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January 19, 2017

Color of Law

Donald Trump and His Cabinet are Waging a War on Black People

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

as Trump cuts our government jobs and shuts down our schools for a buck, he will make sure that we have sufficient number of police officers to bash in the heads of black men, women and children, and bullets to rip through their bodies as their corpses are left sitting in the middle of the street.

For Donald Trump and his Republican cohorts in Congress, part of the effort to “Make America Great Again” includes waging a war on government as a…

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Commentary

A Paradigm Shift – Creative Disruption!

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

We play ourselves cheap when we moan and whine. The time for whining is over now. This is the time for a paradigm shift in the way we respond to institutional stupidity. This is the time for us to consider creative disruption whenever, wherever, and however. What does that mean? Let’s channel the energy of the Poor People’s Campaign. Let’s show up in those federal offices. Let’s carry demands; let’s ball up our fists. Let’s get it on!

When Dr. Martin Luther King envisioned the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, he envisioned all kinds of people descending on our nation’s capital, bringing demands to…

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Commentary

Betsy DeVos’s Confirmation Hearing to be Education Secretary

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

She is for guns in schools, vouchers and corporate charter schools, and unbridled school choice with no public oversight. She and other members of the education reform Cartel remain devoted to their belief that the choice options that they have concocted for the parents of low-income children, mostly of color, are best for inner city students.

Expanded techniques to open up the financial flood gates of public education to education reform Cartel members. Meanwhile, Bill Gates, a leading Cartel Member, after meeting…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

If It Looks, Walks And Talks Like A Klansman

By Desi Cortez Columnist

It’s as simple as it seems - Trump is what he appears to undeniably be, a by-product of White hatred, anger, resentment, envy and false illusions of an superior grandiose All-American White culture.

If it looks, walks n’ talks like a half-mad vengeful Klansman . . . forgive me, but I’m going to believe my lying eyes n’ ears…

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Commentary

Running the Country Like a Business

By John Funiciello Columnist

government is not a business and it can’t be run like one. Businesses are in it to make money, to make a profit. The only profit that government should be interested in is how an efficiently run government can profit (benefit) all of the people. That’s not what Trump is about, but that’s what his supporters are wishing he will do for them, especially those on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.

This quote has been attributed to Balzac, the 19th Century French novelist, writer, and critic, and his observations of societies in that century and beyond have…

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Commentary

The New President is Actually a Rich White Guy Who Acts Like a Poor, Burned-Out White Guy: So Now What? – Point Blank

By Chris Stevenson Columnist

Reagan wasn’t my favorite President, but he would have concluded Putin to be full of poop, as would Nixon, Ford, Carter, Kennedy, Roosevelt and Ike. What’s Trump’s problem? Try mental illness.

There are too many people [with] finite minds and beliefs, [who] have too much control over the infinite possibilities of the United States of America. DL…

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