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Issue: 38

April 17, 2003

Commentary

Conspiracy Theories

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Americans are now forced to do what they find hardest in life: consider that the world does not revolve around them, that they are secondary players on the global stage. The fate of the United States is in the hands of other peoples, in other nations, whose strategies of resistance to the Bush men’s transparent…

Americans are now forced to do what they find hardest in life: consider that the world does not revolve around them, that they are secondary players…

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Commentary

The stealth war on the poor – The Issues

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Evincing a depraved indifference to homo sapiens as a species, the United States last week oversaw the erasure of the evidence of 5,000 years of human civilization – a crime from which humanity cannot recover. Although certainly not their final act of barbarism, the burning of the Baghdad Museum and the Iraqi National Library under…

Evincing a depraved indifference to homo sapiens as a species, the United States last week oversaw the erasure of the evidence of 5,000 years of human…

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Commentary

Bush’s Other Declaration of War – RE-PRINT

By Tammy Johnson Director of Race and Public Policy at the Applied Research Center

Re-printed from RaceWire (The italicized words are from President Bush’s address to the nation, March 17, 2003. The expanded remarks are the author’s.) My fellow citizens, it is my grave duty to inform you that here in the homeland, we find ourselves in a state of war. The enemies of prosperity, meritocracy, and freedom have…

Re-printed from RaceWire (The italicized words are from President Bush's address to the nation, March 17, 2003. The expanded remarks are the author's.) My fellow citizens,…

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Commentary

HIP HOP’S (UNSPOKEN) TEN COMMANDMENTS- RE-PRINT

By Stephanie Mwandisi Gadlin

Reprinted from Davey D’s FNV Newsletter Famed Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiongo once remarked: “…Language carries culture and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the entire body of values by which we perceive ourselves and our place in the world.” Interesting perspective. If language carries a people’s culture and therefore projects a people’s cultural…

Reprinted from Davey D's FNV Newsletter Famed Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiongo once remarked: "...Language carries culture and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the…

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Commentary

Tracking Black youth to prison – e-MailBox

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

We begin with two letters that arrived like gifts from the blue amid the ghastly events and statistics of last week – welcome reminders that serendipity, like luck, is not to be treated lightly. While printing out information from your site for a school project I’m doing about Blacks against the war I went to…

We begin with two letters that arrived like gifts from the blue amid the ghastly events and statistics of last week - welcome reminders that serendipity,…

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