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July 31, 2003

Commentary

The Debate on Zimbabwe Will Not Be Throttled

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

George Bush doesn’t want you to talk about empowering the people of Africa – and neither do some African Americans. Issuing thinly veiled threats, these individuals and organizations appropriate to themselves the colors Red, Black and Green, and label as treasonous all Black criticism of their current Strong Man of choice, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.…

George Bush doesn’t want you to talk about empowering the people of Africa – and neither do some African Americans. Issuing thinly veiled threats, these individuals…

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Commentary

The DLC’s National White Man’s Conversation

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

White men are terrified of them – which explains why the poor fellows get all confused and vote against their own interests every time it is imagined that they – “special interests,” Blacks, unions, and the dangerous people who call for health care, jobs, peace and justice – are about to intrude on the “national…

White men are terrified of them – which explains why the poor fellows get all confused and vote against their own interests every time it is…

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Commentary

Bush Uses IRS To Push Around Poor People

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

It is hard enough to work every day and still remain poor. Heavier still is the burden thrust upon the working grandmothers, aunts and uncles who struggle to hold together extended families in the relentlessly hostile environment of Bush’s America, by caring for the children. Yet it is these struggling families that the Bush men…

It is hard enough to work every day and still remain poor. Heavier still is the burden thrust upon the working grandmothers, aunts and uncles who…

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Commentary

Hip-Hop Hits Back – e-Mailbox

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Dr. Martin Kilson has placed his mark on many lives – and on The Black Commentator, as well. Kilson, a Frank G. Thomson Research Professor at Harvard and the first Black to be awarded full tenure at the institution, in 1968, was also the first Guest Commentator for . Kilson aptly characterized Newark mayoral candidate…

Dr. Martin Kilson has placed his mark on many lives – and on The Black Commentator, as well. Kilson, a Frank G. Thomson Research Professor at…

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Commentary

No safety without peace, no peace without change

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) delivered the following speech to the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation organizers conference, Washington, DC, July 19. On October 25, 2001 I stood at the United States Capitol House Triangle with individuals from walks of life much different than my own. But we all shared one thing in…

Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) delivered the following speech to the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation organizers conference, Washington, DC, July 19. On October…

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