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Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

PhD

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has a Doctorate in Modern American Literature/Cultural Theory. Click here to contact Dr. Daniels.

257 pieces

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“Joy to the World”: The Liberal’s Proposed Social Security and Medicare Cuts

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The Liberals cannot distance themselves from the consequences of their relationship with the Right...

Thus, the gravest omission from the ‘general picture’ was that of a witness to testify to the cooperation between the Nazi rulers and the Jewish authorities,…

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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Free the Ignorant from Tyranny

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Did not the Africans benefit from “our” knowledge of the world?

How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us? The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably…

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Compromising with Extremists

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Each new class which puts itself in the place of the ruling class before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim, to represent its interest as the common interest of all the members of society, that is, expressed in ideal form: it has to give its ideas the form of universality,…

Each new class which puts itself in the place of the ruling class before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim, to…

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If Harriet Tubman Were President

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

In the Republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes to grab a poem fluttering from the sky, blinded by weeping. – Martin Espada “In the Republic of Poetry” If Harriet Tubman were elected president of the United States, the Underground…

In the Republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes to grab…

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Privileging the Voices of the Threatened, Marginalized, and Offended

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise. -Joseph Goebbels It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long…

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle.…

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Book Review – Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons – A Narrative of Struggle

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics. -Nikolai Lenin You can never have a revolution in order to establish democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. -G.K.…

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and…

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Drones: Warfare Fit for a Changed America

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister isabel created hundreds (and hundreds) of socks not to mention shirts fleaproof ear warmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my…

my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister…

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Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore or Googles 24-Hour Spies

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Hitler left it to Goebbels to minister to the psychological needs of the German people, a task to which the Propaganda Minister brought his considerable resources of energy and imagination. He fed the people a carefully blended mixture of hopes and fears and threats and promises, cleverly seizing upon the Allied declarations…to prove that a…

Hitler left it to Goebbels to minister to the psychological needs of the German people, a task to which the Propaganda Minister brought his considerable resources…

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From ‘Entitlements’ to Telescreens and No Principles in Between!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Change does not roll on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. -Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Some months ago, I was on the phone discussing with a friend the availability…

Change does not roll on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.…

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