Issue: 786
April 25, 2019
Color of Law
EMS Workers, Paramedics are Less Likely to Give Black Patients Pain Medication
Executive Editor
according to a 2016 University of Virginia study, researchers came to the disturbing realization that doctors are more likely to prescribe pain medication to white patients than to Black patients because they believe Black people do not feel pain in the same way.
EMS workers may be undermining the care of Black patients. In a most recent example of racism and unconscious bias in the health profession, a study…
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Cover Story
Who Gains When Democracy Is Destroyed?
Editorial Board
Democracy dies when tyrants prevail, and when we have seen a prevaricator, a provocateur, a philistine, and a panderer occupy the Oval Office. Why? Because predatory capitalists gain from the elevation of a braggadocious tyrant who, while feeding their bottom line, is behaviorally uncontrollable.
Democracy is defined as the government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”. Who are the people who support our contemporary status quo?…
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Commentary
Reparations Part II – Beneficiaries of the Slave Trade, Still
Editorial Board
if you say to Americans today, this is history, not just black history, but American history, the only history of America worth it’s salt, the hate pours forth. You become a pariah.
read all parts of this series Merchants increased cargoes by laying enslaved people on their sides, chest to back, with little more than a couple of…
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Commentary
U.S. Collusion in the Killing of Central American Indigenous, Peasants, Environmentalists Must Stop – Solidarity America
Columnist
The history of the U.S. in this hemisphere is there for anyone to see and learn from, but this is not going to happen, as long as white nationalists and others of a white supremacist bent are given space and, to some degree, respectability by the president and his sycophants-in-charge.
There is a rather simple solution to the masses of humanity seeking asylum in the U.S., and that would be to stop oppressing the people of…
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Commentary
Milwaukee’s School Choice Links to Sen. Cory Booker
Columnist
The wave of teacher activism sweeping the nation, in the wake of assaults on teachers and public education and Booker’s participation in them should send him packing in the presidential primaries sooner rather than later. Educators need to remind Booker of who he actually is—a front for the Cartel lobby for the privatization of K-12 public education. It can start in Milwaukee.
It is ironic that Sen. Cory Booker visited Milwaukee a few weeks after the indictment of Dr. Michael Bonds, former Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) Board President…
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Commentary
Remembering the Durban 400 – Worrill’s World
Columnist
Although the language of the Durban Declaration did not specifically call for reparations for African people, it is now our duty to intensify our organizing in demanding the United States Government and U. S. Corporations pay reparations. We must continue to educate the African Community of America on the continued need to organize and revitalize the Reparations Movement.
It has been almost eighteen years since the historic United Nations World Conference Against Racism took place in Durban, South Africa. We always should remember the…
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