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Issue: 53

August 28, 2003

Commentary

Predators in the Neighborhood

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

When NAACP chairman Julian Bond denounced “payday lending,” most delegates to the civil rights group’s national convention in Miami, this summer, assumed they knew who he was talking about. “We despise this predatory practice that targets the poor, especially blacks. Charging annual interest rates of 390%, these companies prey on the weak, trapping them in…

When NAACP chairman Julian Bond denounced “payday lending,” most delegates to the civil rights group’s national convention in Miami, this summer, assumed they knew who he…

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Commentary

Racist “Transformation” Strategies

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The meaning of failure The Pirate’s mission in Iraq is doomed on its own terms. The objective of their crusade is to impose corporate terms of relationships throughout the world – their version of globalization – enforced by the U.S. military and any sepoys they can gather. Bush’s people constantly remind us that Iraq is…

The meaning of failure The Pirate’s mission in Iraq is doomed on its own terms. The objective of their crusade is to impose corporate terms of…

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Commentary

Beware the Trojan Horse

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) delivered the following speech in Detroit, Michigan on Women’s Equality Day, August 26. The “Trojan Horse” she refers to is Denise Majette, who defeated McKinney in the Democratic primary in August of last year. Political women in this room will appreciate this. Seems, my entire political career I’ve had my…

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) delivered the following speech in Detroit, Michigan on Women’s Equality Day, August 26. The “Trojan Horse” she refers to is Denise…

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Commentary

Condoleezza’s blasphemous mouth – e-Mailbox

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

It is time to stop referring to Condoleezza Rice as an intelligent person. The White House National Security Advisor is a fool and a fake intellectual; how else to explain her speech to the National Association of Black Journalists, earlier this month, in which she compared Birmingham to Baghdad, inverting the truth with a furrowed,…

It is time to stop referring to Condoleezza Rice as an intelligent person. The White House National Security Advisor is a fool and a fake intellectual;…

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