Issue: 831
Sept 03, 2020
Color of Law
The Not-So-Hidden Racism Behind Mispronouncing Kamala Harris’s Name
Executive Editor
Just like they did to Obama, the Republicans are turning the senator and Democratic vice-presidential nominee into the “other,” the “foreigner” with the funny-sounding name. Considering the source, that is predictable. And that is 100% unadulterated racism.
Why is it that Republicans and conservatives in the GOP bubble can’t seem to properly pronounce Kamala Harris’ name, or don’t seem to care what they…
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Guest Commentary
The Conventions: An Inclusive Tent vs. Rancid Xenophobia
Guest Commentator
The Democrats decided to promote an inclusive tent filled with a potpourri of diversity. The Republicans chose to employ nationalism and right-wing populism venomously laced with rancid xenophobia to scare the wits out of certain segments of White voters.
Now that both political parties have concluded their conventions, pundits, politicians, columnists, plain janes, and average joes are all weighing in with their analyses. Joe Biden…
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Commentary
Lawlessness and Disorder: America’s Mistreatment of its Black Citizens
Editorial Board
For too many Black people, law and order means lawlessness and disorder. Nobody at the RNC bothered to mention this history of lawlessness while disparaging peaceful protesters.
When a seventeen-year-old white boy walks down the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, with a loaded automatic weapon, he is cheered and thanked by the police and…
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Guest Commentary
The Black Led “Defund the Police” Movement Wins Great Breakthrough in Los Angeles
Guest Commentator
The police around the country are organizing a white and right backlash. The United States has more than 850,000 paid and armed police who, through police unions, police political associations and police contributions to and threats against elected officials are a political army to fight for police political power.
"Los Angeles Cuts School Police Budget by $25 million" June 30, 2020 L.A. Times Headline At 11 PM on Tuesday June 30—after 13 hours of public…
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Guest Commentary
50th Anniversaries of Struggle and The Trump Era
Guest Commentator
We have a tradition of struggle in this nation of fighting for economic, political, social and environmental justice to bring an end to the systematic and systemic oppression that sustains Black, Brown, Native and other people’s subjugation.
As I reflect on the 50th anniversary of the August 29th Chicana/o moratorium this year, I think of the history of struggle in this nation by…
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Commentary
When Black Lives Don’t Matter – There’s Not A Damn Thing Awesome in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Editorial Board
Don’t talk about race. Or anything that calls attention to you as a Black person, and while you maneuver the terrain that is Kenosha, Wisconsin, please keep even informed opinions to yourself so as to not raises the anger of whites who will punish you—with impunity—because power is wrapped so tightly around their skin that it is one and the same thing, isn’t it?
Blacks have never been free in this country, a country in which, never was it intended that they should be free, and the spectre of so…
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Commentary
It’s Telling Who Trump Honors as “Patriots” at the Time of Their Passing – Solidarity America
Columnist
Trump doesn’t like to be crossed and he insists that he is the “least racist person” that you’d find in the country, but it’s all in his mind. His actions and words give it the lie.
Despite what the American people have heard at the Republican National Convention last week, there was one thing that was missing from just about all of…
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