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Jesse Hagopian
I’m Black and I Want More “Stuff” and “Things”: An Open Letter to Bill O’Reilly
14 Nov 2012
by Jesse Hagopian The arch-racist Bill O’Reilly believes Blacks expect to receive “a cornucopia of benefits” from the newly-reelected president. However, it’s about four years late for that. African Americans know they’ll have to fight – and work – to get what they deserve, as has always been…
Adèle Kirsten and Tshepo Madlingozi
100 Years of the ANC: From Liberation Movement to State Power in South Africa
14 Nov 2012
by Adèle Kirsten and Tshepo Madlingozi There is no doubt that South Africa is in deep crisis – an unfinished revolution. “The land question is unresolved, economic redistribution is not addressed, racial equality is not attained.” Yet the ruling African National Congress remains deeply…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
What Would the Ancestors Say?
14 Nov 2012
by Raymond Nat Turner Baptist, baritone strains: "I've been to the mountaintop, But this is not the mountaintop”
Yvette Carnell
How Both Rev. Al Sharpton and Michael Eric Dyson Tricked the Black Community
14 Nov 2012
by Yvette Carnell African Americans “leaders” – or “liars,” in the case of Reverends Sharpton and Dyson – did a great disservice to their constituencies by failing to pressure President Obama. “These men selfishly took advantage of their proximity to power, and successfully used …
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Grand Bargain is the Satan Sandwich
14 Nov 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama is taking his case for a grand austerity bargain with the Republicans on the road, moving us “closer to eliminating the threadbare safety net.” Not so long ago, it would have been inconceivable that a Democratic…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama's Second Term: Four More Years of Groundhog Days
15 Nov 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama has nearly consummated his long courtship with the GOP, yet Black and labor leaders continue to pretend that he is a bulwark against austerity. In an even more nightmarish version of Groundhog Day, "the behavior of the Black and labor leadership…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Neo-Confucian Wisdom In The Age of...Austerity
20 Nov 2012
by Raymond Nat Turner Confucius say, pimp-slap, kick to curb He who come with grand bargain
Mark P. Fancher
Arab/Black Conflict: A Colonial Gift to Africa That Keeps on Giving
20 Nov 2012
by Mark P. Fancher The U.S. and European media frame “racial” conflicts among the peoples of Africa as endemic to the continent, rather than a legacy and tool of colonial rule. However, “the crisis in Mali is not a simple conflict between two racial groups that can’t get along, even if…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s Mideast Policy Burns
21 Nov 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. believes it can manipulate jihadi fighters in a holy war against the West’s enemies in the Muslim world. However, “Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza threatens to unravel the Salafist-Qatari-Saudi-NATO axis, for one simple and irreducible reason: there is…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: American Guilt in Gaza
21 Nov 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Israel is often described as a regional superpower, but the whole world knows that’s only because the Jewish State is backed to the hilt by the global superpower: the U.S. The fruits of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, “the…