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BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Nathaniel Turner is a pseudonym for a Gen X writer, newspaper editor and activist. He is a news analyst who offers commentaries on contemporary issues facing the progressive movements in the USA Click here to contact brother Turner. Share or Print this Page of BC |

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Cover Story

The Queen of the Chessboard – The Gambit

By Nathaniel Turner Editorial Board

“In some ways, the black woman is the most emotionally free adult in American society: freer to show love than many men, particularly black men; freer to show anger, even ferocity, than middle-class white women; freer to tell the blunt truth than just about any adult in polite society. She really is like the queen…

“In some ways, the black woman is the most emotionally free adult in American society: freer to show love than many men, particularly black men; freer…

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Commentary

The Irony of Joe Stack – The Gambit

By Nathaniel Turner Editorial Board

Maybe you thought Republicans were “strong on defense.” Perhaps you had the impression that Dick Cheney-admirers consider terrorists to be unmitigated, unredeemable, unappeasable evil in the flesh. Then came Joe Stack – the anti-tax, anti-government software engineer who plane-bombed an IRS building in Texas last week killing two workers. The kind of guy Republican Congressman…

Maybe you thought Republicans were “strong on defense.” Perhaps you had the impression that Dick Cheney-admirers consider terrorists to be unmitigated, unredeemable, unappeasable evil in the…

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Cover Story

Black History Month – Put Your Game-Face On – The Gambit

By Nathaniel Turner Editorial Board

Buried in the annals of Black History is a game that may help alleviate the education crisis troubling Black America today. You’re familiar with the grim statistics. While nationwide the so-called “achievement gap” has narrowed at both the fourth- and eighth-grade level in mathematics and reading, white students still score, on average, at least 26…

Buried in the annals of Black History is a game that may help alleviate the education crisis troubling Black America today. You’re familiar with the grim…

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Commentary

Nonviolent Protest Must Now Mature – The Gambit

By Nathaniel Turner Editorial Board

“It is not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realizable plan.” – Russian chess master, Eugene Znosko-Barovsky It’s that time of year when America pays its obligatory lip-service to Dr. King’s “Dream,” pats itself on the back for overcoming state-sponsored terrorism in the South, all the while glossing over…

“It is not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realizable plan.” - Russian chess master, Eugene Znosko-Barovsky It’s that time…

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Cover Story

What is our next move? – Chess anyone? – The Gambit

By Nathaniel Turner Editorial Board

Note: We are pleased to welcome brother Nathaniel Turner as a member of the BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board. His column “The Gambit” will appear on a regular basis. Gambit: 1. An opening in chess in which a minor piece, or pieces, usually a pawn, is offered in exchange for a favorable position 2. a remark intended…

Note: We are pleased to welcome brother Nathaniel Turner as a member of the BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board. His column “The Gambit” will appear on a regular…

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Guest Commentary

Why We Need to Escalate

By Nathaniel Turner Editorial Board

“If you want peace, understand war” – B.H. Liddell Hart The only thing truly surprising about the Obama administration announcing an escalation of the war in Afghanistan is the surprise and disappointment being expressed by the Clausewitz-total-war-types and the Obama-supporting-pragmatic-progressives. Obama is doing exactly what he said he would do during the presidential campaign –…

“If you want peace, understand war” - B.H. Liddell Hart The only thing truly surprising about the Obama administration announcing an escalation of the war in…

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