Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

Does the American Liberal Need More of Mark Twainism? Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board “Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain’s dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted…

– Chris Hedges, “How Democracy Dies: Lessons from a Master” A few weeks ago, I came across an ad inviting college graduates to consider working for Homeland Security. For the college graduate, strapped with negotiating the repayment of student loans while struggling with minimum wages as servers at McDonalds, the starting salary of 35,000 is…

– Albert Einstein The teenaged William O’Neal in 1968 could avoid a felony charge for interstate care theft and for impersonating a federal officer if he agreed to assist in the construction of a narrative, agreed to be a reliable narrator. So the young O’Neal joins the Black Panthers in Chicago, and moves through the…

Belief Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board A story is impelled by the necessity to reveal: the aim of the story is revelation, which means that a story can have nothing to hide. – James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work You must certainly put him to death. You hand…

-Frederick Douglass I have told this story before. It is one that Tsitsi Dangarembga bravely revealed through the voice of a young girl in a village in Zimbabwe (Nervous Conditions). Ever since she could remember, Tambu has listened to the wisdom of her grandmother. Along with other children in the village, she absorbed the history…

Remembering Dr. Ron Walters By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board We have lost another voice. I never spoke with Dr. Ronald Walters personally. Our voices only came together here, where our commentaries appeared weekly at the Black Commentator. As a professor of political science, he was a suit-wearing Democrat and served twice…

Good Thinking – Popularly Known as Positive Thinking: Barbara Ehrenreich’s Discussion of Bright-sided – How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board “People’s mothers die!” Cancer consumed my mother’s life in 1986, and, a month later, under the ether of the…

Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to whites; in reason much inferior…and that in imagination, they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous…I advance it therefore…that the blacks…are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind. (Notes on the…

Socialists Unite! Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board It is all good, now that we have Barrack Obama forging a socialist vision in a fascist world. And he knows he is good, even if others do not! Once, again, Obama has wrestled another victory from the malcontents. To say…