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- Glen Ford , BAR executive editor“The Palestinians face the last bastion of legalized racial rule on the planet.”
- Ann Garrison , BAR contributor“It's time for us to grow up and join the rest of the world that has several different political parties.”
- Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist“If having black faces in high and not so high places doesn’t save our lives why should we support them at all?”
- Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor“Kanye West merely represents what happens when the Black misleadership class begins to reflect the crisis of the US system.”
- Black Alliance For Peace“The systematic violence could not have occurred without the ongoing support from the U.S.”