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Bill Quigley
Model Minorities vs. Black (Reverse) Racists: Blacks, Asian Americans, and South Philadelphia High
06 Jan 2010
by Tamara K. Nopper What happens when Blacks are perceived by other minorities and by whites as the bosses, wielders of state power? How does the Blacks-in-charge perception jibe with stereotypes of Black incompetence and violence. And where do Asians, the so-called “model minority,” fit into…
Bill Quigley
The Warrior Tradition
09 Mar 2011
James Thindwa
Climate Gambit: How Rightwing Hypocrisy Threatens Us
09 Mar 2011
by James Thindwa The Right is ever-eager to demand war on the slimmest of evidence of actual threat to the United States, but denies overwhelming evidence of the grave threat global warming poses to all humanity. “If Iraq’s alleged nuclear program was a looming ‘mushroom cloud’ worth…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Peace Prize Torture
09 Mar 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States, governed by a Nobel Peace Prize winner, tortures political prisoners. That truth is on display for all the world to see, in the treatment of Wikileaks defendant Private Bradley Manning, who is stripped naked every…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition Holds March 26 Conference on the “Other” U.S. Wars
09 Mar 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The bulk of U.S. and European anti-war movements have never opposed all imperial domination of other peoples, and have therefore been selective about which conflicts would be recognized as actual “wars,” that should be protested. Thus, U.S. armed theft…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Race and Arab Nationalism in Libya
09 Mar 2011
Although a reawakened Arab nationalism “represents a catastrophe for U.S. imperialism,” the conflict in Libya dramatically exposes an “endemic” racism in the North African Maghreb. This racism “is not just against other Africans, meaning non-Libyan Africans, but also within Libya itself." Its…
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
BA Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, Week of March 8, 2011
08 Mar 2011
U.S. Has no “Moral Authority” to Take Khadafi to Criminal Court The United States “doesn’t have a shred of moral authority” to take Libyan leader Khadafi before the International Criminal Court, says Michael Rattner, executive director of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. “…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Throwaway Children
26 Jan 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson A gun goes off in a Los Angeles public school, and children are wounded. Mass gun violence by students is an overwhelmingly white affair in the U.S., but “any time violence erupts in a black or Latino context it’s a racial indictment, an indictment of a community, not a…
Bill Quigley
American Terror
12 Oct 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson It is not enough to preach mere “tolerance” of those who do not conform to gender norms. “Gay identities have moral value both as part of the range of sexual identity and in their difference from the compulsory heterosexual norm.” And, as is usual in a racist society, the…
Bill Quigley
Not Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Black Atheists, Urban America
15 Jun 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson Enormous pressures push African Americans to embrace a Black “hyper-religiosity” – or, at least, to profess to it – despite the fact that “the proliferation of storefront churches in urban black communities is a symptom of economic underdevelopment.” However, “a growing…