612 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

Hillary Clinton Must ExplainThe Praising of a Group of KKK Supporters – A BlackCommentator.com Investigative Report

By David A. Love Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher

In her quest for the presidency, the U.S. Senator from New York has presented herself as a qualified expert on civil rights and a participant in the civil rights movement.

Now Senator Hillary Clinton (D, NY) has some explaining to do. BlackCommentator.com has learned that Bill Clinton, while president, repeatedly praised the United Daughters of the…

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Art

Burn the Flag of the Slaveholders’ Rebellion

By Chuck Siler

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Guest Commentary

Can Charleston offer us a chance for change?

By Dr. Carlos E. Russell, PhD Guest Commentator

White America, in my view, has chosen to delude itself into believing that it can cast the first stone. It is psychologically too painful to do otherwise; and Black America has permitted itself to be bamboozled into the false notion that, with Obama’s victory for example, we now live in a post racial society.

From the above it is clear, ideologically speaking, that it is here in the U.S.A where I became a MAN and learned “why the caged bird…

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Color of Law

The Flag and Roof Are Symptons Not the Disease

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Institutional racism is a system of white skin privilege and white supremacy that benefits preferred members through specific policies and rigs the game against outsiders.

However, as much as we are paying attention to this madman and a Rebel flag which defended slavery, segregation and lynching — and we should —…

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View from the Battlefield

Denmark Vesey was a terrorist but Dylann Roof is not?

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

"This country cannot survive when one sector of the society is violently restricted from attaining their human and civil rights. History has shown us that where there’s repression, there will always be resistance."

June 25, 2015 - Issue 612 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Denmark Vesey Was a Terrorist But Dylann Roof Is Not? "This country cannot survive when one…

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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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Cartoon

Mindset

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

It’s Time to Sidestep Political Correctness and have a Dialogue on Race

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

While many whites have confessed their aversion to such a dialogue, stating that while a cultural defense of "white guilt" plays a role in their reticence, so too does their cultural fear of "black rage" for inadvertently saying the wrong thing.

American novelist William Faulkner wrote in his 1951 novel “Requiem for a Nun,” “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” As we all try…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

What Have Black Folks Done to Evoke Such Blind-Hatred?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

there needs to be not necessarily an apology but a cultural "confession" leading to a much-needed "reformation." White bigotry and the resulting discrimination isn’t a figment of the imagination of the nation’s non-White population.

I’ve a honest legitimate question to lay on the table, and I submit it to apparently millions of White Americans: “Why do you so hate Black…

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Commentary

The Dust Clouds of Charleston

By Perry Redd Columnist

White males are the ones who created this system of death, destruction, injustice and inequality. You cannot expect them to repair it. That’s our job.

Now that the shooting is over and the Kumbaya moment is waning, real issues are hitting the fan. As always, boot-wearing cowboys kickin’ up dust…so that…

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Issue: 612