717 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

2017 NJ and VA Governor Elections: Bellwethers for 2018 Mid-Terms and Public Education

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

New Jersey and Virginia were the first proxies in this battle royal to prevent the corporate Cartel from the mass privatization of public-sector institutions. However, a closer analysis of the aforementioned victories reveals remaining problems of political decision making and organizing that Democrats must address in these states if they are to have success in the future.

The results are in. The Democrats have swept the 2017 gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, much needed victories to push back against the Trump…

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Rodent Head

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Color of Law

Is Military Service a Factor in Turning People into Mass Shooters?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

“Since 2002, soldiers and veterans have been committing murder individually and in groups, killing wives, girlfriends, children, fellow soldiers, friends, acquaintances, complete strangers, and — in appalling numbers — themselves,”

The most recent mass shooting in America, in which Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire on First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas — killing 26 and…

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Commentary

John Kelly Needs a History Lesson on the Civil War

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

If Kelly knew his Civil War history he would know that Robert E. Lee was not a supporter of the Lost Cause mythology. When the war ended Lee refused to be buried in his Confederate uniform and asked followers to put their flags away because displaying them as a form of defiance would be an act of treason.

Boston-born White House chief of staff John Kelly’s recent remark on Laura Ingraham’s new Fox News show reopened a divide so deep in this country about…

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Commentary

Class and Crass

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

In his entire eight years of service, President Obama never disparaged his predecessor, President George W. Bush, even as he cleaned up some of his messes. In his several months of leadership, 45 has missed no opportunity to criticize President Obama.

I never thought I would miss our 43d President, George W. Bush. And I’ve never much thought of him as a great, or even good, speaker.…

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A Song to Me

By Chuck Siler

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Commentary

American People are Watching the Horse Race, Not the Fire Behind Them

By John Funiciello Columnist

Corporate-run media outlets are, and should be, blamed in large part for the concentration on the horse race and not on the issues important to society, but the biggest share of the blame goes to the politicians, whose concentration on continuing their flow of money from corporations and the rich prevents them from addressing the dire need of the people to see a little slice of the federal discretionary budget.

The reportage of this week’s election shows clearly that the American electorate is once again concentrating on the horse race of electoral politics, rather than on…

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Guest Commentary

Statutory Illegitimacy and Mandatory Sentencing: The White Majority’s Impact on Racial Disparity in the Administration of Justice and the Maintenance of While Supremacy

By Robert Saleem Holbrook, Human Rights Coalition, Amistad Law Project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Guest Commentator

While the mention of white supremacy often brings to mind images of hooded men in white robes brandishing burning crosses, that is not white supremacy. That is white racism. White supremacy implies white maintenance and domination of the political, economic and cultural institutions if the United States for the benefit, directly or indirectly, of the majority white populace.

More than twenty years ago Professor Lani Guinier coined the term "tyranny of the majority” 1 to define how ethnic minorities within white majoritarian democracies (majority…

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Commentary

Public Schools and the African Centered Curriculum

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

it focuses on teaching the truth concerning the contributions of African people to the development of civilization in all subjects. We must to heighten the dialogue concerning the importance of this movement, particularly as it relates to the question of reparations.

The movement to implement an appropriate African Centered Curriculum in predominately African in America inner city schools is critical to the on–going struggle for the liberation…

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Stop the Wall

By Carlos Latuff

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