By John Telford, Author of A Life on the RUN – Seeking and Safeguarding Social Justice Black (and many white) reactionaries are still calling Nevada senator Harry Reid a racist for stating a probable truth—that many whites (and some blacks) were swayed to vote for President Obama because he’s light-skinned and speaks “standard” English. I’ve [...]
Continue reading …In the eight presidential elections over the course of the past thirty years, the presidential challenger has defeated the incumbent party candidate on only four occasions—in 1980, 1992, 2000, and 2008. The formula for victory was no secret then, nor is it now. The challenger triumphed by successfully portraying himself as an apostle for deliverance [...]
Continue reading …The United States Constitution is a document that William Lloyd Garrison, the great abolitionist, described as “covenant with death and an agreement with hell” for the original sin of slavery, which the Constitution not only protected but nourished.[i] Constitutional conservatives, and strict constructionists in particular, often cite the original constitution and its conception of federalism [...]
Continue reading …By Jordan Flaherty, Originally published in Colorlines. On New Year’s Eve in 2004, nine months before Hurricane Katrina hit, bouncers in the Bourbon Street club Razzoo’s killed a Black college student named Levon Jones. The outrage led to near-daily protests outside the club, threats of a Black tourist boycott of the city and a mayor’s [...]
Continue reading …President Barack Obama took to the podium in Boston last week pleading for the Democrats of Massachusetts to support his candidate, Martha Coakley, to win the senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy. Obama said, “Understand what is at stake here, Massachusetts. It’s whether we’re going forwards or backwards.” His efforts [...]
Continue reading …Story of Women’s Struggle in Sudan A single woman’s preference of wearing a loose khaki trouser brought the whole Sudanese regime’s legitimacy into question last September. When Lubna Ahmed Al- Hussein, a 34-year-old Sudanese journalist, decided to stand in the face of one of the oldest forms of discrimination – gender inequality – the whole [...]
Continue reading …Co-authored by By Melissa Boteach the Half in Ten Manager at Center for American Progress. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. shifted his focus in the dwindling years of his life to an audacious, but achievable goal: ending poverty in the United States. In his book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, [...]
Continue reading …Did Barack Obama lie to us, or did we lie to ourselves? Originally published on January 6, 2010 in Psychology Today Back in the early 1970s, I interviewed a young Jewish woman, Sara Levy (a pseudonym), whose family was totally, I mean totally, committed to the Black Liberation Struggle of the 1960s. Both she and [...]
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Forget about Harry Reid, what up with Bill Clinton?
January 13, 2010 Comments OffWatch: Tell-all book : CTV News Channel: Avis Jones-Deweever Let’s call a spade a spade. Our friend, Bill Clinton, has a race problem. I know all the buzz right now is about Harry Reid and the fact that the good Senator had the audacity to state the obvious. But to me, the much more offensive [...]
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