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The Commodification of (White) Morality: Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul?

Like Gil Scott-Heron (you may be familiar with his hit “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised“), I’m going to spend this post, the first in a long time, asking the admittedly pretentious-sounding question, “Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?”. I’m asking because it sure won’t be Whole Foods, or hybrid cars, or organic cigarettes, or [...]

Man Killed For Residing In United States While Black

On November 25th, 2006, Sean Bell was shot the day before his wedding date — because he was going to a bachelor party with friends at the Kalua Club in Queens, New York. He was shot by three detectives; two friends in his bachelor party were wounded and he was killed by the fifty shots [...]

Don't Kill For Me: The Case Against Death for Child Rapists

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the case of Patrick Kennedy, who is being tried for raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter, in Louisiana, a state where the crime of child rape carries the death penalty. This will be the first case to reexamine the use of the death penalty for rape since 1977, when [...]

Whassup, Bitches?: Female Chauvinism's Place is in the Garbage.

This poll discussed over at Slate in the article “Man Up!” found that “Despite the recent frenzy of media attention over the issue of race in America, a new poll by CBS (PDF) suggests that gender may cause more problems for contemporary presidential contenders. Thirty-nine percent of those polled think that a woman candidate would [...]

Speaking Truth To Power: The Canary In the Coalmine (Literally)

Fight the Culture of Hate! Vincent Navarro, formerly Jesse Jackson’s senior health advisor in the ’84 and ’88 Primaries, tells it like it is over at Counterpunch: HillaryCare Failed. That’s right, folks, the experienced cynical candidate might not have an advantage over the young, hopeful candidate. The experienced candidate might have been involved in a [...]

Our Masculine Systems: Women's Inequality Under the U.S. Constitution

Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]

There Is Not a Black America, or a White America… There's the United States of America

Here’s MC Eazeyo, who is a Friend, telling those of us who support Obama why we should be getting down to the voting booths, in addition to the fat beats by Rjd2 that back this track.