858 – Black Commentator

Color of Law

Black Trauma: America Must Move From Racial Reckoning to an All-Out War on White Supremacy

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Most certainly, we will remember the year of the pandemic as an inflection point, a pivotal time in which the evil triplets of coronavirus, economic deprivation and racial injustice joined forces to expose the cruel, coldblooded America that Black people have always known far too intimately.

If 2020 was the year that White America discovered that institutional racism is a problem permeating society, 2021 must be the year in which the nation…

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Gunman

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

Dismantling a Culture of Violence

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

George Floyd should be here. Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Andre Hill - they all should be here.

Violence was official as well as individual… The torturers and punishments of civil… justice customarily cut off hands and ears, racked, burned, flayed, and pulled apart……

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Republicans Will Never Put Down Their Guns Because of Their Paranoia

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Look, just based on US History 101, most White folks are, I believe justified to feel like “gee, golly winkers, if I had been treated like Black people - enslaved, and then for another 100 plus years treated as 4th class semi-citizens, I might be a little pissed and disgusted.”

Ponder this point if you will. What if you knew you, as an individual, the skin-color you just happened to be born with is obviously and…

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Guest Commentary

Senator Tim Scott a Black Man Who Should Know Better

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

He is a person of color in a party that has declared political war on people of color — his own people. Thus, in order to save face and remain in the good graces of his GOP colleagues, Mr. Scott decided to engage in a shameful act of intellectual dishonesty.

Just when you thought the outlandishly abominable antics and disturbing and derelict rhetoric coming out of the Republican party could not get any more ludicrous, party…

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Commentary

Including Black Farmers in the Stimulus Bill Is “Reparations” Say Republicans and Other Right-Wingers – Solidarity America

By John Funiciello Columnist

In short, the white local USDA committee members withheld money for seeds and fertilizer for black farmers, until late in the growing season. A black farmer might get the loan when the crops of the white farmers all around were a foot high. There were other ways of depriving farmers of color, but that’s an inkling of the problem and it persisted for generations.

For some Republicans, like Senator Lindsey Graham (SC), the money in the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that is earmarked for black farmers and other socially disadvantaged…

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View from the Battlefield

Taking On Systems of Oppression – The Consequences of Stepping Over the Line

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

This thing, this is the notion that when Black people enter a particular white institution, they should suffer the slings and arrows silently because they knew the nature of the beast, the beast being systematic racism.

Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and Megan Markle exposed what a bunch of us already suspected. The biracial Megan wasn’t getting the royal treatment. Further,…

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Commentary

Reopening Schools: Examining the Issues

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Although schools need to be reopened safely and soon, teachers, low-income parents in particular, and the rest of us need to be mindful of the rationales that are being used to expedite the plans that are being put forth.

Reopening schools is an ongoing, contentious issue among parents, elected officials, and school communities. It has teachers threatening to not show up at school unless they…

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Commentary

Pope Francis Flip-Flops Again on LGBTQ Church Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The decree will cause harm and hurt to a community of worshippers that loves a church that doesn’t love them.

Once again, Pope Francis has shocked the global Catholic LGBTQ+ community. Last week, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, issued…

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Dixiecraps

By Chuck Siler

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