a connection…

Every year the Sons of Confederate Veterans use the North Carolina statehouse to celebrate their annual confederate flag day ceremony. It has become more common in…

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Commentary

Bruce’s Beat

By Bruce Dixon Editor

The man-made tragedies of the Gulf Coast and its mother city New Orleans are never far from our thoughts these days. The eyes of black America, though half blinded by the lack of mainstream news coverage, remain fixed on the unfolding spectacles of profiteering, privatization and ethnic cleansing. The wholesale displacement of black New Orleans…

The man-made tragedies of the Gulf Coast and its mother city New Orleans are never far from our thoughts these days. The eyes of black America,…

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Commentary

Radio BC: Big Money Bites Itself in Ass

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The contradictions of American capitalism flow like Niagara, as revealed by the controversy over the United Arab Emirates’ scheme to take over control of American ports. The fact is, the United States is ruled by a financial elite that creates nothing, does nothing, but move money around. The whole system is about exchanging money. This…

The contradictions of American capitalism flow like Niagara, as revealed by the controversy over the United Arab Emirates' scheme to take over control of American ports.…

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Guest Commentary

Et tu Michael Eric Dyson? Fraternizing with the Devil

By Dr. Jared A. Ball, PhD Guest Commentator

I was loving the new Dave Chappelle’s Block Party movie until Wyclef Jean brought me quickly out of my emersion in hip-hop/comedic heaven with that old crippling false optimism offered to the young. He gave them more of that tired stuff about how you can’t “blame the White man,” “nothing is holding you back,” “work…

I was loving the new Dave Chappelle's Block Party movie until Wyclef Jean brought me quickly out of my emersion in hip-hop/comedic heaven with that old…

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Guest Commentary

Revisiting King’s ‘White Moderate’

By Rhone Fraser Guest Commentator

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died at the age of thirty-nine, on April 4, 1968, exactly one year after the same day he gave one of his most memorable speeches on April 4, 1967 at Harlem’s Riverside Church, calling for an end to the war in Vietnam. As we approach the thirty-ninth anniversary of this…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died at the age of thirty-nine, on April 4, 1968, exactly one year after the same day he gave one of…

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Guest Commentary

Investigating the Crash Scene

By Derik Smith Guest Commentator

In coming semesters, this year’s winner of best picture at the Academy Awards likely will become one of the more frequently discussed films in American higher education. Because Paul Haggis’s Crash offers a convenient and generative entryway into myriad discourses swirling around the ever-interrogated category of race, many instructors and professors in the humanities and…

In coming semesters, this year's winner of best picture at the Academy Awards likely will become one of the more frequently discussed films in American higher…

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