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 October
22nd is a Good Day to Standup for Justice
Michael T. McPhearson, October 22, 2009
October 22nd is a day of
action and events to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the
Criminalization of a Generation. The October 22nd
coalition was formed in 1996 in response to acts of police
aggression. The about section of the Coalition’s website,
www.october22.org explains the
significance of the date.
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 Brown Eyes,
Blue Eyes, Lula
and MS. Dowd
Michael T. McPhearson, October 2, 2009
I
bought a Kindle from Amazon a few
months ago and now I read more of the New York Times than ever
before. A March 30, 2009 Op-Ed by Maureen Dowd caught my eye and
keeps hanging around in my thoughts. Her piece addressed remarks by
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also known simply as
Lula. Below is an excerpt from Ms. Dowd’s editorial including the
comments by Lula. Lula’s thoughts about the world financial crisis
were made during a press conference with Britain’s Prime Minister
Gordon Brown.
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 I
must say right now I am a bit obsessed with the Obama
frenzy and what it means for Black people,
not only here in the U.S. but across the globe. It is a complex
subject of which there are many commentators. For sometime to come Aithiops will gather information relating to Obama
and the impact of his
rise on people of the African Diaspora, especially those living
in the United States. If he wins the election we will all probably be focused on him for years. If he does not, then the focus will not be
as intense. A loss will not push him off the world stage. He is here
to stay and we shall cover him.
Please take the time to read some of the
articles I have found. It is important to have some knowledge of the
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The End of the Black
American Narrative
Charles Johnson - Published in The American Scholar
www.theamericanscholar.org
A new century calls for
new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful
history of slavery and its consequences
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Where Obamaism Seems to
be Going
by Adolph Reed, Jr - Published
on www.blackagendareport.com
"It
is ironic that Obama would be the one to complete Clintonism's
redefinition of liberalism as conservatism."
A friend called me a few days ago from
Massachusetts, astounded at a WBUR radio program featuring Glen
Greenwald from Salon.com and Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation,
in which vanden Heuvel not only unflaggingly defended Obama's open
and bald embrace of right-wing positions during the last few weeks
against Greenwald's criticism, but also did it from the right
herself, calling him a "progressive pragmatist." She affirmed Tom
Hayden's insistence on the
Progressives for
Obama blog that the candidate is a progressive, but a new kind
of progressive, or some such twaddle.
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NEW
YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Is Obama the end of Black politics?
Mat Bait Aug 2008
Forty-seven years after he last looked out from behind the bars of a
South Carolina jail cell, locked away for leading a march against
segregation in Columbia, James Clyburn occupies a coveted suite of
offices on the second and third floors of the United States Capitol,
alongside the speaker and the House majority leader.
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My View: Principles, not color, determine
support
by Jimy E. Greene Tuesday August 05, 2008
I find it interesting when I hear or
read that this presidential campaign is supposed to transcend race
and take us to uncharted waters on the conversations regarding this
hot-button topic. I'm not sure I buy into that.
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