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Issue: 37

April 10, 2003

Commentary

From Soul Power ’68 to Pirate Power ’03

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

“To the extent that war is a contest of wills, psychology plays a tremendous role. Always does, always did. The problem with human psychology is it is exceedingly difficult to know what is going to elicit a certain type of behavior. You don’t know how you are going to behave in a stressful situation. All…

"To the extent that war is a contest of wills, psychology plays a tremendous role. Always does, always did. The problem with human psychology is it…

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Commentary

Martin Luther King

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 — the day before he was assassinated. Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy in his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself,…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 —…

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Commentary

BC Enters 2nd Year

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble e-Mail: [email protected] VoiceMail: 856.823.1739 The weekly Internet publication www.BlackCommentator.com enters its second year providing commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African Americans with the publication of issue number 37 on April 10, 2003. BlackCommentator.com published its first issue on April 5,…

News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble e-Mail: [email protected] VoiceMail: 856.823.1739 The weekly Internet publication www.BlackCommentator.com enters its second year…

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Commentary

Will Colin Powell eat his own words? – e-MailBox

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Newark-based poet Amiri Baraka acts as a surrogate for many of us when he titillates student audiences at Condoleezza Rice’s expense. We could not resist calling attention to Baraka’s characterization of Rice as a “skeeza” in a recent speech at Baltimore’s Coppin State College – a much more economical description than our own sobriquet for…

Newark-based poet Amiri Baraka acts as a surrogate for many of us when he titillates student audiences at Condoleezza Rice's expense. We could not resist calling…

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Commentary

The 2 million-person Gulag – The Issues

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The United States has reached another numerical benchmark in its unique saga of racial oppression: two million Americans incarcerated on any given day, half of them Black. Without fanfare and as a matter of daily racist practice in every hick town, suburb and urban center of the land, the U.S. has gathered up Black bodies…

The United States has reached another numerical benchmark in its unique saga of racial oppression: two million Americans incarcerated on any given day, half of them…

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