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Cliff Conner and Michael Steven Smith
Imagine: If Mayor DeBlasio Really Were a Socialist
08 Jan 2014
by Cliff Conner and Michael Steven Smith Lots of people who call themselves socialists have high hopes for Bill de Blasio, the new mayor of New York City. If de Blasio is really as “left” as some imagine, he could use his bully pulpit “to rally public support to fight for socially progressive…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama, the Great Dis-Equalizer
09 Jan 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama has used up his people-friendly rhetoric over the past five years, and is now repeating promises he’s already made and broken: to raise the minimum wage, strengthen worker rights, establish truly universal health care, and fight for the common man and…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why Was Atlanta's Beverly Hall Indicted For Racketeering While Michelle Rhee Won't Be?
03 Apr 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Atlanta's black former school superintendent and 34 other black teachers and administrators have been indicted for “racketeering” in a cheating scandal. Why aren't others like former DC Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee and her team indicted? Should we be…
Pascal Robert
Class and the Politics of the Black Community in the Obama Age
26 Nov 2013
by Pascal Robert The collective subjugation of African Americans is made easier through the collaboration of its Misleadership Class, which purports to speak for The Race as a whole while following its own, venal agenda. A great irony of the Age of Obama is that “both the Black poor and the Black…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Progressive Sheepdogs, Democrat Sheep: Broken Promises & the Minimum Wage
13 Nov 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon If President Obama and his party didn't even try to deliver on their 2008 campaign promise of a minimum wage hike when they had the White House and both houses of Congress on lockdown in 2010 and 2011, what does their sudden rediscovery of the minimum wage mean…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Black Misleadership Class Needs Unmasking
05 Nov 2013
by Danny Haiphong The Black Misleadership Class purports to guide African Americans on the path to upward mobility. But, in fact, “Black FBI leaders, corporate managers, police authorities, Senators, Congressmen, Presidential advisors, and morally bankrupt celebrities like Jay-Z are given handsome…
Pascal Robert
The Fallacy of Racial Kinship Politics
15 Oct 2013
by Pascal Robert Every “brother” ain’t a brother – and that goes for the sisters, too. “The ultimate idiocy of racial kinship politics is that it empowers an elite Black Misleadership Class that protects its own class interests to the detriment of the majority of the Black masses.”
Wilmer J. Leon III
Dr. King’s “Dream” vs. Obama’s Realpolitik
20 Aug 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III The commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington will go silent as a bell rings the exact moment when Dr. Martin Luther King addressed the crowd. But MLK would himself be silenced in the current political environment. “Those within the African American community who are…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Obama’s Not the First Black President – He’s the First President Who is Black
19 Jun 2012
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III Obama may be Black, but he’s not that kind of president. “If he were the first Black President he would be using his bully pulpit to champion legislation targeting unemployment in urban areas, poverty, income disparity, and other issues.” This particular Black man is,…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Trayvon Martin’s Moment Should Spark a Movement
04 Apr 2012
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III For Trayvon Martin’s death to lead to social transformation, decisive leadership is required. Not only can boycotts of Florida’s tourist industry be organized, but “human and civil rights organizations should be meeting and strategizing with the Occupy Movements as they…