There is a great deal to be said about a forum that doesn’t feel the need to address those who do not agree in a serious manner. When one calls themselves an intellectual, yet does not see fit to defend their ideas, the self-designation is questionable.
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Earth Day 40th Anniversary: Is Energy Policy Headed In The Wrong Direction?
40 years later, there is good reason to believe that the work of these early environmental activists have been seriously set back in the name of political expediency.
Read more“Black Male Privilege”: Contradiction and Diversion
Now, I must say that there definitely is such a thing as male privilege, it does not make sense to deny that. However, I take issue with the notion that Black men have some kind of special rights in society, as it flies in the face of the day to day, and current realities of what we face as a people.
Read moreNegro Dialect?
Not only does Reid laud Obama’s oratorical skills, but he duly notes his verbal dexterity in alternating between the Standard English of every upstanding American and what he terms as the “Negro dialect”
Read moreDespite what Obama says, there will always be a Black America
If president Obama refused to address this amongst other issues that effect predominantly African Americans, then he risks eroding his most loyal base of support. The political fate of one man is not more important than the predicament of the other 40 million African-Americans.
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