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Issue: 242

September 6, 2007

Guest Commentary

“The Problem of the Color Line”

By The Reverend Douglas Demetrius Prather Guest Commentator

The current issue is always free to everyone One need not look very far in Cynthia Tucker’s editorial entitled, “SCLC should channel energies into plight of black youth,” to realize that she asserts social service for black America over social advocacy. Historically, traditional civil rights organizations that were mentioned, the SCLC and the NAACP, have…

The current issue is always free to everyone One need not look very far in Cynthia Tucker’s editorial entitled, “SCLC should channel energies into plight of…

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Commentary

Worrill’s World: Teaching the Truth and the New School Year

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

For example, Woodson says, “The philosophy and ethics resulting from our educational system have justified slavery, peonage, segregation and lynching. The oppressor has the right to exploit, to handicap, and to kill the oppressed.” Continuing on, Woodson explains that, “No systematic effort toward change had been possible for, taught the same economics, history, philosophy, literature…

For example, Woodson says, “The philosophy and ethics resulting from our educational system have justified slavery, peonage, segregation and lynching. The oppressor has the right to…

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