Issue: 617
July 30, 2015
Guest Commentary
If You Had a Choice of Colors – An Essay on Passing in American Life and Culture
Guest Commentator
For generations most whites have had no personal memory of those black persons who passed, because for passing to have worked, whites could not have become co-conspirators in the secret.
One incredibly manipulative white woman has done more than anyone else in recent memory to remind this country that race matters as much to black people…
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Commentary
Where Is My Black Body Safe In America?
Editorial Board
The reality of unarmed African American women being beaten, profiled, sexually violated and murdered by law enforcement officials with alarming regularity is too often ignored - especially with the focus of police brutality on African African males.
Like so many African American women, myself included, Sandra Bland’s death, resulting from police brutality is not new news. The national attention it’s receiving is, however.…
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Color of Law
Why Polls on Race Relations Ignore the Existence of Institutional Racism
Executive Editor
whites seem to think race relations are fine until another shocking video of police brutality goes viral and overtakes the 24-hour cable news cycle. No dead bodies, and it is business as usual.
As we focus on whether people think race relations are improving or getting worse, we lose sight of institutional racism. A new CBS/New York Times poll…
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View from the Battlefield
Plantation Relationships – Resisting the Stereotype of the Angry, Black Woman
Editorial Board
"If you dare assert your rights as a black person, especially a black woman, the conclusion is that you are angry - angry about your station in life, angry about everything - and you will take that anger out on anyone."
July 30, 2015 - Issue 617 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Plantation Relationships Resisting the Stereotype of The Angry, Black Woman "If you dare assert your rights…
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Commentary
Lives That Matter
Editorial Board
Black lives have been devalued since the development of our Constitution when it counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person. To proclaim that Black Lives Matter is to rebut this constitutional flaw.
It ought to be unnecessary for an activist movement to hinge on the principle of the equivalency of life. In the worlds of Democratic presidential candidates…
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Commentary
Huckabee Says U.S. “Chose Dishonor” In Coming To Iran Nuclear Agreement
Columnist
People seem to be more and more convinced that diplomacy is more effective than war and want more of the former.
It’s probably a good thing that Mike Huckabee doesn’t have any power over questions of war and peace in the Middle East, because he said this…
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Commentary
White Denial Matters
Columnist
The fact of the matter is that white lives have always mattered; it’s time for an American shift forward…the kind of change that not only hits the fan, but breaks it!
I’ve come to learn that all that is Left, isn’t always Right. That is to say, those that profess to lean left in their politics won’t…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Fear, Anger and Justifiable Paranoia Motivates The Rights Love-Affair With Guns
Columnist
White men will never ever, ever give-up their ability to defend themselves against their enemies, which in 2015 is just about the entire American “population-of-color.”
It’s a damn-good thing I speak fluent “Rednecklish.” This is the Confederate/Republican TEA-Party’s maxim; “If guns are criminalized, only criminals will have guns. I’ll never give-up…
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