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Bill Quigley
The Idea of a Black President
16 Jan 2008
by Mumia Abu-Jamal So deeply rooted are assumptions of the "normality" of white rule in the United States, Americans of all races have trouble wrapping their minds around the very idea of a Black president. Which only goes to show that the 100 million-strong U.S. neighbor to the south is, in an…
Bill Quigley
Kenya: Let Us Not Find Revolutionaries Where There are None
16 Jan 2008
by Mukoma Wa Ngugi Just as Washington is constantly in search of enemies to crush, many on the Left imagine revolutionaries behind every movement opposed to Washington's client governments in the world. Not necessarily so, writes the author - certainly not in Kenya, wracked by violence in the…
Bill Quigley
People of Color Face Historic Wealth Loss
23 Jan 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The subprime lending debacle should cause massive rethinking among those who have long proclaimed that the route to Black equality is through wealth accumulation. In a report titled, "Foreclosed: State of the Dream 2008," United for a Fair Economy…
Bill Quigley
Playing the Race Game in South Carolina
23 Jan 2008
by Kevin Alexander Gray As the "Black primary" in South Carolina approaches, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton "talk as if" John Edwards, "the more populist Southern white man in the race were invisible." Heretofore, this strange campaign has seen the Black candidate "ignoring what should be his…
Bill Quigley
Journalistic Leaches and Diebold Machines
23 Jan 2008
by John Maxwell Journalistic circles are thick with bloodsuckers, in Jamaica as in the United States. After "having spent forty years conniving at and condoning police murder" in Jamaica, journalists now change their tune, pretending to be crusaders against police brutality. To the north,…
Bill Quigley
Why Bob Johnson is an Asshole and a Hypocrite
23 Jan 2008
by Davey D Let me count the ways, says the author. Billionaire Bob Johnson has possibly the least moral authority of any Black person alive to express outrage at Barack Obama's (admitted) drug-using past. Having grown fabulously rich by serving a steady TV menu of low-life video behavior,…
Bill Quigley
Super Bowl Slavery
23 Jan 2008
by Dave Zirin Some consider the super-expensive commercials debuted each year on the Super Bowl as entertaining as the game, itself. Gaining "official sponsor" status for the game is the corporate equivalent of winning the Super Bowl ring. However, fans should know that Bridgestone/Firestone,…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: “These People Frighten Me”
02 May 2007
by editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel is right to be scared of most of the Democratic field of presidential candidates. Except for Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the contenders jockey for the title of most-likely-to-attack-Iran. Impeachment "is the only…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Marianne Pearl is Black
27 Jun 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The wife of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan by Al-Quaida associates, is Black. Hollywood chose to cast her as a white woman, Angelina Jolie, for the film, A Mighty Heart. Jolie put on a…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: British Terror
11 Jul 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Tony Blair is out as British Prime Minister, but remains an unrepentant racist and sub-imperialist poodle. He has been given a new job, as Middle East "peace envoy." What a joke. How can a man who took an unwilling nation into war against…