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The A-Pauling house of pain
Category: Opinion Written by Raynard Jackson
The last week has provided a riches of embarrassments within the political arena. I sometimes wish I had a daily column, but somehow I will attempt to consolidate these embarrassing events into a coherent piece that will adequately do justice to each issue.
Let’s start with Republican Senate candidate, Rand Paul (from Kentucky). His public musings about his disagreements with certain aspects of the 1964 Civil Rights Act were appalling. But more appalling to me was the slowness of any public response by Republican senators and Black Republicans.
Let’s start with Republican Senate candidate, Rand Paul (from Kentucky). His public musings about his disagreements with certain aspects of the 1964 Civil Rights Act were appalling. But more appalling to me was the slowness of any public response by Republican senators and Black Republicans.
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Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:28
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Guest Editorial...Rand Paul needs a history lesson, Blacks a future lesson
Category: Opinion Written by Courier Newsroom
by Shannon Williams
I was fortunate.
I was raised during a time when equal access to restaurants, movie theaters and swimming pools was the status quo. Though I would have certainly participated in them, during my lifetime I wasn’t involved in the sit-ins and regular NAACP and SCLC strategizing meetings.
Indeed, I was fortunate.
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Gays and immigrants don’t compare
Category: Opinion Written by Louis 'Hop' Kendrick
It is extremely disturbing to me when I hear gay people and immigrants—even third and forth generation—attempt to equate their problems with Blacks and the civil rights holocaust.
Allow me to simply the differences and inform you about some personal encounters. Some will seek to minimize the inhuman treatment by saying that it happened a long time ago. They lie through their teeth because racism is alive and well in 2010.
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Too big to fail… what about us?
Category: Opinion Written by Bernadette Turner
“Too big to fail.” Lately, those words refer to financial institutions in the corporate industry receiving lifelines. People are perplexed when they think about large businesses (with many resources) continuing to receive additional resources. What about Main Street?
What about the heartbeat of America, the mom and pop businesses that keep the fuel pumping in this country? Well, this way of thinking isn’t isolated to the crash of Wall Street and the corporate industry. Smaller, community-based nonprofits would venture to say, business as usual.
What about the heartbeat of America, the mom and pop businesses that keep the fuel pumping in this country? Well, this way of thinking isn’t isolated to the crash of Wall Street and the corporate industry. Smaller, community-based nonprofits would venture to say, business as usual.
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To catch a predator
Category: Opinion
(REAL TIMES MEDIA)—Anyone who has followed this column for the last several years knows how passionately I feel about victim’s rights and recovery for those who have suffered sexual violence or assault. When one in five women in America and one in six African-American men or women are reportedly victims of sexual violence in this country, we cannot sit by and let others suffer in silence because of our old-fashioned, puritanical views of sexual propriety. I am in favor of tough sentences for sexual predators and I cheer every time Chris Hanson shocks some pervert sitting in his underwear in a suburban kitchen. Despite all that that, the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that sexual predators can be held indefinitely is something that any American, even an advocate for sexual violence has to stand against.
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