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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bilal Hussein and Bill Kristol
02 Jan 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Prevaricators and criminals of all kinds infest the American corporate media, a morally and professionally bankrupt gaggle of rich men's mass organs of deception. Where once corporate media perversely reasoned that lies and truth should have…
Bill Quigley
2007: The Year of Black ‘Media Leaders’ – Especially Obama
02 Jan 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In 2007, the contradictions that have beset Black America since the collapse (or betrayal) of the Freedom Movement two generations ago, came into sharp relief. A Black presidential candidate who spends much of his time denying the significance of race in U.S.…
Bill Quigley
Saint Bhutto, Devilish Musharraf and American Gangster Politics
02 Jan 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford U.S. gangster policies in the developing world have come home to roost, yet again. Washington never seems to learn that its thugs and gangsters change only the quality of their suits and caliber of weaponry - but never their spots. But then again,…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White America is Crazy for Obama
16 Jan 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. has never had a "viable" Black presidential candidate, and the culture shock seems to be wreaking havoc with white American minds. "Hillary Clinton's white feminist supporters experience their own Obama-related mental breakdowns…
Bill Quigley
White Privilege, White Progressives and the Audacity of Obama’s Definition of Hope
16 Jan 2008
by Dr. Edward Rhymes Corporate media idiots regularly ask the question: "Who would America elect first for President, a woman or someone who is Black?" History has already answered. Sixteen white women currently serve in the U.S. Senate, versus one lone Black, and "thirty white women have…
Bill Quigley
Obama and America’s Problem with “Race Fatigue”
16 Jan 2008
by Mel Reeves Leave it to the White Right to rat out their co-complexionists. George F. Will, perhaps the smuggest, most self-assured racist in the pundit pantheon, says (white) America is suffering from "race fatigue" - the "I don't want to hear about it" disease. Whites find comfort and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Death to Afghanistan
23 Jul 2008
Normal 0 by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley After eight years of U.S. occupation, the Afghan people live in terror, "not only caused by bombs and bullets, but by no bid contracts, private mercenaries, theft of resources and destruction of infrastructure." Barack Obama…
Bill Quigley
Losing What We Never Had: White Privilege and Deferred Dreams, Part One
27 Jun 2007
by contributing BAR editor Dr. Edward Rhymes The larger white society is getting ready to hold a party, to celebrate the end of racism, and lean back on their white privilege for the rest of their lives. It is an ongoing story of constant revision of history, and writing Black people out it…
Bill Quigley
Majoring in Minstrelsy: White Students, Blackface and the Failure of Mainstream Multiculturalism
28 Jun 2007
by Tim Wise White kids apparently believe they have the right to mock and deride Black people, as a sport. When they are caught in the act, they retreat to a position of "non-racism" - after having committed profoundly racist acts. Putting on "Black" wigs and darkening their bodies, these…
Bill Quigley
Losing What We Never Had: White Privilege & the Deferred Dreams of Black America, Part 2
04 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Dr. Edward Rhymes Modern political mythology, also believed by Blacks, maintains that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and the post-World War Two college and housing benefits for veterans were unmitigated boons for African Americans. However, in many ways, the opposite is…