Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

Compton-Rock restored order! Williams asked her to talk about motherhood, raising two children – while being Black. Compton-Rock talked about her young daughter who has an Arab and white friend. The daughter came home one day and asked why she didn’t have long hair. The daughter also spoke of her hair as being “puffy.” Now,…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist sensibility to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis, resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice and equality, she has served as a coordinator…

According to the author, what needs saving is business, for it is business that is under attack and if business is under attack, then the entire American free enterprise system is in danger. This is the problem. And just who or what group is the enemy of the free enterprise system? While these “attackers” included…

You can cover up white American fascism and call it “right wing” or “Republican,” but it’s American, Democratic, left, and right down to its bone. White America is in love with itself – this is the bottom line. And everybody had better love white Americans or there’ll be consequences, here and abroad! This debate of…

-Edwin Clifford Holland, from John Hope Franklin’s The Militant South, 1800-1861 The French take to the streets! It is not only that the French might attune to what is happening and won’t hesitate to organize resistance to whatever they deem is injustice, unfair, unequal – just downright wrong. Something else is happening here that keeps…

In the history that Obama seems determined to excise from the American public’s collective memory is the little business of one group, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC). Founded in 1919, by white Southerners, the CIC recruited “middle class black and white people,” Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore writes (Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights,…

“Black people, both during and after the slave era, have been compelled to build, creatively and often improvisationally, a family life consistent with the dictates of survival. Yet because the Afro-American family does not reflect the norm, it has repeatedly been defined as pathological in character and has been unjustly blamed for the complex problems…

Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures In fascist Amerikkka, the “patriots” of Empire are readying for the “kill.” Among the patriots are the King’s armies of functionaries (collaborators), fine tuning “the trick.” Unity among the Patriots! “The trick,” Hannah Arendt writes, was Himmler’s idea – not a new idea in the…

Black and Brown children have been designated for canon fodder for the rulers’ continual wars and for the cheap labor they supply the prison industrial complex. Who wins with this scenario? Halliburton, KBR, and their politicians who make sure more canon fodder and cheap labor continues to flow their way with legislation (the Violent Crime…