Apr 8, 2021
The African World
Editorial Board
Bipartisanship in Congress and in our state legislatures must be based upon the expansion of democracy rather than its contraction.
It is now clear; it is no longer hidden. The Republican Party has announced itself to be the political party-for-dictatorship. How do we know? In 43…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
a white board member said the county did not “need” a Black police chief, according to Doyle’s petition.
The case of Lt. Col. Troy Doyle of the St. Louis County Police Department is a reminder that Black police officers, and even high-ranking police commanders,…
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Commentary
Columnist
The Republican right-wing, which is declining in numbers, is steadfast in its efforts to disenfranchise American voters of color who do not share their extreme views.
Informants also allege that George Floyd’s affinity with White female patrons and employees at El Nuevo Rodeo annoyed Chauvin. Questionable police killings of unarmed Black citizens…
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Commentary
Columnist
What China is doing with its Belt and Road Initiative is what powerful nations have done through their empires over the millennia: conquer or otherwise assume power (nowadays mostly economic) over weaker countries and extract from them what they want, whether it’s mining for minerals, forests for lumber, fish stocks, oil and gas, or the best arable land, no matter who or what lives on it today.
The Gambia is the smallest nation on the African continent and it is poor, so the promise of development and jobs by a Chinese company was…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Instead of dismantling encampments where unhoused people have formed their own communities, we ought to dismantle the economic system that fosters homelessness and the state power that preserves inequality.
The 1974 classic Hollywood film “Chinatown” features a scene set on a picturesque lake in Los Angeles where J.J. “Jake” Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson, spies…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The craven nature of imperial racism is amply demonstrated in phobias that target entire peoples, known as c-phobias (communal); phobias are defined as core beliefs and irrational fears about things, creatures, events, peoples, and nations.
In his celebrated play Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare famously said, “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once”. The matter…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Unquestionably settlers, pioneers, and cowboys were the “bad” guys, while American Indians were the “good” guys – homeland security, the “little people” who got “shafted,” “screwed,” “used” and “left to die” by the diabolical forces of European Colonialism, so-called American Exceptionalism and the contrived notion of Manifest Destiny
We Americans-of-color need to have an epiphany, an edification, alas enlightenment. The 50,000 watt light needs to come on and “we” need to realize and agree…
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