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Guest Commentator

Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD

BlackCommentator.com Commentator, Dr. Elwood Watson, Historian, public speaker, and cultural critic is a professor at East Tennessee State University and author of the recent book, Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press), which is available in paperback and on Kindle via Amazon and other major book retailers. Cotnact Dr.Watson and BC.

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Guest Commentary

Election 2024 – Shock and Surprise

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

the forces of White Supremacy, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia were triumphant on Tuesday. The nation is entering uncharted territory.

For some people, November 5, 2024, was one of the greatest days in American history. Others may well remember it as a day that will live…

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Presidential Endorsement Neutrality

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Learning from such experience, an even more devious Trump intends, if reelected, to populate his administration with men and women willing to carry out his orders unconditionally.

Preferring to remain neutral as opposed to endorsing a presidential candidate resulted in the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post attracting significant attention. These two major…

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Followers of Donald Trump

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Trump is falling concerningly short of any standard of fitness for office and displaying alarming characteristics of declining acuity.”

To those of you who have been avid followers of Donald Trump, you will notice that his public appearances follow a typical direction. He has a…

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Trump and His Racism

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Although there are some conservatives who have denounced the tactics of their more extreme brethren, they seem to be isolated voices in the wilderness rather than taken seriously among Republicans as rational voices of reason.

Over the past few months, Donald Trump has engaged in a passive-aggressive approach in his sporadic, sinister practice of stoking White and supremacist sentiment. Recently, he…

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Trump’s VP Choice Delights, Disappoints and Repels Republicans

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Is there anything J. D. Vance sincerely believes?

After all the speculation about whom he would choose, Donald Trump selected J. D. Vance, the junior senator of Ohio, as his running mate in the…

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Assassination Attempt Reaction

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

it did not take long for partisan politics to emerge.

We all are aware of the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump that occurred on July 13th at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. What makes…

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Project 2025 and the Alarming Plan It Lays Out

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Anyone who believes Trump did not have any knowledge of this plan, is as gullible as they come.

On July 3, Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat , author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, commented that “one of the most alarming things” about “Project 2025” is…

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Will Voters Place the Interests of the Nation Above the Ambitions of an Unhinged, Immoral, and Amoral Man?

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

prominent Democratic operatives such as Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic National Committee have made it clear that they stand behind the president.

The truth is that when it comes to the issue of debates, perception is often just as crucial as reality and substance. Thus, there is no…

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SCOTUS Flag Judge

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

they are aggressively promoting their searing and blatant rhetoric and fascist ideology while simultaneously taunting their critics without fear or shame.

Right-wing politicians have made no secret of their disdain for the rule of law as well as our current state of democracy. One of the more…

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