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Issue: 236

July 5, 2007

Commentary

Color of Law: Clarence Thomas – The Man Who Desecrates the Legacy of Thurgood Marshall

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The current issue is always free to everyone “Today’s Uncle Tom doesn’t wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He’s usually well-dressed and well-educated. He’s often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes…

The current issue is always free to everyone "Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears…

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Commentary

Inclusion: Supreme Court Decision Limits All Student Rights

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

As we commemorate the Fourth of July with festivities across the nation, many of us will not be celebrating because of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that has turned back the hands of time, driving us back to this country’s horrific era of legalized segregation. In a 5-to-4 vote, a slim majority of justices…

As we commemorate the Fourth of July with festivities across the nation, many of us will not be celebrating because of the recent U.S. Supreme Court…

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Commentary

Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court “Separate But (Un)Equal” Is Legal Again In Public Schools

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that public education officials may not use race to achieve integration in public schools. Yes, you heard it right. After 52 years, the high Court reversed itself on the venerable case of Brown v. Board of Education, five separate cases consolidated under one oral argument—then called “the…

The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that public education officials may not use race to achieve integration in public schools. Yes, you heard it…

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Commentary

Travesty of Justice: The Elio Carrion case and the Acquittal of Ivory Webb

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

You had to have seen the video. You know what I am talking about. The grainy video of Iraq war veteran Elio Carrion being shot several times by California police officer Ivory Webb while the former sat unarmed. The blatant brutality of the action made it seem almost unreal. Yet we were just reminded—if we…

You had to have seen the video. You know what I am talking about. The grainy video of Iraq war veteran Elio Carrion being shot several…

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Commentary

Justice Watch: Injustice in Jena, Louisiana as Nooses Hang from the White Tree

By Bill Quigley Columnist

In a small still mostly segregated section of rural Louisiana, an all white jury heard a series of white witnesses called by a white prosecutor testify in a courtroom overseen by a white judge in a trial of a fight at the local high school where a white student who had been making racial taunts…

In a small still mostly segregated section of rural Louisiana, an all white jury heard a series of white witnesses called by a white prosecutor testify…

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Commentary

Left Margin: A Breath of Fresh Air in Berlin

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

“Zeitgeist” is a Germany word. Dr. Martin Luther King used it to explain why the modern U.S. civil rights movement arose when it did. Webster says it means the “taste and outlook of a period: the spirit of the time.” Simply stated, the moment has come. So it was a bold assertion when, in a…

“Zeitgeist” is a Germany word. Dr. Martin Luther King used it to explain why the modern U.S. civil rights movement arose when it did. Webster says…

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Commentary

Keeping It Real: Mental Consciousness

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

This week I ask you to journey back to November 1972, read, analyze, and compare the message contained in the October / November 1972 Newsletter of the San Francisco Black Caucus with where Black America is today in 2007. The following is from that 1972, San Francisco Black Caucus piece entitled, Mental Consciousness: “The sweeping…

This week I ask you to journey back to November 1972, read, analyze, and compare the message contained in the October / November 1972 Newsletter of…

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