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Issue: 748

June 28, 2018

Sharp n’ Blunt

If Trump’s Cult Could Wave a Magic Burning Cross

By Desi Cortez Columnist

They’re tired of having to put on a false “color-blind” face and go through the motions of racial tolerance and inclusion. They’ve had enough of being civil and make-believing they see other races of people . . . as people.

If Trump’s cult could wave a magic burning cross . . . Good God!, Can you imagine what they might wish for? I do know exactly…

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Commentary

Examining Black Nationalism

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The Black Nationalist tradition has always been opposed to integrations, assimilation, and accommodation as a solution to the problems of people of African ancestry in America. In this regard, Black Nationalist tradition has rejected the strategy and tactics of appealing to the morality of white people and their white supremacy system.

One of the biggest challenges African people face in America is to rejuvenate Black Nationalist thinking as struggle to determine for ourselves as a people what…

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