For over one hundred years, the African-American middle class has
largely supported what I call "liberal integrationism," the organized attempt
to assimilate into the U.S. mainstream to achieve a "color blind"
society.
The contemporary black reparations movement, the demand for compensation to African Americans due to centuries of unpaid labor exploitation under slavery, segregation, and ghettoization, has grown remarkably in recent years. On November 7...
When did the great executive stock option hog wallow
really
start? You can go back to the deregulatory push under Carter in
the late
Seventies, then move into the Reagan Eighties, when corporate
purchases of
shares really took...
U.S. tax dollars kill in Colombia but
Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio
doesn't care. His Columbus staff delivered this message on April 30 when they ordered myself and 9 other concerned constituents arrested for requesting a face-to-face...
First it was all about drugs - or so
we were told. Sen. Mike DeWine helped craft Plan Colombia for the Clinton Administration, and $1.3 billion flowed to Colombia's declared drug war. Two years later President Bush demands more...
We've arrived at the 30-year
milestone of Watergate, though
calling it an anniversary is a bit too celebratory for me. Watergate started as a bungled break-in but became a symbol of abuse of presidential powers: break-ins, wiretapping...