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October 4, 2007

Commentary

Clarence Thomas Gets Caught Trying to Reinvent Anita Hill

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Meanwhile, siding with the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas concluded that school districts have no interest in remedying segregation: “But without a history of state-enforced racial separation, a school district has no affirmative legal obligation to take race-based remedial measures to eliminate segregation and its vestiges… As these programs demonstrate, every time the government uses racial…

Meanwhile, siding with the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas concluded that school districts have no interest in remedying segregation: "But without a history of state-enforced racial separation,…

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Commentary

Three Cheers for the NAACP

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone Should a new post-Civil Rights Movement leadership identity be fashioned for the NAACP? That is the big question raised by last week’s cover story in BlackCommentator.com : “The Role of the Black Elite in Outreaching to the Black Lower Class, And How It Relates to the National…

The current issue is always free to everyone Should a new post-Civil Rights Movement leadership identity be fashioned for the NAACP? That is the big question…

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Commentary

Keeping It Real: Know Your Enemy – Co-optation, Discreditation, Elimination and The “N” Word

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone Recently, I found myself once again forcing myself to listen painfully to a well known, now nationally syndicated, liberal, so-called progressive radio / television program that broadcasts from New York, NY, whose white and primary host was interviewing an east African Nobel prize winner. It was in…

The current issue is always free to everyone Recently, I found myself once again forcing myself to listen painfully to a well known, now nationally syndicated,…

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Commentary

Student Writers’ Corner: People Need to Ignore the Stereotypes of Black Males

By Ashley Bates

The current issue is always free to everyone This is the first Student Writers’ Corner column. Recently, BC Columnist Larry Pinkney introduced us to Ashley Bates of Florida A&M who sent him a sample of her writing. If you are a student writer or know one or teach one, please Contact Us and submit something…

The current issue is always free to everyone This is the first Student Writers' Corner column. Recently, BC Columnist Larry Pinkney introduced us to Ashley Bates…

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Commentary

Color of Law: Academic McCarthyism Threatens Democracy

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The current issue is always free to everyone Columbia University President Lee Bollinger recently took a lot of heat when he allowed Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to make a speech at the Ivy League institution. Bollinger, a First Amendment legal scholar, understands the importance of free speech in a democratic system. And these days, free…

The current issue is always free to everyone Columbia University President Lee Bollinger recently took a lot of heat when he allowed Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…

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Commentary

Represent Our Resistance: Banned Books, Banned People, and a Return to Our Cultural Value System

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Bodies left to float in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans for days while the world watched on. The attempt to expel from the narrative of innocence the very “dirty” image of nooses hung on a tree with whitewashing words: “teenage pranks.” By banning the reading of Beloved, are the censors suggesting that the rape…

Bodies left to float in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans for days while the world watched on. The attempt to expel from the narrative of…

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