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In war, sometimes, to delay means to decease. But the opposite could also be true. If delay gives birth to death, haste may give rise to life. Perhaps that delicate balance sparked the rage of hundreds of black residents in South Dallas . . .
Read MoreWhen Donald Trump’s storm troopers attacked anti-racist protesters at Trump rallies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in Kansas City, Missouri, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in other cities, it reminded us of a long, terrible nightmare in world history.
Read MoreOn February 24, 2015, during Estonia’s Independence Day parade, while African-American troops wearing NATO uniforms marched with Estonian soldiers ... neo-Nazis and other racists shouted ... “Go back to your grandparents in Nigeria!”
Read MoreThe white mainstream media consists of a slugfest between two warring factions. The white racist media and the white propagandist media. At least that’s what some in the progressive and the black community perceive.
Read MoreThat question is neither morbid nor cynical. The question, in fact, is almost philosophical, like “To cry like a man must you feel like a man?” It may pose a problem for babies and pine trees, but an ordinary man and woman with insomnia or merely a 10th-grade education would find the question amusing.
Read MoreTo brainwash is a game to some, a sin to others. Where you stand on the matter might find its fervor mirrored in where you stand concerning Stacey Dash’s comments on Black History Month.
Read MorePeople raised to believe in certain beliefs will generally retain those beliefs in their original or varied forms as they age and grow gray. This tendency apparently applies to the right-wing and libertarian Koch brothers, David and Charles, according to a new book by Jane Mayer called Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.
Read MoreA British political party, an anarchist party known as Class War, attacked the Cereal Killer Cafe in East London during the week of September 21, because the two owners, twin brothers Alan and Gary Keery, would not lower their prices.
Read MoreChristmas originated in the womb of the Roman Catholic Church from several ancient festivals and religions. For example, the Church instituted the “Twelve Days of Christmas” to rival the 12-day celebration of the “Feast of Fools,” a festival of the ancient religion called Mithraism, which included such amusements as feasting with a boar's head.
Read MoreCondoleezza Rice was once the U.S. Secretary of State in the administration of Republican President George W. Bush. She left the position as one of the most bloodthirsty Secretaries of State of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Read MoreSometimes, an idea downplayed is an idea remade. Black reparations is one of those ideas. When Congressman John Conyers, Jr., who represents Michigan’s 13th District, submitted bill H.R. 40 for consideration by the House of Representatives in 1989, he and other blacks cheered in hopes that the bill on black reparations would pass, if not in that year, in a few years afterward.
Read MoreWhen Hina said “Black people look so great and stylish,” her black ancestors would have praised her for her acceptance and love of black culture. But Hina is not black: She is Japanese, a Japanese b-girl. And because the praise comes from a foreign source, it makes the compliment more glorious than the truth it proclaims.
Read MoreOn August 23, 2013, Ben’s Chili Bowl, a living monument to black restaurant success in Washington, D.C., celebrated its 55th anniversary. So what! True, if bricks were jewels, pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and topaz would adorn the building that houses Ben’s on U Street Northwest.
Read MoreRecently, the Ku Klux Klan pulled off one of the most astounding coups in the long catalog of racial hate and hysteria in America. It managed to maneuver its way into the veins of the NAA CP as if it were a sound never heard. But just as high blood pressure and diabetes are caused, not by the diseases themselves, but in general by the victims of those diseases, so the Klan neither laid the trap nor pulled the rope that snared that sweet herb of civil rights activism.
Read MoreI’ve seen many PBS specials chronicling how predators stalk their prey. I saw one program in which several wolves stalked a swifter deer across yellow and brown mountains, through dead cornfields, amid grass taller than a basketball player and among trees leafless or green.
Read MoreIn the film “The God Who Wasn’t There,” Brian Flemming questions the existence of Jesus Christ. Flemming argues that the biblical Jesus is a myth, a legend based on fairy tales that were never supposed to be seen as historical accounts.
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