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Issue: 267

March 6, 2008

Guest Commentary

The King, the Knave and the Knight

By Philip A. Bassett Guest Commentator

A friend tells me there is “no documented evidence” of the KKK in St. Joseph, MI, right across the river from Benton Harbor, a city that is almost entirely populated by black people. But looking at the perfect, sterile beauty of St. Joseph and the boarded-up broken promises of Benton Harbor, it’s hard not to…

A friend tells me there is “no documented evidence” of the KKK in St. Joseph, MI, right across the river from Benton Harbor, a city that…

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Guest Commentary

Let’s Get Our Heads Out of the Sand

By Lloyd Wynn, JD Guest Commentator

The stone, hard, cold reality is this economy is about go into a tailspin, unlike anything you have witnessed. The recessions of 1980-82, 1990-91 and 2001 were minor in comparison with the imminent decline of this economy. This one will be characterized by massive job lost. The good news is the downward spiral we are…

The stone, hard, cold reality is this economy is about go into a tailspin, unlike anything you have witnessed. The recessions of 1980-82, 1990-91 and 2001…

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Quote to Ponder

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Obama’s Farrakhan – Jeremiah Wright Dilemma: Race, Religion and the Politics of Repudiation

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Based on that one statement, both Russert and Clinton (sensing an opening) called on Obama, not just to denounce AND reject Farrakhan statements but Farrakhan himself. Obama “conceded the point,” clearly an uncomfortable moment watching him get twisted on someone who has huge street cred in the black community. They then turned to Obama’s personal…

Based on that one statement, both Russert and Clinton (sensing an opening) called on Obama, not just to denounce AND reject Farrakhan statements but Farrakhan himself.…

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Commentary

Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success? – Justice Watch

By Bill Quigley Columnist

Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing. Few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals…

Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages…

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Commentary

The Needed Mental Attributes of a President; The Presidential Campaign and Forthcoming Appointments to the Supreme Court; A Bail Out for Homeowners; And Bloomberg’s Game – National Affairs

By Lawrence R. Velvel, JD Columnist

Yesterday, at our faculty lunch table, I was marveling at the fact that a person as stupid and incompetent as George Bush has regularly shown himself to be, could appear so personable, charming and even intelligent as he was when speaking about (and to) the Boston Red Sox before the White House news media. (Even…

Yesterday, at our faculty lunch table, I was marveling at the fact that a person as stupid and incompetent as George Bush has regularly shown himself…

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Commentary

Teaching the Truth and Reparations

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Throughout the country, Africans in America are now becoming more sensitive to challenging the racist and white supremacist basis of the African public school curriculum. Through the National Black United Front (NBUF) and its world African Centered Education Plan, more Africans in America are beginning to see the need for massive curriculum change in the…

Throughout the country, Africans in America are now becoming more sensitive to challenging the racist and white supremacist basis of the African public school curriculum. Through…

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