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Issue: 611

June 18, 2015

Commentary

June 19, 2015 – BlackCommentator.com Extra: We Must Respond to the Right-wing

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

White supremacists are not restrained or constrained by the fact that the targets of their hatred may be people of faith. As far as the white supremacists are concerned, those murdered in Charleston are not worshiping the same Creator of All Things as are the white supremacists.

I never cease to be amazed by the speed and the ability of the political Right to distort the truth. The attempt by the political Right…

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View from the Battlefield

Missouri FOP Response: Empty and Weak

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

"My recommendation to the FOP is to Google 'incidents of police abuse of power' and review the nearly 33 million hits or the 5 million 'videos of police brutality.' See if any of these incidents are worthy of a response from a group which claims its mission is 'to increase the efficiency of the law enforcement profession and thus more firmly to establish the confidence of the public in the service dedicated to the protection of life and property.'”

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Texas Lifeguard

Cartoon

Texas Lifeguard

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Color of Law

How Rachel Dolezal Can Redeem Herself with Black America

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Rachel should give us her true biography and express how she fell in love with fighting for issues that affect our community. There is no question that Rachel Dolezal has fought on the frontlines of issues that are impacting African-Americans, arguably with more zeal and consistency than some black so-called leaders.

Rachel Dolezal had quite a week, perhaps unlike anyone you know, as her parents revealed that the African-American studies professor, #BlackLivesMatter activist and head of the…

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Commentary

The Transparency of an “Incog-Negro”

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Dolezal’s white-to-black “passing” is unfamiliar to most merely because those racial boundaries are not policed as strictly as “black-to-white.” Moreover, most people, black or white, cannot fathom why a racially privileged person would want to pass as a member of a marginalized group.

In trying to make sense of Rachel Dolezal, the self-identified “black” woman of two white parents, and the thought - provoking queries now raised about transracialsim…

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Guest Commentary

Police Criminals and the Brutalization of Black Girls

By Sikivu Hutchinson Guest Commentator

Socialized to see black women as chattel, thuggish police officers play on misogynist white supremacist stereotypes to justify their criminality under the color of law.

The videotaped assault and sexual harassment of 14 year-old Dajerria Becton by a rampaging white police officer after a pool party in McKinney, Texas makes it…

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Guest Commentary

The Audacity to Win: A Call for Strategy for the US Left

By Left Strategy Collective Members, Portside Guest Commentators

The strategy we are referring to relates to a struggle for power between those who own and control the economy and politics of this country, on the one hand, and the working class and vast majority of the U.S. people, on the other. For many of us, this is a struggle for our very survival and for some, a matter of life and death.

There is something bubbling beneath the surface in the US. Everyone can feel it. Everywhere there are mass actions – on issues ranging from fast food…

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Commentary

The last “caged” Black Panther, Albert Woodfox will not go

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.

The last “caged” Black Panther, Albert Woodfox is, in the words of Louisiana’s Attorney general “the most dangerous person on the planet.” Go ’head bra’ .…

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Commentary

Marcus Garvey and Education

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

If you do not know what went on before you came here and what is happening at the time you live, but away from you, you will not know the world and will be ignorant of the world and mankind.

It is quite clear that African people in America continue to be miseducated. This problem is discussed in a variety of ways in conversations everyday in…

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