Commentary

The tragedy of this event is twofold. One is that it resulted in the senseless death of a bright, good-natured boy. The other is that it has stoked yet again the embers of racial hurt in this country, reinforcing the main obstacle to any true healing: the ugly relationship between blacks and the police.

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More whites are on welfare, use food stamps, and public health services numerically than blacks and Latinos. If three GOP presidential contenders, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have their way things will get even worse. They back deep cuts in government programs…

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In his 10 line “apology” statement to Fluke he devoted all of two lines to a tepid, kind of sort of “I made a mistake” pronouncement in branding her “a slut.” In the rest of the statement he railed against alleged sexual promiscuity at taxpayer expense.

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The civil rights movement sought to overturn conventional assumptions and the entrenchment of a segregated status quo in favor of a more ecumenical social and political ideal. Many Black folk resent having the rights of gay and lesbian people tied into our own, but the fact is, we do not exist in a vacuum of circumstances.

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The renewal of the Voting Rights Act by two conservative GOP presidents seemed to assure that any effort to scrub the Voting Rights Act from the federal books was a pipe dream. However, that may soon change.

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She gave freely of her time, talent and made contributions to many humanitarian causes. How or why she died is not known. How she lived is. It will take weeks, maybe months, for L.A. County officials to rule on the actual cause of Houston’s death and the circumstances around her death.

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But Paul didn’t greenlight the racist stuff in the newsletters because he is a racist, or in the purity of literary license. He approved the digs because they were a quick and dirty way to make a fast buck. A then out-of-political-office Paul was in debt.

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The bullet-riddled tee shirt of President Obama posted brazenly on Facebook by seven semi-automatic gun toting men among them a Peoria, Arizona, police sergeant was much more than the by now standard non-stop litany of racist cartoons, depictions, web postings, and kooky loose talk threats against President Obama.

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The suddenly surging Gingrich upped his racially loaded pandering scorecard with the resurface of a handwritten first draft of a series of talks he prepared in 1993, a couple of years before his ascendancy to House Speaker, for his prescription for “renewing American civilization”.

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Right now as I’m writing this, folks around the country are participating in service projects, going to ecumenical services, or doing other things to benefit their communities as part of the observance of the 83rd birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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