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  • THE MISSION: Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s final chapter
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVID LEVERING LEWIS
    In one of his more bizarre Oval Office confidences, Lyndon Johnson said that he didn’t want to “follow Hitler” but that Hitler had the right idea: “Just take a simple thing and repeat it often enough, even if it wasn’t true, why, people accept it.” Johnson was speaking by telephone to Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama, about how to convince Southern whites that Southern blacks deserved the franchise. The curious political-science tutorial came on the (…)

  • Why do Asians study in Australia, UK & US? PC racism of media lying over US war crimes
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PC RACISM (politically correct racism) and cowardice in US-UK-Oz academia has resulted in the mal-education of a current establishment of PC racist journalists, academics and politicians who simultaneously DENY any racism, are COMPLICIT in horrendous mass murder in Asian wars and IGNORE the horrendous, continuing passive genocide of Asians in US wars in gross contravention of the Geneva Conventions (so far there have been 2.1 million avoidable post-invasion deaths and 1.7 million (…)

  • WHY SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED?
    22 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, launched a media tsunami when he declared the Holocaust a myth.
    But we shouldn’t be all that surprised. The Middle East is chockablock with Holocaust-deniers and Holocaust-minimizers. And it is not only the so-called Arab Street that has been infected. The disease has spread to many members of the Arab intelligentsia and to some of the area’s privileged elite.
    I learned just how deeply embedded this attitude is during a (…)

  • Brokeback Locker Room
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    A few years ago, I had the privilege of meeting a gay professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz. He desperately wanted to come out of the closet, but feared reprisals and career suicide. The man relayed to me the great difficulty of having an active social life in conservative Utah. As a gigantic, well-known black man in lilywhite Mormon Country, it wasn’t as if could slip into a gay bar unnoticed.
    There were teammates who were aware of his sexual orientation and (…)

  • Segregated Schools: Shame of The City
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jonathan Kozol
    Stuyvesant High School is one of the most vivid symbols of the consequences of decades of systematic racism in the United States. Black and Hispanic children make up about 72 percent of the citywide enrollment in the New York City public schools. At Stuyvesant � the most prestigious public school in the city � they make up less than six percent of enrollment.
    In fact, the percentage of black kids who go to Stuyvesant has decreased dramatically in the last quarter (…)

  • Discrimination against mobile dwellers in France
    18 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Taxation without recognition?
    Although not recognised officially as housing, caravans will now be paying council tax.
    The 2006 finance law introduces council tax for people living in mobile, land-based dwellings, mainly caravans and camping-cars. This aggravates existing discrimination and contradicts recent presidential and government statements.
    The situation is pure dynamite. Will this blow it up?
    All depends on what will happen during the next few months.
    In fact, the law will (…)

  • Reflections on King
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Adrian Walker
    It takes a deep devotion to spend more than two decades of your life on a single topic, and the passion that has kept historian Taylor Branch going for all these years comes through clearly when he discusses his life’s work: the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    Branch has spent the past 24 years researching, analyzing, and chronicling King, whose life spanned just 39 years. ’’At Canaan’s Edge," the third and concluding volume of his grand trilogy on America in the King (…)

  • Dr. Martin Luther King & the REvolution of Human Rights
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The revolution for human rights is opening up unhealthy areas in American life and permitting a new and wholesome healing to take place,” Dr. Martin Luther King once told a racially-mixed audience. “Eventually the civil rights movement will have contributed infinitely more to the nation than the eradication of racial injustice.”
    Congresswoman Barbara Lee Remembers Martin Luther King By James Butty Washington, DC 16 January 2006
    listen to the interview with Congresswoman Barbara Lee (…)

  • A court seat for privilege...
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    AMAZING AMNESIA. How sweet the white privilege. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, ’’Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Right on time for the King holiday, America is elevating yet another man to lifetime power on the claim of sincere ignorance of his association with racism and sexism.
    Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito was repeatedly asked in this week’s hearings about his membership in the Concerned Alumni (…)

  • Black Commentator vs. The Wall Street Journal
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BC Associate Editor Bruce Dixon
    In their quest for absolute political hegemony in the United States, some elements of the Right now dare to claim to share with blacks - if not common cause - common conclusions about the state of race relations in America. In a January 8, 2006 piece weighted with the full freight of centuries of white supremacist delusions, Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto claimed that BC’s January 5, 2006 Cover Story, "Katrina Study: Black Consensus, White (…)