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The Editors
Teach For America Rap -- A Scab Is A Scab Is A Scab
24 Jul 2013
Teach For America Rap: A Scab is a Scab is a Scab What do you call cheap "replacement workers" summoned by management? From the HBO series "Treme".
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Supports the Racial Surveillance That Killed Trayvon
25 Jul 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In his effort to “put the angry Black genie back in the bottle” following George Zimmerman’s acquittal, President Obama once again claimed to oppose racial profiling. He’s lying. Obama has endorsed the most prolific racial profiler in the country as a potential…
Ezili Danto
Zimmerman and The Invention of the White Race
30 Jul 2013
by Ezili Dantò The United States needs a “bottom” racial caste – African Americans – but allows some groups to “pass” as white over time. “Zimmerman used the confusion to alternatively identify himself as Hispanic and white, depending on who his family wanted to manipulate.” He chose not to…
Mark P. Fancher
The U.S. Military’s Mind Games in Africa: No Bullets, But Lethal
30 Jul 2013
by Mark P. Fancher The U.S. Military Command in Africa – AFRICOM – is a highly sophisticated force for domination of the continent. AFRICOM is adept at “manipulating news and commentary on the Internet, especially social media,” portraying itself as an ally in “the fight for Africa’s liberation…
Rob Hager
How Zimmerman Could – and Should – Have Been Convicted Under Florida Law
30 Jul 2013
by Rob Hager The Sanford vigilante was certainly guilty of the crime of “aggravated stalking, a felony in the third degree,” as defined by Florida law. Having committed the predicate crime of stalking, Zimmerman was responsible for the outcome of his actions. The trial jury was “led astray by being…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
No Justice, Nobel, No Beer!
29 Jul 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner “Jury Has Spoken Stout and Nation Of Laws Lager were trotted Out like “8 Ball,” as Ole English 800’s Known in the ‘hood.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The “Obscene 14” House NSA Negroes
31 Jul 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If only half of the “Obscene 14” Black members of Congress had voted against NSA telephone spying, “the Bush-Obama surveillance regime would have been dealt its first serious setback in more than a decade of fascism-in-the-making.” Their treachery is deadly. “…
Tamara K. Nopper
Black Unemployment in the Multiracial Small Business Industry
26 Jan 2011
by Tamara K. Nopper Do small, immigrant businesses get a “pass” when it comes to racial discrimination in employment? “There is a good deal of literature examining how employers prefer non-Black people of color over Black workers and use this diversity to conceal and defend their anti-Black racism…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Will Black Mecca Bail Out Its Gentrifiers and Their Jim Crow BeltLine Streetcars?
11 Jan 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Hailed by “smart growth” advocates around the country, the Atlanta BeltLine, is a massive & racist gentrification scheme funded by diverting billions out of Atlanta's Public School budget to banksters and crooked developers. But those billions aren't enough…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The End of Black Politics As We Knew It: Will Atlanta's Next Mayor Be White? Should We Even Care?
21 Oct 2009
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon 36 years of black Atlanta mayors have given birth to a thriving and empowered class of black managers, attorneys and contractors. But even after moving tens of thousands of poor blacks who once lived in public housing to areas beyond the city limits, fully one…