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June 30, 2011

Cover Story

What Will It Take to Bring Obama Home? – Manipulating Obama – Moving Left – Part 14

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Note: This commentary is in place of Dr. Samad’s “Between the Lines” column. The reelection bid of President Barack Obama has posed some interesting dilemmas for those who helped push the change agenda. The change agenda has evolved into a manipulation agenda, whereby everybody has a new demand for the President. The new demand is…

Note: This commentary is in place of Dr. Samad’s “Between the Lines” column. The reelection bid of President Barack Obama has posed some interesting dilemmas for…

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Color of Law

Harmful Policies are Giving All Americans A Black Experience – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Whenever you take a look at a bad law that is on the books, or a policy that the government has put into place, you can bet that someone paid for that. And in this most horrid of political seasons, you’d better believe that attached to each deplorable piece of legislation is a sales receipt.…

Whenever you take a look at a bad law that is on the books, or a policy that the government has put into place, you can…

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Commentary

A Warmongering Transgressor in the White House?

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Fist clinched! Raving, as in raving mad! Ranting and angry! Horns sprouting and eyes roving and glaring! (And crying, too!). What an imagination but by no means original! Corporate publishers, cinema and news moguls have succeeded in the last 30 years to fix this image of the transgressor. In the old days, it was the…

Fist clinched! Raving, as in raving mad! Ranting and angry! Horns sprouting and eyes roving and glaring! (And crying, too!). What an imagination but by no…

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Commentary

Theatre of the Absurd: We Have to Stop Being Caged Hamsters!

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The imagery of the caged hamster, endlessly running round and round on a squeaky spinning wheel going nowhere, is perhaps the most accurate summation of the dangerous and sad state of political affairs that ensnares everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation. We have a corporate-stream media that has shamelessly abdicated…

The imagery of the caged hamster, endlessly running round and round on a squeaky spinning wheel going nowhere, is perhaps the most accurate summation of the…

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Commentary

Tracy Morgan’s Homophobic Rant is About Black Manhood

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

While I will continue to argue that the African American community doesn’t have patent on homophobia, it does, however, have a problem with it. And Tracy Morgan, comedian and actor on NBC’s “30 Rock,” is another glaring example of the malady. During a standup performance this month at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, Morgan’s…

While I will continue to argue that the African American community doesn't have patent on homophobia, it does, however, have a problem with it. And Tracy…

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Commentary

Reflections from Behind the Wall – Anatomy of a Frame Up – Chapter 2 – Keystone Cops Strike Again – A Luta Continua

By Chuck Turner Editorial Board

Note: BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Chuck Turner is writing this column from the U.S. Federal Prison in Hazelton, West Virginia where he is serving a three year term for a bribery conviction. In last week’s first installment of Anatomy of a Frame Up, I outlined my background and lifetime of service. My purpose was to…

Note: BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Chuck Turner is writing this column from the U.S. Federal Prison in Hazelton, West Virginia where he is serving a three…

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Commentary

Bachmann Sees U.S. Low Wage Workers Part of Nation’s Woes

By John Funiciello Columnist

As if the low-wage workers of America aren’t having a hard enough time making ends meet, Rep. Michelle Bachmann has now said that she would favor doing away with the minimum wage, if it would help to eliminate the nation’s economic troubles. Minimum wage workers and all low-wage workers are at the bottom of the…

As if the low-wage workers of America aren’t having a hard enough time making ends meet, Rep. Michelle Bachmann has now said that she would favor…

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