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September 07, 2017

Color of Law

September 07 & 14, 2017 – Hurricane Irene Combo Issue 711 – Cover Story: White Supremacy Comes Full Circle for the Republican Party

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

This movement of white nationalists, Alt-Right, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan and others, emboldened by their crusade against ”white genocide” and empowered by Donald Trump’s policy of white grievance, represents a shift in the Republican Party that was a long time in the making.

The “Unite the Right“ rally in Charlottesville, Va. and its deadly outcome may prove a turning point in how America views white supremacist violence, rightwing extremism…

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Commentary

September 07 & 14, 2017 – Hurricane Irene Combo – Issue 711: What Happens to a Dream Deferred

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

While it appears that 45 has given dreamers some hope by delaying enforcement of DACA elimination for six months, and by making nice with Democratic leaders, the drama of dangling possibilities in front of folks and then snatching them away is typical 45 showmanship and irrationality.

Our 45th President swept into office with a foundation of racist claims. First, the very basis of his political participation was his false assertion (for which…

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The African World

September 07 & 14, 2017 – Hurricane Irene Combo – Issue 711: Is Colombia Experiencing the ‘Peace’ of the Graveyard?

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

One of the concerns raised in the peace talks that led to the demobilization of the FARC was precisely what that would mean for populations that had been targeted by the right-wing. Assurances by the Colombian government, as well as international sponsors of the peace talks, were offered that steps would be taken. Instead, the situation is deteriorating.

The South American country of Colombia was supposed to be experiencing peace. An historic agreement was brokered between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and…

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Commentary

September 07 & 14, 2017 – Hurricane Irene Combo – Issue 711: What “Men on Boats” Tells Us About American History

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

“Men on Boats” is an eye-opening and provocative comedy/drama about the polemics of white cisgender male power and privilege to conquer the wilderness girded by their unflinching God-given belief in the 19th century doctrine of Manifest Destiny to do so.

Jaclyn Backhaus’ “Men on Boats” has come to the Speakeasy Stage Company in Boston. And, for 100 minutes the audience experiences a hilariously thrilling adventure with…

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Trump BS

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Trump BS

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Commentary

September 07 & 14, 2017 – Hurricane Irene Combo – Issue 711: Supporting Racist Demonstration, Unhinged President Attacks Free Press

By John Funiciello Columnist

Trump has consistently taken the side of those who would trash the rule of law and promote values that are clearly in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

“All Ministers … who were Oppressors, or intended to be Oppressors, have been loud in their Complaints against Freedom of Speech, and the License of the…

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Commentary

September 07 & 14, 2017 – Hurricane Irene Combo – Issue 711: Racial Support for Proposed New Jersey Police Class (A1114): Analysis and Discussion

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

Prior to and during the creation of this lawmaking, there were no town hall meetings held to solicit input from constituents... Since it was passed unanimously by the New Jersey Assembly during the early summer of 2017, AB1114 has generated controversy throughout the nation with numerous publications weighing in against it.

The Farrell Report spent the month of August 2017 polling in New Jersey Counties with size able concentrations of people of color--Essex, Passaic, Bergen, Camden, Hudson,…

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Fear of Flush

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Fear of Flush

By Chuck Siler

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Guest Commentary

September 07 & 14, 2017 – Hurricane Irene Combo – Issue 711: Theodore W. Allen’s Work – On Centrality of Struggle Against White Supremacy – Growing in Importance on 98th Anniversary of His Birth

By Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry, PhD Guest Commentator

Allen challenges what he considers to be two main ideological props of white supremacy -- the argument that "racism" is innate (and it is therefore useless to challenge it) and the argument that European-American workers “benefit” from "white race" privileges and white supremacy (and that it is therefore not in their interest to oppose them).

Theodore W. “Ted” Allen (1919-2005) was an anti-white supremacist, working class intellectual and activist. He developed his pioneering class struggle-based analysis of “white skin privilege” beginning…

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