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Bill Quigley
McKinney & Clemente: Black, Brown, Green and True
16 Jul 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Green Party's brand new Cynthia McKinney-Rosa Clemente ticket is off and running, having captured an overwhelming proportion of delegates at the national convention, in Chicago. Two Black women, one a Latina, are challenged to garner five percent of the…
Bill Quigley
American Medicine and White Supremacy
16 Jul 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The American Medical Association's apology for virtually excluding Blacks from membership in deference to southern Jim Crow sensibilities is like pouring perfume on a rotting corpse. For literally centuries, the American medical profession has been…
Bill Quigley
What Obama Might Say to White Fathers
16 Jul 2008
by Shannon Joyce Prince What if statistics showed that "white young people are over twice as likely than black young people to drive drunk, a third more likely to carry a weapon, three times more likely to binge drink, and twice to four times more likely (depending on the drug) to use cocaine,…
Kemet Mawakana
Why You Wanna Be Like White People?
16 Jul 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet Some questions never get old. And even when they do, they never become irrelevant. The Seven Foot Poet finds new ways to pose this old question, leading perhaps to new and useful answers.
Bill Quigley
Rolling the Dice Once Again – in Iran
23 Jul 2008
Normal 0 by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Most sane people think a U.S. attack on Iran would invite catastrophic consequences - some of which, like skyrocketing oil prices, have already occurred as a direct result of mere threats to attack Iran. Yet a school of thought holds there is a…
Bill Quigley
The U.S. Treats Afghans Like Roaches
23 Jul 2008
Normal 0 A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford To be occupied by foreign soldiers is always a degradation, but some countries are singularly unsuited to lord it over other nations. The United States seems incapable of conforming to the most elemental standards of civilized behavior…
Bill Quigley
John Kennedy, Barack Obama and the ‘Triple Evils That Are Interrelated’
23 Jul 2008
Normal 0 by Paul Street Barack Obama fans are quick to compare their candidate to President John F. Kennedy. In fact, the two are much alike: pro-business, imperial-minded politicians who are undeservedly tagged as progressives by folks who should know better. "JFK inhabited much the same…
Bill Quigley
Do No Harm: A Torture Victim Remembers
23 Jul 2008
Normal 0 by Naji Ali Torturers are remarkably the same, since their human victims share the same vulnerabilities the world over. In today's Israel as in yesterday's white-ruled South Africa, physicians play identical ghoulish roles in the state's crimes against the minds and bodies of the…
Bill Quigley
If I Should Die
22 Jul 2008
by Kemet Mawaka a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet On New Year's Day at an Oakland, California transit station, a young black man, lying face down in a crowd of cops was fatally shot in the back before dozens of witnesses, some of whom had the presence of mind to film the incident.…
Bill Quigley
Big Media Steals 5,100 Digital TV Channels
30 Jul 2008
Normal 0 by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Corporate media and their accomplices at the FCC may have pulled off the biggest public rip-off since "Congress conspired to grant millions of acres to the railroad barons." Valued at $80 billion, the 5,000-plus new channels are to become the quasi-…