Tag: New Visions Commentary

President Obama Owes Black Americans the Truth, Not Special Attention, by Stacy Swimp

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As President Obama crossed middle America last August to promote his economic policies, Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) complained he was ignoring black communities. Feeling his political base crumbling, however, Obama now appears in Detroit to sell his new stimulus bill ...
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Black Lawmakers Play the Victim, by Christopher Arps

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"I accept my niggerdom. All you niggas get down with me!" — Michael Eric Dyson Back in 2005, at a panel discussion during Tavis Smiley's "State of the Black Union" event, Michael Eric Dyson urged attendees and C-Span viewers to ...
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Those Who Make Nothing, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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As a society, we highly value those who "make." Whether it's a dollhouse, tree house or a real house, we admire the makers. If it is a Soap Box Derby car, a Ferrari supercar, a jet or a space shuttle, ...
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Obama Being Paternal and Patronizing to the CBC Crowd, by Charles Butler

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Black folk can be forgiving, but, when it comes to President Obama's recent speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, forgiveness is tough. Everyone — and not just blacks — should be insulted at Obama's transition into a pseudo-black vernacular ...
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Government Regulation Will Literally Take People’s Breath Away, by Bob Parks

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It's not news that far too many environmentalists prefer trees, animals and insects over people. In 1962, environmentalist icon Rachel Carson — a government bureaucrat at the time — chose nature. She created a stink about the highly-effective pesticide DDT, ...
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President Obama Losing his Base, and Others, by Charles Butler

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As I was headed to a recent television interview in Chicago, the driver sent by the network asked me what topic I was going to discuss on television. "President Obama is losing the support of his base." The driver, black ...
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“Elite Liberal Libelers”: The Modern Face of Black-on-Black Crime, by Lisa Fritsch

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Jesse Jackson, Andre Carson, Maxine Waters and Walter Fauntroy are the new face of black-on-black crime. The term "black-on-black crime" was coined in the eighties to publicize shockingly disproportionate amounts of violent crimes perpetrated within the black community. Now, instead ...
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Morgan Freeman is Wrong, by Deneen Borelli

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In a September 23 interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, award-winning actor Morgan Freeman claimed the moral high ground, saying tea partiers have a "racist" motivation against President Obama "to do whatever [they] can to get this black man outta here." ...
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Tea Party is the 21st Century Civil Rights Movement, by Stacy Swimp

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Representative Frederica Wilson (D-FL), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, told her constituents at a CBC "job fair" that "[t]he real enemy is the Tea Party." Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), another CBC member, said the "Tea Party can go ...
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When Will Black America Wake Up? by Jerome Hudson

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It's common for the black political establishment to claim white conservatives and their policies cause black America's problems. It's a shame this accusation is never challenged because in many ways it is the black establishment that is enabling decline. There ...
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