Issue: 797
July 11, 2019
Color of Law
White ‘Race Shifters’ Steal Hundreds of Millions in Government Contracts By Posing as Native Americans
Executive Editor
The white man has assumed the identities of Native American people for centuries in a longstanding case of cultural colonization. This exploitation has gone beyond white people “playing Indian” and creating fictional images of Native Americans to claiming they are tribal members and even spokespeople of said groups for financial gain and career advancement.
The phrase “Kill the Indian, and Save the Man” reflected the white mindset of efforts to “civilize” and “Americanize” Native Americans, forcing them to assimilate and…
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View from the Battlefield
Voting Rights is the Next Battleground – Hello to court-sanctioned gerrymandering
Editorial Board
Voting is one tool we use to participate in this so-called democracy but it’s an important one. We have seen persistent attacks on voting rights from unnecessary identification laws to illegal purging of voter rolls to trickery at the polling sites.
The U.S. Supreme Court just didn’t pass the buck on the issue of gerrymandering. It refused to carry out its duty to uphold basic constitutional protections.…
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Commentary
Running for Exposure
Editorial Board
What we must know, even at this point in July, is that all twenty-three candidates aren't running for President. At least half of them are simply running for exposure, and most of the nation is not paying attention. Can you name all 23 candidates without the use of Google? Probably not.
Twenty-three people are running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. From where I sit, at least half of them are only running…
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Commentary
Unemployment Benefits are for Union Workers, Too – Solidarity America
Columnist
Despite the “experts” telling the American people that the economy is doing fine and the president, as usual, proclaiming that it is the best economy in the history of the country, the economy is not doing so well when the reality of it is taken into consideration, especially in light of the borrowing of trillions of dollars to balance budgets.
Many outlets of the free press occasionally show their true colors: That they are boosters of their local communities, owned by oligarchs and giant corporations, or…
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Guest Commentary
“Serving Two Masters” Revisited: Derrick Bell, Joe Biden, and the Paradox of Busing
Guest Commentator
Biden collaborated closely with segregationist Senators, along with White anti-busing activists in Delaware, giving these groups some legitimacy [3]. He opposed busing remedies for de facto segregation but did not consider housing and education policies that led to such segregation.
At the first Democratic presidential debate, the exchange between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hit home for me. Harris’s poignant story about being bused when she…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Harris/Warren Unity Ticket Is the Ticket If You Have As Your Goal Saving the World
Columnist
Trump’s heartless America rewards him with his highest approval numbers of his illegit reigne of terror. His war chest is over 125 million dollars. Trump’s rank n’ file rednecks and their leadership in DC undeniably have turned a deaf ear, and blind eye and a cold-ass shoulder to cruelties which would embarrass and humiliate cave people.
Dig this: if your lone omni-important, idealistic goal is to see a White man on the Democratic ticket for the presidency, if you’re one of those…
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Commentary
NEA’s Education Forum, Biden, And 2020 Democrats
Columnist
Trump is still on track for reelection based on my composite analysis of all the available quantitative and qualitative data, but Democrats could change that if they get their political act together.
The National Education Association (NEA), perhaps unwittingly or by design, narrowed the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates at its July 5th Strong Public Schools 2020…
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Commentary
Education for What? – Worrill’s World
Columnist
In the twentieth-century, leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Carter G. Woodson, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, all spoke and wrote consistently about the need for African people to develop an education program aimed ant developing African people “to do for self.”
Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people…
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