June 9, 2022
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Is there a way to keep racist white men from legally buying guns and using them on us at will? I think there is.
The safe places for Black folks are dwindling. In America, we’ve been shot down in cold blood in our places of worship, our homes, our schools,…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
the Uvalde, Texas, massacre, has revealed what many in the Black community and other communities of color have known since forever.
Police do lie, and often. Those who accept what police officers say as the God’s honest truth are likely to get their feelings hurt at some…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
none of the “new” gun laws being considered by Congress will reduce the number of guns in circulation. Gun sales will continue to soar. When you think about it, guns now have more rights in America than people do.
The bottom line on gun laws in the USA is, surprise, profit. What matters most is not banning any guns, including military-style assault weapons. There are…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Some gun manufacturers with lucrative federal contracts are even using their profits to lobby the government against gun control. But the hold that guns have on the nation goes deeper than plain economics.
Guns have become an intimate part of American culture, one that is fed by gun-makers and the gun lobby, the right-wing media and Hollywood, and of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
We all avoid talking to the other side for similar reasons: the other person won’t listen, will get too emotional, and there would be no point. Essentially, we’re united in how uncomfortable these exchanges make us feel.
As we look at the pictures from Uvalde, Buffalo, and other mass shootings, we’re having agonized conversation. It seems inconceivable that “the other side” could look…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
toss into the voodoo chili the obvious - there’s just not enough love for each other in America.
America’s now home to a few generations who, for all intents and purposes, were raised by wolves…. “Traditional” families have been marginalized and trivialized and in…
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