The Black Commentator – Page 148

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Three Kings Bearing Gifts

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The interim between Christmas and New Year’s Day is a time for reassessment, a lull in life’s short march during which we resolve to patch up what has gone wrong, and make more permanent that which has gone right. Symbols help us in our contemplations. For the evaluative purposes of this essay, we will employ…

The interim between Christmas and New Year's Day is a time for reassessment, a lull in life's short march during which we resolve to patch up…

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Hip Hop and the Hard Right

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

This article was first published in the Winter edition of ColorLines magazine, now on newsstands. The historical foes of Black America are engaged in a new and multi-layered strategy to subvert the general political consensus that has prevailed among Blacks since the dramatic death rattles of official Jim Crow, in the mid and late Sixties.…

This article was first published in the Winter edition of ColorLines magazine, now on newsstands. The historical foes of Black America are engaged in a new…

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By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Poor Trent Lott – disowned. The GOP has wrapped him in his own soiled blanket and dropped the orphan in the back alleyways of history, claiming they never knew the boy. Trent, who? say Republicans, as they wave a dirty rag, claiming to have wiped the slate clean. The GOP’s faith-based funding juggernaut will resume…

Poor Trent Lott - disowned. The GOP has wrapped him in his own soiled blanket and dropped the orphan in the back alleyways of history, claiming…

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Briefs

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The only thing black George Bush wants to deal with in January is Iraqi oil. What with his Trent Lott troubles, Bush is all Blacked-out. That’s the general assessment of Africa Action executive director Salih Booker, responding to the White House decision to postpone the President’s January 10 – 17 trip to Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya,…

The only thing black George Bush wants to deal with in January is Iraqi oil. What with his Trent Lott troubles, Bush is all Blacked-out. That's…

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African Venezuelans fear new U.S. coup against President Chavez

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

This article appeared in the Venezuela and Chavez Watch page of Trinicenter.com. This month, for the first time in history, Venezuelan people of African descent have total control of their historic Black university, the Instituto Universitario Barlovento. They are already planning a university administered hotel and a restaurant for students, faculty and the community. This…

This article appeared in the Venezuela and Chavez Watch page of Trinicenter.com. This month, for the first time in history, Venezuelan people of African descent have…

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By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

There is poetry in the flow of human events, if one can only figure out where the verse begins and, thereby, catch the rhythm of it all. For months, publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble delayed completion of their commentary, “America’s Black Rightwing Forum: The grotesque devolution of a Black news program.” Created by Ford…

There is poetry in the flow of human events, if one can only figure out where the verse begins and, thereby, catch the rhythm of it…

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Briefs

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The actual character of the Bush regime, how relentlessly its component corporate parts pursue their ideological and practical agenda, is revealed in the administration’s intention to repeal a little known and never financed family leave benefit. The Clinton administration issued a regulation allowing states to provide unemployment benefits to workers who take time off to…

The actual character of the Bush regime, how relentlessly its component corporate parts pursue their ideological and practical agenda, is revealed in the administration's intention to…

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Cartoon – Lott of Fun

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Trent Lott Furor Threatens Faith-based Bribery Scheme

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Trent Lott became a liability to George Bush when it became clear that the unreconstructed Dixiecrat’s racist outbursts endanger Bush’s faith-based initiatives, the massive political bribery program designed to smash the Black bloc vote. Not even a political soul mate like Lott could be allowed to stand in the way of an historic opportunity to…

Trent Lott became a liability to George Bush when it became clear that the unreconstructed Dixiecrat's racist outbursts endanger Bush's faith-based initiatives, the massive political bribery…

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