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Issue: 65

November 20, 2003

Commentary

Cover Story: Black Voters and White Racists Frustrate Louisiana GOP

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

It was to have been the glorious culmination of an utterly cynical strategy. Louisiana would become the fourth state domino in less than six weeks to fall to the GOP juggernaut – only this victory would be the sweetest of all, propelling a young brown Republican into a Deep South governor’s mansion and ending forever…

It was to have been the glorious culmination of an utterly cynical strategy. Louisiana would become the fourth state domino in less than six weeks to…

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Commentary

Dean’s New Southern Strategy

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Historically, the Confederate flag is a symbol of the Democratic Party. Today, however, Republicans can fly and wave it, but Democrats can’t talk about it – and current Democrats don’t know how to handle it. As a result, the symbol Howard Dean used got in the way of his substance, but his substance was on…

Historically, the Confederate flag is a symbol of the Democratic Party. Today, however, Republicans can fly and wave it, but Democrats can't talk about it -…

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e-Mailbox: BC too rough on Sharpton

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

No sooner had we put the November 13 issue of to bed last week, believing that our Female Clarence Thomas cartoon roller coaster ride was behind us, than reader Arthur Young wrote from Orlando to say that the Republicans were at it, again. “Congratulations to your cartoonist for making the floor of the Senate. In…

No sooner had we put the November 13 issue of to bed last week, believing that our Female Clarence Thomas cartoon roller coaster ride was behind…

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Freedom Rider: The Blood-thirsty actions of a bible quoting prosecutor

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

“There aren’t any black serial killers.” This refrain was on the lips of most Americans in the fall of 2002 before two suspects were apprehended in the Washington, D.C. area sniper shootings. Black people are so accustomed to being suspect, to being thought of as the worst, that we hang on to any and every…

“There aren’t any black serial killers.” This refrain was on the lips of most Americans in the fall of 2002 before two suspects were apprehended in…

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Commentary

Starve the Racist Prison Beast

By Paul Street Guest Commentator

The following article was first published on Znet. Let me start by quoting my favorite historical personality from Indiana – the great democratic Socialist Eugene Debs, from Terre Haute. “While there is a lower class,” Debs once said, “I am of it. While there is a criminal element,” he added, “I am of it; while…

The following article was first published on Znet. Let me start by quoting my favorite historical personality from Indiana – the great democratic Socialist Eugene Debs,…

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Commentary

African Americans in Further Peril under the Patriot Act

By Tammy Johnson Director of Race and Public Policy at the Applied Research Center

The following commentary was first published in ColorLines RaceWire. Myths about the Patriot Act and how it affects the black community are downright deadly. A potent myth is that the Patriot Act only affects a tiny number of Arabs and Muslims who were rounded up immediately after Sept. 11. Some lament that immigrants are grabbing…

The following commentary was first published in ColorLines RaceWire. Myths about the Patriot Act and how it affects the black community are downright deadly. A potent…

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Commentary

GOP racial rhetoric during Senate judicial talk-a-thon shameful

By Roland S. Martin Guest Commentator

Iowa Sen. Tom Harken had a great idea for everyone at the outset of the Republicans 40 hours of “debate” over the Democratic filibuster of four of President Bush’s judicial nominees: watch ABC’s The Bachelor. Since I had some down time between shows I decided to flip over to C-SPAN2 and watch some of the…

Iowa Sen. Tom Harken had a great idea for everyone at the outset of the Republicans 40 hours of "debate" over the Democratic filibuster of four…

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