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January 21, 2010

The African World

How Quickly Will Haiti Be Forgotten?

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Do we need another column about the Haiti catastrophe? Probably not, but here it goes anyway. While watching the Haitian state collapse along with the buildings of Port-au-Prince; while watching the utter despair on the faces of thousands; while seeing the impact of being in Haiti in the expressions of US-based journalists covering the story;…

Do we need another column about the Haiti catastrophe? Probably not, but here it goes anyway. While watching the Haitian state collapse along with the buildings…

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Commentary

Crisis and Opportunity – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

Much of what I feel about the monumental crisis in Haiti is similar to the Katrina hurricane in that it was a man-made event waiting to happen. Haiti has existed in the backwater of the most powerful country in the world for 200 years as the poorest example of human hospitality. Since the defeat of…

Much of what I feel about the monumental crisis in Haiti is similar to the Katrina hurricane in that it was a man-made event waiting to…

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Commentary

Analysis: Massachusetts Arrogance

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

There are probably many reasons for the loss in Massachusetts, but what is so striking was the arrogance of the Coakley campaign taking a victory for granted in the first place. Yet the more important matter, at least for me, is that the anger that so many people feel in the USA is precisely the…

There are probably many reasons for the loss in Massachusetts, but what is so striking was the arrogance of the Coakley campaign taking a victory for…

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Commentary

Pat Roberton’s Theodicy on Haiti

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Religion-based bigotry has been the mainstay of Rev. Pat Robertson’s bully pulpit. And he mounts this pulpit as an uber-God, possessed with an inherent omniscience in knowing not only the mundane and wicked thoughts and actions of man but also in knowing the cataclysmic actions of God’s wrath on man. While scientists explain Haiti’s recent…

Religion-based bigotry has been the mainstay of Rev. Pat Robertson’s bully pulpit. And he mounts this pulpit as an uber-God, possessed with an inherent omniscience in…

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Commentary

More Pain & Suffering – A Bad Way to Start the New Year

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

The reason they’ve taken to the airwaves in January to offer you three suits for the price of one is they couldn’t sell them in December. Before the real statistics were released, the people who predict these things had pointed to an over-the-mouth increase in sales but, when all was said and done, the fall…

The reason they’ve taken to the airwaves in January to offer you three suits for the price of one is they couldn’t sell them in December.…

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Commentary

The Klan is the U.S. Government

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The freedom of the murderers is virtually guaranteed – so long as the murders have the might of the U.S. government behind them. This was the case with the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK was more than a “vigilant” group. As a preeminent organization, the KKK was not limited to southern states but consisted of…

The freedom of the murderers is virtually guaranteed - so long as the murders have the might of the U.S. government behind them. This was the…

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Commentary

Obama’s “Change:” From the Frying Pan Into the Fire

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“If the masses of people in this nation knew or had known the pertinent facts pertaining to the war mongering “we can fight the war better,” pro-apartheid Zionist, corporate Wall Street-backed, slippery tongued Barack Obama, it is doubtful that they would have been so thoroughly bamboozled and hoodwinked to their own detriment and that of…

“If the masses of people in this nation knew or had known the pertinent facts pertaining to the war mongering “we can fight the war better,”…

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Guest Commentary

Go Away! Please. – Haiti Doesn’t Need Any More Pain – Dantò’s Note

By Ezili Dantò/Marguerite Laurent Guest Commentator

“search-and-rescue operations have been intensely focused on buildings with international aid workers, such as the crushed U.N. headquarters, and on large hotels with international clientele. Some international rescue workers said they are being sent to find foreign nationals first…For better or worse, it will likely be the residents of Petionville who through their government connections,…

"search-and-rescue operations have been intensely focused on buildings with international aid workers, such as the crushed U.N. headquarters, and on large hotels with international clientele. Some…

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