Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
I Feel Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Pain
16 Jul 2008
by Tom Grayman The author shares Rev. Jackson's frustration with Barack Obama, a central pillar of whose campaign is the "nonexistence" of Black America - a locale Obama nevertheless seems to…
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Rev. Jackson’s Not Down for the Count, Yet
16 Jul 2008
by Mel Reeves Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., an early supporter of Barack Obama, is an object of sheer hatred among some Obamites since his indelicate remarks centered on the Senator's scrotum. One…
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McKinney & Clemente: Black, Brown, Green and True
16 Jul 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Green Party's brand new Cynthia McKinney-Rosa Clemente ticket is off and running, having captured an overwhelming proportion of delegates at the national…
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American Medicine and White Supremacy
16 Jul 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The American Medical Association's apology for virtually excluding Blacks from membership in deference to southern Jim Crow sensibilities is like…
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What Obama Might Say to White Fathers
16 Jul 2008
by Shannon Joyce Prince What if statistics showed that "white young people are over twice as likely than black young people to drive drunk, a third more likely to carry a weapon, three times more…
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Why Does Barack Obama Hate My Family?
16 Jul 2008
by Kevin Alexander Gray People have a right to take personally Barack Obama's harangues against Black people's supposedly sub-par behavior. Every time Obama badmouths some aspect of African American…
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‘Progressives for Obama’ Fool Themselves
09 Jul 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama's rush to disavow the "tag" of the "Left" should surprise no one. The only people who pretend that Obama is a "progressive" are a few Leftists, and…
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Millions Face Disaster Due to U.S. Ethiopian Occupation of Somalia
09 Jul 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford George Bush doesn't feel the need to be consistent on human rights and international law. He's got the largest arsenal in the history of the world at…
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African Dictatorships and Double-Standards
09 Jul 2008
by Stephen Zunes President George Bush singles out Zimbabwean Robert Mugabe as if he is the most dictatorial national leader on the planet. But in fact, the U.S. has good relations with "Swaziland…
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The Audacity of Imperial Airbrushing: Barack Obama’s Whitewashed History of U.S. Foreign Policy and
09 Jul 2008
by Paul Street The United States has a solution for avoiding discussion of the many crimes it has committed against weaker nations: denial. “It never happened,” say the Americans, when…