Dennis Childs – Black Commentator

Dennis Childs

Dennis Childs received his Master's Degree in African American Studies at UCLA in 1998. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. in English at the University of California at Berkeley. Child’s most recent publication is an essay, "Angola Prison, Convict Leasing, and the Annulment of Freedom," which appears in an anthology called Violence and the Body edited by Arturo Aldama (Indiana University Press, 2003). He can be contacted at [email protected]

Commentary

We’ve Seen This B-Movie Before: The New Black Tokenism and American Empire

By Dennis Childs

When asked about an incident in Baghdad in which a U.S. helicopter bombed a position near an immobilized Bradley military vehicle, killing at least 13 civilians including Mazen al-Tumeisi, a Palestinian journalist working as a correspondent for the Al Arabiya news organization, an American military spokesperson said that the attack was executed for “the safety”…

When asked about an incident in Baghdad in which a U.S. helicopter bombed a position near an immobilized Bradley military vehicle, killing at least 13 civilians…

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