Issue: 777
February 21, 2019
Color of Law
Focus on Virginia Blackface Scandal Misses a Bigger Point
Executive Editor
When racism is rendered a historic artifact rather than a present-day reality -- or becomes a matter of individual bad actors apologizing for their racist behavior — society is let off the hook. As a result, we are not forced to grapple with the systemic discrimination in laws, policies and practices in which we all participate, and with larger issues of institutional racism that exist in employment, criminal justice and other aspects of American life.
(CNN) The blackface scandal that has ensnared three of Virginia's top officials provides an opportunity for America to address its long legacy of racism. There's a…
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Commentary
White Privilege And Black Power: Ilhan Omar Checks Elliott Abrams
Editorial Board
Old white men can hold onto their privilege, but younger women, some women of color, aren't' having it. They are doing what they need to do to provide for the people who elected them.
Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is a member of Congress. Let me repeat that. Ms. Omar is a member of Congress. So how dare Elliot Abrams, 45's nominee…
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Commentary
A New and Just Story to Replace Capitalism
Editorial Board
capitalism in America, make no mistake, is nothing short of the promotion of its citizen's acceptance of cruelty and indifference. Going about our business while ignoring the suffering of others struggling to survive within a mileu of systemic injustice, isn't pursuing a life worth living.
accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its own…
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Commentary
Americans are Being Poisoned and Charged a Fortune for the Cure – Solidarity America
Columnist
One example of the way people are being sickened is to study the statistics of ground water and the pollution of that water and the water that is taken from lakes and rivers. There is little to drink that has not been tainted by various chemicals, most of which are there without the peoples' knowledge.
There is a connection between the degradation of the human environment and the cost of the medications that will mitigate, if not cure, the maladies caused…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
This Sign Will Hang Upon Trump’s Wall: “No Niggers/Spics/No Jews or Dogs”
Columnist
These type signs used to be posted all over the South and Southwest US for decades, and up North . . . they may not have been posted - nevertheless the sentiment was enforced by unspoken laws.
Here’s exactly and precisely the wording Emperor Trump’s demented and bigoted adviser, Stephen Miller is advising be on the signs they post on the wall they’d…
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View from the Battlefield
Colin Kaepernick: Moving the Goal Post Forward
Editorial Board
In the spirit of a few Black athletes before him, Kaepernick has used his status to elevate an issue that white America continues to ignore and earnestly take on—the issue of race. He added his voice to the national debate about the treatment of Black and Brown people by so-called law enforcers. He took on the powerful NFL and won. Whether Kaepernick gets an NFL contract or not, his place in the struggle for human dignity and racial justice is noteworthy.
I want to bring together two seemingly unrelated recent rulings. The National Football League settled with former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Three white Chicago…
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Commentary
My Love for African People – Worrill’s World
Columnist
I love African people because I understand that the creative force of the universe has endowed us to make the great contributions we have made and continue to make to the world.
The remembrance of our ancestors and their redemption, our continued oppression in America inspires me to re-acknowledge my love for African people. This inspiration and love…
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