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Bill Quigley
So Much for the Promised Land
05 Aug 2009
by Chris Hedges “The conditions for black men and women in America are sliding backward, with huge numbers of impoverished and unemployed removed from society and locked up.” Yet an often “craven” Black elite speaks a language that “ignores the institutional racism that makes sure the poor remain…
Bill Quigley
Turning Racism Upside Down To See It Right Side Up: The Remix
05 Aug 2009
by Dr. Edward Rhymes Attorney General Eric Holder described Americans as “cowards” when it comes to race. Certainly, white America refuses to confront white criminality and social pathology, preferring a narrative that “transfers” the ills of society to Black America. Won't some courageous white…
Bill Quigley
The Great Debate -- Is Barack Obama Good For Black People? Part 1 of 2
05 Aug 2009
On June 25, hundreds of black America's formost thnkers and doers gathered at St. Mary's Church in Harlem NY to ask and answer the question of whether Barack Obama was good or bad for black America. We here present some of the 5 to 7 minute presentations pro and con on whether Barack Obama is good…
Bill Quigley
Margaret Kimberley is on Vacation
05 Aug 2009
BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley is on vacation. Her column, Freedom Rider, will return to these pages on Wednesday, September 9th. Ms. Kimberley may be contacted at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgendaReport.com.
Bill Quigley
“In Cold Blood”: White Deputy’s Killing of Homeless Black Man Sparks Mild Protest in Obama-Mad Iowa City
11 Aug 2009
by Paul Street In what might be called “White Obamaland,” places like Iowa City, Iowa, “middle class 'liberals' and 'progressives' are proud of the support they gave to the nation’s first black president during the election last November.” But when a Black man was shot down without apparent…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Radio-One Tycoon Runs Republican Game
05 Aug 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Wielding her 50-plus radio stations like weapons, Wielding her 50-plus radio stations like weapons, Cathy Hughes gives “Black cover” to corporate, Republican politics while smearing the most progressive members of the Congressional Black Caucus. The presence…
Bill Quigley
Miracle Cure?
12 Aug 2009
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. The Seven Foot Poet In this, the long awaited year of health care reform (or not) the Seven Foot Poet offers a potent cure for an insidious disease that has long stalked among us. Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this…
Bill Quigley
The Misleaders
12 Aug 2009
by Henry D. Rose Black American politics has been deformed by the intrigues and insults of a misleadership class that collaborates with the enemy while launching “wholesale attacks on the moral character of the Black working class and poor.” These new elites are disconnected from the historical…
Bill Quigley
Whitewashing the Jobs Statistics
12 Aug 2009
by Lee A. Daniels Media repeat the pared down, sanitized jobless figures, even though they know the stats are misleading. “A truer picture of unemployment is to be drawn from including those involuntarily working part-time jobs, those who only sporadically find work and the long-term unemployed who…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Inside Man on the Great Bank Heist
05 Aug 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. The bankster class, awash in billions in bonus money, flaunts its unearned wealth, oblivious to the…