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Guest Commentator

Charles Cinque Fulwood

Charles Cinque Fulwood is a writer and communications strategist living in Washington, DC.

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Guest Commentary

Mystery of The Negro Conservative

By Charles Cinque Fulwood Guest Commentator

“I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open the Door, I’ll Get it Myself).” – James Brown “In the colonies the truth stood naked but the citizens of the mother country preferred it with clothes on.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth I double-dog dare anyone to solve…

"I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open the Door, I'll Get it Myself)." – James Brown “In the colonies the truth stood naked but…

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Harold Ford, Social Security, and Telling Lies

By Charles Cinque Fulwood Guest Commentator

Welcome to 21st Century Toming. The cool, articulate (“He’s very well-spoken”) and well-dressed Negroes offer dangerous confusion to too many younger people, who often get these messages framed by such prattle as “post-civil rights” and “third wave” thinking. What appears at first glance to be a brand spanking new road map to lead us to…

Welcome to 21st Century Toming. The cool, articulate ("He's very well-spoken") and well-dressed Negroes offer dangerous confusion to too many younger people, who often get these…

Continue reading 6 min

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