Issue: 798
July 18, 2019
Color of Law
Why No One Is Discussing the Rise in African Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Executive Editor
Primarily African developing nations take in 80 percent of the global refugee population, which strains these countries’ health care and water systems. Trump’s decision to cut aid to African nations, particularly those with large numbers of refugees, may exacerbate the world refugee crisis by fueling the conflicts that make migration necessary,
The subject of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border conjures images of people from Latin America, particularly Central America, who are fleeing poverty and violence. However, the…
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Cover Story
Achieving the Moon and Losing the Principled: So the US Cages Children 50 Years Later
Editorial Board
We did something back in the 1960s without the equipment and technology. Without even knowing what we would need to put a human on the Moon. It wasn’t about left or right, liberal or conservative. No one cared about asking Gene Kranz or Katherine Johnson or John Glenn or Jim Lovell or Neil Armstrong what political affiliation did they support. For it was clear these were people who lived by principles—something we lack today.
The first mission by people on Earth through space to another planetary body are unlikely ever to be lost to history, to memory, or to storytelling.…
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Commentary
Volume on Xenophobia and Racism on Blast
Editorial Board
The volume and the degree to which everyday white American citizens have called 911 on blacks for sitting at Starbucks, barbecuing in a public park, playing golf to slowly, or napping in the school lounge, to name a few, not only speaks of Trump’s vile acts as aberrant to secure his perceptions of birthright, citizenship, racial entitlement, and ownership of this country, but it speaks of and to other ordinary white Americans, too.
The first time I heard the racial trope “Go back to where you came from,” I was getting off of a school bus in a white…
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Commentary
Poverty and the Fallacy of Long-Term Economic Greatness
Editorial Board
If this is a stakeholder economy, African Americans have fewer stakes, but we don't occupy the economic periphery alone. Latinos and whites also experience poverty, but not at the disproportionate rate that African Americans do. Racism makes it possible for excessive poverty to exist! As long as some see poverty as a personal, not structural failure, it is easy (and acceptable) to demonize the poor, and even to criminalize them for their poverty.
The first week of July produced a somewhat positive Employment Situation report. While the unemployment rate ticked up just a bit, about 224,000 new jobs were…
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Commentary
Where Does the Presidency Go from Here? Only Down – Solidarity America
Columnist
This president is taking the nation further down the road to perdition that it has been traveling for some time. No, Trump is not fully responsible for the state of the nation, but he has managed to push it over the edge, as an unthinking “leader” would, if he were thinking only of himself and his own welfare.
Donald J. Trump is a racist. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is a racist. For millions of Americans, this is something as evident…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
The Voices of “Decency” Within Trump’s America are Very Quiet
Columnist
White America has a history of maltreatment, torture and genocide. As we speak they’re engaged in 21st century torture: ICE, Boarder Patrol are acting as as Trump’s Nazi Party Gestapo and SS troops.
Based solely on the deafening silence which blankets Trump’s America, the almost complete absence of protest and condemnation of a President who’ speaking on their behalf,…
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Commentary
Democrats’ 2020 Conundrum
Columnist
Democrats need to organize, organize, and organize their voters some more, as they did in 2018, if they are to have any chance of winning the Presidency, retaining the House, or reclaiming the Senate which appears as of now out of reach.
Democrats are in a bind for the 2020 elections in trying to retain the House majority, win back the Senate, and reclaim the Presidency. Given the…
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Guest Commentary
Despair and Uncertainly: Not Exclusively the Feeling of Lower Income White People
Guest Commentator
no one can deny that many lower income and poor White people (those that voted) pulled the level for Donald Trump. However, many of them voted in considerable numbers for Hillary Clinton as well. In fact, some of Donald Trump's strongest support came from voters making $75,000. or more per year. Thus, the political scenario was more complex than has been described by many who are supposedly politically in the know.
Working class people matter! This is particularly as it relates to White working class people to hear the mainstream media tell it. After his unexpected largely…
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