July 02, 2015
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The flags and monuments may come down but the neo-Confederate movement is still there. They are still generally not known to the public and they are still having an enormous impact.
PROLOG It is Saturday morning and the media has stopped calling. I have my reference material piled on tables and the ironing board which I am…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Those who embrace the Confederacy seem to forget that THE CONFEDERACY LOST. The cornerstone principle of White supremacy was defeated when the Confederacy lost the war, but the losing Confederacy left us with all kinds of tributes to United States traitors.
If you drive South on US 95, you can see some version of the so-called Confederate flag (there are maybe seven iterations of the flag, parts…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Norman spoke out against racism in America and in his native Australia, where Aboriginal people were first counted in the census the year before, had been given the right to vote only three years earlier, and were forcibly removed from their families under a White Australia policy.
In these days of #BlackLivesMatter , #HandsUpDontShoot, #ICantBreathe, #TakeDownTheFlag and #WhoIsBurningBlackChurches, new movements are brewing and people are searching for ways to do their part to…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Seize the time . . . with the Confederate Battle flag under attack, gay people out-of-the bedroom closet and today standing in our houses of worship, now able to legally marry - the time is now.
President Obama had an “amazing” homecoming . . . down in the Land-of-Dixie, Charleston that is. (BC has archived a copy of the video of the…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
democracy can only begin to work when those relegated to the fringes of society can begin to sample what those in society take for granted as their inalienable right. The right to marry regardless of a couple’s sexual orientation or gender identity is now one of them.
For some time now, my spouse and I have been bickering over where we should reside in our retiring years. She, being a child from the…
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Commentary
Columnist
Reparations simply means repair for injuries, harm and damages. As it has been pointed out, over and over again, we were made chattel and worked for more than three-hundred years without pay or other compensation for the value of our labor.
At this current stage of history in the African (Black) Liberation Movement, it is important that key concepts be revisited and re-discussed in our continued efforts…
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