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Issue: 179

April 13, 2006

Cover Story

The McKinney Affair-Rampaging Racism and a Cowardly Caucus

By Glen Ford and Peter Gamble Publishers

There are profound lessons to be learned from the ongoing travails of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), under siege by white America at large, the leadership of her own party, and the chairman of her own caucus. In the aftermath of McKinney’s run-in with a Capitol Hill police officer, we have witnessed an orgy of unadulterated…

There are profound lessons to be learned from the ongoing travails of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), under siege by white America at large, the leadership of…

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Commentary

BC is in Dire Straits – Without More Help, We Will Go Under

By Glen Ford and Peter Gamble Publishers

In four years of operations, BlackCommentator.com has become the most influential Black political magazine on or off the Internet. We have achieved much of our social mission: to help shape and frame the dialogue, first, within the African American polity and, secondly, between African Americans and their non-Black allies. We have attempted to draw “bright…

In four years of operations, BlackCommentator.com has become the most influential Black political magazine on or off the Internet. We have achieved much of our social…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: McKinney, DeLay and Distraction

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

The corporate media and the American political system have a relationship that can only be described as corrupt. The media long ago rendered themselves incapable of informing the public of anything important or providing any meaningful analysis. They no longer even bother to hide their bias in favor of right wing politics and corporate interests.…

The corporate media and the American political system have a relationship that can only be described as corrupt. The media long ago rendered themselves incapable of…

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Commentary

Bruce’s Beat

By Bruce Dixon Editor

Last week’s BC cover story unmasked Atlanta’s Kasim Reed, a part-time Democrat and black state senator and a full time corporate attorney with an anti-civil rights and pro-employment discrimination practice, and generated quite a bit of reader email. There was this comment from Mr. Albert Murphy: Thanks for your superb article on Kasim Reed, and…

Last week's BC cover story unmasked Atlanta's Kasim Reed, a part-time Democrat and black state senator and a full time corporate attorney with an anti-civil rights…

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Commentary

Radio BC: Immigrant Militancy, Black Malaise

By Glen Ford Co-Publisher & Executive Editor

I still believe this is a factor – but then we witnessed the glorious turnout among immigrants, a high proportion of whom were liable for deportation should they fall into police hands during a confrontation. Yet they still marched, and chanted, and nobody covered their faces. It has been suggested that the demonstrations were so…

I still believe this is a factor – but then we witnessed the glorious turnout among immigrants, a high proportion of whom were liable for deportation…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Back to the Future: The U.S. in Iraq and the Philippines

By William Loren Katz

Critics of the United States occupation of Iraq usually find it analogous to the war in Viet Nam, which cost 60,000 American lives, deeply divided the country and ended ignominiously. Certainly, White House rhetoric on Iraq recalls the government’s talk during the Vietnam era of fighting tyranny and advancing freedom in Southeast Asia. But although…

Critics of the United States occupation of Iraq usually find it analogous to the war in Viet Nam, which cost 60,000 American lives, deeply divided the…

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Guest Commentary

Urban League’s Annual Death Report: The cynical musings of an ignored black boy in America

By Dr. Alonzo Fleming, Jr Guest Commentator

This article originally appeared on Dr. Fleming’s website, www.theblackpew.com. Here we go again. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result, then the Civil Rights beggars have cornered the market on insanity. The Urban League released its 2006 State of Black America report, and yep, you guessed it!…

This article originally appeared on Dr. Fleming’s website, www.theblackpew.com. Here we go again. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a…

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Guest Commentary

Racism Is Alive and Well in the Academe

By Abdul Karim Bangura Guest Commentator

When in the fall of 2001 Harvard University President Lawrence Summers staged a confrontation with prominent African American Studies Professor Cornel West, browbeating him for what Summers characterized as spending too much time on political activism and spoken-word poetry, missing too many classes, and contributing to grade inflation, West was the one that ended leaving…

When in the fall of 2001 Harvard University President Lawrence Summers staged a confrontation with prominent African American Studies Professor Cornel West, browbeating him for what…

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