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Issue: 275

May 1, 2008

Cover Story

Get Carter!: The Attack on Jimmy Carter’s Middle East Peace Efforts by Bush & Olmert – The African World

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Former President James (Jimmy) Carter has the ability to appear almost out of thin air, landing in the midst of some of the most complex international crises. He has done it again, this time in going to meet with the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas. For reaching out to this significant section of the Palestinian movement,…

Former President James (Jimmy) Carter has the ability to appear almost out of thin air, landing in the midst of some of the most complex international…

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Commentary

Where is Justice Hiding?

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Jamala Rogers is Mark’s guest Thursday, May 1, 2008 The recent acquittal of NYPD undercover detectives, Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper, can be likened to throwing a Molotov cocktail in a room full of powder kegs – and missing this time. The incendiary cocktails are the legal justifications by the US courts of…

Jamala Rogers is Mark's guest Thursday, May 1, 2008 The recent acquittal of NYPD undercover detectives, Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper, can be likened…

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Commentary

Sean Bell Verdict Complicates Things for Obama

By Roberto Lovato Guest Commentator

The acquittal, Friday, April 25th 2008, of the 3 police officers accused of killing Sean Bell in November of 2006 will complicate Barack Obama’s efforts to win the presidency in November 2008. His candidacy already mired in the racial machinations of his opponents, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Obama will find himself having to maneuver…

The acquittal, Friday, April 25th 2008, of the 3 police officers accused of killing Sean Bell in November of 2006 will complicate Barack Obama’s efforts to…

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Commentary

The Real Issues: Hunger, Housing, Heating Oil…and the War – Left Margin

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

The news that Spam (the kind you eat) sales were on the rise should have been enough of a tip-off, but with sales at Starbucks slackening you knew things were getting bad. The number of people applying for food stamps – by people who would never have been expected to before recently – is soaring,…

The news that Spam (the kind you eat) sales were on the rise should have been enough of a tip-off, but with sales at Starbucks slackening…

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Commentary

Obama’s Chickens Have Come Home to Roost – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

“The profound mistake of Reverend Wright’s sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It’s that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country – a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for…

“The profound mistake of Reverend Wright’s sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It’s that he spoke as if our society was…

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Commentary

Society’s Bullets

By Jessica Watson-Crosby Guest Commentator

The police are neither the lawmakers nor the lawgivers but the law enforcers. They enforce what we tell them to enforce. They are the employees of the society – its security guards. The police do not prevent crime, as we would like to believe. They investigate crimes already committed. The instructions they have are explicit…

The police are neither the lawmakers nor the lawgivers but the law enforcers. They enforce what we tell them to enforce. They are the employees of…

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Commentary

Statement on the Sean Bell Verdict

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Just in New York City alone, Wareham rattles off the murders that have defined police-”communities of color” relations over two generations: Finally, however, someone broke the silence and admitted it. Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper wrote in his book, Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing, that white…

Just in New York City alone, Wareham rattles off the murders that have defined police-”communities of color” relations over two generations: Finally, however, someone broke the…

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Commentary

The Second Death of Sean Bell

By Nicholas Powers Guest Commentator

Today the value of my life dropped. It was on a scale held by Queens State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman. In one pan were three NYPD policemen and in the other the death of Sean Bell, a young black man they shot down last year. I had gone to the funeral, had seen his…

Today the value of my life dropped. It was on a scale held by Queens State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman. In one pan were three…

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Commentary

Student Writers’ Corner – 31+11+4+3+1 = 50 Shots of Rage!

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

“This black man was shot through the heart by Police men, and they are dumb enough to think we have forgotten it. Well, a Muslim never forgets. You don’t kill our brother! We don’t ever forget! You don’t shoot one of us and then grin in our face. You don’t shoot one of us and…

“This black man was shot through the heart by Police men, and they are dumb enough to think we have forgotten it. Well, a Muslim never…

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