Issue: 41
May 8, 2003
Commentary
The forbidden word, revealed – e-MailBox – Issue 40
Guest Commentator
The Black Commentator has been dogging Condoleezza Rice for almost the entire life of this publication, beginning with our backhanded salutes to NAACP Image Award winner Rice and Latino media luminary Geraldo Rivera as “credits to their race.” (“Condoleezza and Geraldo – A fine pair,” May 8, 2002.) We mean her no good, just as…
The Black Commentator has been dogging Condoleezza Rice for almost the entire life of this publication, beginning with our backhanded salutes to NAACP Image Award winner…
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Commentary
Bush’s Harvest of Shame – Cover Story
Guest Commentator
An American kind of Hell is quickly descending on the poorest Black children, nearly one million of whom now live in “extreme poverty,” according to a study by the Children’s Defense Fund. Most disturbingly, desperate poverty among African Americans under 18 years of age has increased 50 percent since 1999. Newly reviewed census data show…
An American kind of Hell is quickly descending on the poorest Black children, nearly one million of whom now live in "extreme poverty," according to a…
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Black Spinelessness in High Places
Guest Commentator
Washington DC Mayor Anthony A. Williams personifies the rot that masquerades as New Black Leadership, corporate style. Defying the demonstrated wishes of an overwhelming majority of DC voters, and in return for nothing but a smile from George Bush’s public school-hating Black Education chief, Rod Paige, Mayor Williams crumbled in a pitiful heap of quivering…
Washington DC Mayor Anthony A. Williams personifies the rot that masquerades as New Black Leadership, corporate style. Defying the demonstrated wishes of an overwhelming majority of…
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Lieberman seeks crossover GOP in SC – The Issues
Guest Commentator
The corporate media’s true function in the American political system was never more clear than in the May 5 edition of the New York Times. Adam Nagourney, a senior political reporter trusted to represent the newspaper’s professional values, began his “Political Memo” piece: Nagourney then proceeded to delineate the opposing Democratic camps, comprising six of…
The corporate media's true function in the American political system was never more clear than in the May 5 edition of the New York Times. Adam…
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