Issue: 839
Oct 29, 2020
Color of Law
This Year’s Elections Will Decide Whether America Witnesses a Third Reconstruction
Executive Editor
The 2020 presidential election is the most consequential in modern times, as the battle lines are drawn over whether America will allow space for a multiracial democracy to grow and thrive, or revert to Whites-only rule and the authoritarianism of the plantation state.
The United States has experienced two periods of Reconstruction - in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and during the 1950s and 1960s. During these…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
November 3rd, 2020, a Day Which Will Live in Infamy if
Columnist
If we don’t defeat this last stand for “minority rule,” Black America will find itself being dragged, kickin’ n’ screamin’ back, back, back into a 21st century of some form of a neo-apartheid “separate and unequal” era.
There’s no real debate about it, I can say, without hesitation or reservation, election day 2020 will be without question the most significant, meaningful and impactful…
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Guest Commentary
Death Before Due Process in Trump’s America
Guest Commentator
Trump made clear that in his America, “law and order” means you are guilty before being proven so and can be targeted for extrajudicial assassination if those in power decide you deserve it.
The federal government’s killing of Michael Reinoehl exactly two months before the November 3 presidential race ought to have been one of the most high-profile election…
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Commentary
Is Pope Francis’s Support of Civil Unions Lip-Service?
Editorial Board
Since Francis opposes marriage equality and transgender rights, what does his pronouncement endorsing civil unions really mean?
Pope Francis has expressed support for civil unions in the Catholic Church. Once again, the pontiff has sent shockwaves across the globe to 1.3 billion of…
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Commentary
We Know What We Have to Do – Beyond the 2020 Elections
Editorial Board
If we have learned anything from the Obama years, it is that a closed mouth won’t get fed. Much as we may like Biden-Harris, we must be willing to push them.
No matter what the outcome of the 2020 election, there remains much work to do. Our economy is wrong-sided, and we have to right-side it. Our…
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Commentary
U.S. State Department Ignores Violent White Supremacists and Focuses on Palestinian Human Rights Advocates – Solidarity America
Columnist
it is the violent white supremacists, “militias,” neo-Nazis, and others who are perpetrating the violence, but they are given a free pass by the president, who has yet to condemn a single act of violence against an entire people trapped in Gaza and most of the West Bank. For Trump, they simply don’t exist.
The Trump State Department recently held a virtual conference to combat anti-Semitism, but seemingly ignored the threat to American Jews posed by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and…
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