Issue: 62
October 30, 2003
Commentary
e-Mailbox: The Good, Bad and Ugly
Guest Commentator
By any measurement, it’s been a helluva week for The Black Commentator. Our visitation numbers soared, astronomically – mostly, our logs show, from traffic generated by progressive web sites. It appears that less than a quarter of the tens of thousands of new visitors were soldiers in Sen. Orrin Hatch’s National Review, Free Republic or…
By any measurement, it’s been a helluva week for The Black Commentator. Our visitation numbers soared, astronomically – mostly, our logs show, from traffic generated by…
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Commentary
Freedom Rider: Third Party Candidate with a Difference
Guest Commentator
The Reverend Al Sharpton is correct when he says that there will be a shock when we witness his vote-getting abilities in the upcoming presidential primaries. I predict that he will get 90% of the black vote and larger than expected numbers of votes from other groups as well. I find it laughable that his…
The Reverend Al Sharpton is correct when he says that there will be a shock when we witness his vote-getting abilities in the upcoming presidential primaries.…
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Commentary
Propaganda War Intensifies Against Haiti
Guest Commentator
An increasing barrage of negative propaganda in the US media is softening the ground for an eventual power grab by the Washington-sponsored opposition in Haiti, the Democratic Convergence. In a series of press releases and articles over the past three months, international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and journalists have bombarded the press to justify one…
An increasing barrage of negative propaganda in the US media is softening the ground for an eventual power grab by the Washington-sponsored opposition in Haiti, the…
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Commentary
Chicago Hearings Report Rise in Racial Profiling
The first time high school student Mark Joseph left Chicago was for a trip to Washington, DC, where he visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum. The second time was this month when Joseph – the 17-year-old son of an Iraqi father and a Lebanese mother – traveled on the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride to bring attention…
The first time high school student Mark Joseph left Chicago was for a trip to Washington, DC, where he visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum. The second…
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Guest Commentary
Terror, Imperialism&the Meaning of Faith
Guest Commentator
No single act by terrorists in recent history has resulted in the devastation of relations between states, peoples and the international political order as has the destruction of the twin towers in New York and the wing of the Pentagon on September 11th 2001. The victims of that horror have been multiplied by the subsequent…
No single act by terrorists in recent history has resulted in the devastation of relations between states, peoples and the international political order as has the…
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