Issue: 445
Oct 13, 2011
Commentary
The “Free Market” Cannot Bring You the Revolution
Editorial Board
Who is the author of your mantra and affirmations? Who is the author of your narrative? Who speaks when you open your mouth? The “free market” gives rise to entrepreneurs of enslavement and claims to offer “change you can believe in” in a narrative so full of cash registers, stocks and bonuses, exclusive gated communities,…
Who is the author of your mantra and affirmations? Who is the author of your narrative? Who speaks when you open your mouth? The “free market”…
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Commentary
‘Columbus Day’ and the Indomitable Spirit of Everyday People
Editorial Board
Recently, the avaricious power elite of this nation celebrated the bloody, expansionist escapades of Christopher Columbus and his gang of thieves and murderers. Even as these ‘Columbus Day’ celebrations took place in the United States, many thousands of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people throughout this nation were physically occupying the symbols of…
Recently, the avaricious power elite of this nation celebrated the bloody, expansionist escapades of Christopher Columbus and his gang of thieves and murderers. Even as these…
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Commentary
Reflections from Behind the Wall – The Roots of My Life’s Work and Faith in the Future – A Luta Continua
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. BC is in contact with Mr. Turner by email and telephone. Click here to send an email message that BC can pass on…
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
Remembering Malcolm – A Personal Critique of Manning Marable’s Non-Definitive Biography of Malcolm X
Editorial Board
At the outset, I want to “make it plain” [1] that my critique of Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is political, historical, and personal—personal because I was born in Boston and grew up in the same Roxbury that Malcolm once called home. Though he was, of course, a generation older. Malcolm, Roxbury…
At the outset, I want to “make it plain” [1] that my critique of Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is political, historical, and…
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Commentary
It May Be “The Jobs, Stupid,” It’s Also “The American Wages”
Columnist
Earlier this month, a farmer in Olathe, Colorado, declared he had made a colossal mistake in trying to hire local workers to pick onions and corn and opined that American workers were getting soft. John Harold, who farms 1,000 acres in western Colorado, told the New York Times that he decided in the past year…
Earlier this month, a farmer in Olathe, Colorado, declared he had made a colossal mistake in trying to hire local workers to pick onions and corn…
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Commentary
Report from Haiti: The Death Penalty AD (After Davis) – Point Blank
Columnist
Troy Anthony Davis is finally free, but it’s not the freedom we were aiming for. He went before his time. He went during a time when black violence has finally drawn even with white violence, a time when black violence is finally closing the gap between itself and the black arrest rate. A time when…
Troy Anthony Davis is finally free, but it’s not the freedom we were aiming for. He went before his time. He went during a time when…
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Commentary
Report from Haiti: Where’s the Money? – Justice Watch
Columnist
Broken and collapsed buildings remain in every neighborhood. Men pull oxcarts by hand through the street. Women carry 5 gallon plastic jugs of water on their heads, dipped from manhole covers in the street. Hundreds of thousands remain in grey sheet and tarp covered shelters in big public parks, in between houses and in any…
Broken and collapsed buildings remain in every neighborhood. Men pull oxcarts by hand through the street. Women carry 5 gallon plastic jugs of water on their…
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Commentary
In Search of “The Great White Hope” (Again)
Columnist
The Republican Party, in all its iterations, held its breath this week in anticipation that New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, would enter the race for the 2012 Presidential Election. Christie, after taking conservatives to the brink of hope, has decided not to run. So, the search continues to try to find somebody, anybody, who can…
The Republican Party, in all its iterations, held its breath this week in anticipation that New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, would enter the race for the…
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