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Issue: 518

May 23, 2013

Commentary

A Question of Who’s Doing the Stealing

By John Funiciello Columnist

While Rep. Stephen Fincher collected his farm subsidies for doing nothing, he lashed out against food stamp recipients for taking their comparative pittance of $100-$300 a month as part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

In a country where it seems the sole purpose of government is to put on a show of fake combat between the two parties, it’s getting…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Rush Limbaugh . . .President Of White America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

White Wall Street, White Main Street don’t give a damn about the boulevards of broken American Dreams.

Who Really Speaks for “White America?” Well wait, before we determine “who” - there’re those White folks who’ll hysterically contend there’s but “one America... indivisible, with…

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Commentary

The Ideas Of Black Nationalist Thinking

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

There are far too many African people in this country who think what is good for other people should be good for us.

One of the biggest challenges African people face in America is to rejuvenate Black Nationalist thinking as struggle to determine for ourselves as a people what…

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