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Issue: 715

October 12, 2017

Color of Law

Why Isn’t America Afraid of White Men?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

With white killers, there is a search for motivations. With Black and Brown suspects, no explanation or clarification is necessary, as the perpetrator’s skin color provides sufficient proof of criminality and the need for the public to fear him and everyone who looks like him.

The Las Vegas massacre is the worst mass shooting in modern American history, and the shooter is white. “Lone wolf,” authorities called him earlier this morning.…

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Deer Gear

Cartoon

Deer Gear

By Chuck Siler

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The African World

The San Juan Mayor Cries ‘Genocide’; and She’s Right

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

while the cavalier approach of Trump is demented, the larger problem facing Puerto Rico is beyond that of one, arrogant individual. Puerto Rico has been strangled economically for years through policies of austerity. It is now being driven to the brink in the aftermath of the incompetent and insensitive response by the US government to Hurricane Maria.

At what point do mainstream politicians and media commentators face the fact that we have a deranged occupant of the White House? At what point will…

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Commentary

Reaching Back to 1930s Europe for Clues about Trump’s America of 2017

By John Funiciello Columnist

even though the U.S. is only about 5 percent of the world’s population, yet uses about 25-35 percent of the world’s resources, the aggression is not about to stop.

The American people, even if they think about it and have even a slight inkling of world history, are having a hard time figuring out what…

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Commentary

The Origins of the Assault on Teachers and Public Education

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

Former President Obama and his Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whom he appointed at the Cartel’s direction, essentially set up the school privatization infrastructure that President Trump and his Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos are taking to the next level.

Public education, teachers, and the broader public sector have been victims of a systematic mugging since the 1950s which began after the Supreme Court of the…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

If Black Folks Do Love America, It’s a One-Sided Love Affair to be Sure

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I’ve got a question for Lord Trump and his rump-roast buddy, Rush Limbaugh; When has white America ever “loved” black folks? Show me , tell me the time n’ place in US History 101 when white folks loved some black folks?

God Bless America, land that I love. If black folks do love America, it's an one-sided love affair because the historical evidence, from last century to…

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