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Issue: 745

June 07, 2018

Cover Story

Ain’t I a Woman: The Historic Attack on African American Women

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

When a people are systematically dehumanized, they can be treated as lesser, inferior beings. When people are compared to monkeys, apes, gorillas, they are being described as less evolved than other human beings, as people who deserve less. When this extends to women, we are both dehumanized and defeminized.

The stupidly foul and racist comedienne Roseanne Barr is as insignificant as a single drop of rain in a thunderstorm and so, on one hand, she…

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Guest Commentary

Rosanne Barr Should Have Known Better and Probably Did By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD, BC Guest Commentator Rosanne Barr Should Have Known Better and Probably Did

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

ABC knew what they were getting when they entered into a partnership with Barr. It was not as if they were blindsided by a new up-and-coming novice who suddenly threw them a curve ball. Roseanne Barr is a veteran Hollywood celebrity who is known for her crass, crude, acerbic, frequently volatile disposition. She is brash, routinely belligerent, foul mouthed and embodies a take-no-prisoner persona.

On May 29th, controversial comedian Roseanne Barr was terminated by ABC and her revised, updated sitcom was cancelled. Unless you were comatose all last week, you…

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Commentary

Roseanne Barr, Don Imus and Jimmy the Greek

By Sharon Kyle, JD Editorial Board

Starbucks and MSNBC and any other organization attempting to take actions they feel will bridge the racial divide should be applauded. But ultimately we all must come to the realization that we are all being played.

Rosanne Barr’s racist comment got a lot of attention this week but we’ve seen this story before. Some of us remember Don Imus with his “nappy-headed…

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Color of Law

American Fascism is Attacking Migrant Children

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Between May 9 and May 15, 658 children were separated from their parents, who were then referred for prosecution. Undocumented parents who have been separated from their children are forced to wear yellow bracelets, eerily reminiscent of the yellow badges the Nazis forced Jews to wear.

If a nation is judged by the way it treats children, the United States should stand condemned. The latest manifestation of US President Donald Trump's racism…

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Commentary

The Tragedy That is in the White House in 2018

By John Funiciello Columnist

Across the political spectrum and across the world there has been condemnation of the slaughter of Palestinians and the wounding of so many hundreds more, but that will not stop future slaughters of people who are demanding what is rightfully theirs, return to their homes and what were once their villages. It will happen as long as the likes of Trump officially condone and support such actions.

America has its own Nakba and it is living in the White House. The Nakba, among the Palestinian people is the ethnic cleansing of Palestine when…

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Commentary

Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Doesn’t Crumple Our Opponents

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

While the Justices did not grant a license to discriminate against LGBTQ Americans blatantly, I, like so many in our community, was hoping the case would render once and for all a cease-and-desist order; thus, resolving the God versus Gay rights dispute for those who want to codify discrimination against us under the guise of religious freedom.

A pall hung over me on June 4. The Supreme Court ruled in "Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission” in favor of Jack Phillips, the…

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The African World

The Republicans, Dr. Frankenstein & the Monster

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

For years there was an alliance between the Republican Establishment and this right-wing populist movement because the right-wing populist movement served the interests of the Republican Establishment in demanding tax cuts, attacking affirmative action, pushing back on women’s rights and going after Democrats. At the end of the day, the Republican Establishment believed that they could keep control over this growing movement, in much the same way that Dr. Frankenstein believed that he could control the Monster.

The sick and pathetic nature of today’s Republican Party really hit me in connection with the attacks on Senator John McCain. Don’t get me wrong, I…

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Commentary

‘Educators Spring’ vs. Trump’s Public Education Privatization

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

Participants in the ‘Educators Spring’ of teacher advocacy are also beset by the education violence of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos who is attacking teachers’ performance and professionalism and public schools as institutions. She has refused to enforce discrimination statues in K-12 education.

In the aftermath of Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet about former Obama top aide, Valerie Jarrett, being a “product of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the…

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