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February 26, 2009

Commentary

Eric Holder Speaks the Truth / Things Fall Apart – The Substance of Truth

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

-Bob Marley, War, Rastaman Vibration (1976) It’s unclear what was slipped into Mr. Holder’s drink last Wednesday, as he delivered his landmark address, but he spoke the unbridled truth, and will probably have to pay for doing so. Though faulty in some of its assumptions about Black people, the majority of his lecture strung notes…

-Bob Marley, War, Rastaman Vibration (1976) It’s unclear what was slipped into Mr. Holder’s drink last Wednesday, as he delivered his landmark address, but he spoke…

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Guest Commentary

Zimbabwe Ten Years On: Results and Prospects

By Sam Moyo & Paris Yeros Guest Commentators

After a decade of political polarisation and international stand-off, the debate on Zimbabwe has finally been opened up to a wider reading public, thanks to Mahmood Mamdani’s “Lessons of Zimbabwe”, appearing in the London Review of Books (04/12/2008). Renowned scholars, within and without Africa, have broken their silence and have taken public positions. The debate…

After a decade of political polarisation and international stand-off, the debate on Zimbabwe has finally been opened up to a wider reading public, thanks to Mahmood…

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Commentary

Downsizing the Best – Right Out the Door

By John Funiciello Columnist

An airline pilot with many years of experience and skill and a whole lot of grace under pressure last month did what was considered by many to have been impossible: he ditched a plane in the January-cold Hudson River at New York City and lost not a single one of the 155 passengers and crew…

An airline pilot with many years of experience and skill and a whole lot of grace under pressure last month did what was considered by many…

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Guest Commentary

Color-Blind, Power-Oblivious: – Eric Holder and the Whitewashing of Racism

By Tim Wise Guest Commentator

It was all too predictable that Attorney General Eric Holder would be attacked for his recent remarks about race in America. To suggest that the nation is still haunted by the specter of racism is unacceptable it seems, especially since, with the election of President Obama, we have ostensibly entered the “post-racial” era. But in…

It was all too predictable that Attorney General Eric Holder would be attacked for his recent remarks about race in America. To suggest that the nation…

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