Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

It is September 1955, and Mamie Till Mobley chooses a glass-top casket so the world could see in the mutilated face of her son, 14-year old Emmett Till, the face of the enemy. “Let the world see what I have seen.” And now, where are the Mamie Till Mobleys to let the world see maimed,…

In the BBC film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s After the Funeral, a young woman gives a speech to a room full of men and women. Missionary work in Africa is honorable, in light of the poverty suffered by the people there. The camera pans over the high ceiling and mahogany walls, the “prim and proper”…

-Bob Herbert in “When Democracy Weakens” It does not matter what the people want. Peace is the spread of corporate domination and repressive police states everywhere and the obedience of the people. “We’re in serious danger of becoming a democracy in name only.” Where is peace, democracy? With over 800 military bases around the globe,…

The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village. Provided that he can be mayor, or humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart, or add to the savings in his strongbox, he considers the universal order good, unaware of those giants with seven-league boots who can crush him underfoot, or of the strife…

-Ariel Dorfman from “The Last Will and Testament” I do not know what it is like to believe in “my” government without question. I would have to believe not so much that my government was innocent but rather that what stands outside of my government and me is danger, chaos. I would not be deceived,…

Our government’s allegiance to Wall Street has closed its ears to its people. When the latter asked for an honest government and an honest president, they received another corporatist rogue, selected and nurtured by the Daley Machine and Wall Street to further its dream of global domination. Pleading for a Single-Payer Health Care Program, activist-citizens,…

Circulating on the Internet is a cartoon featuring Dr. Martin L. King and Barack Obama sitting across each other at a table. King, serious, leans forward. King: “So, that’s my dream. What’s your dream?” Obama: “To not piss off rich people – That’s really about it” and he laughs (Mr. Fish, “My Dream,” http://www.blackcommentator.com/410/410_cartoon_my_dream_fish.php). The…

The BBC radio host and non-American guests wanted to sound civil, objective, as they discussed another shooting rampage in the U.S. The Wild Wild West. Arizona. The OK Corral! John Wayne and Gary Cooper. The host and guests stumbled over the contradictions – the 2nd Amendment, the right to bare arms and shocked and grieving…