Blog Overview
06/25/11 - 02:23 PM
There’s a political and planetary solar system at work, where the earth revolves around the sun, while it comprises near-200 nations that revolve around various interests and ideologies that cooperate, compete, and clash.
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02/17/11 - 12:50 PM
As we celebrate another Black History Month during these political times of world turmoil and uprise, it’s important for America to project a world image that it has “turned the page” of racism in its own blood-stained history. And while the relevance of this month has even b...
10/29/10 - 06:22 PM
By Ezrah Aharone 10/10
The Juan Williams incident and the rhetoric of Bill O’Reilly that caused Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar to walkoff the set of The View, fan the flames of an unbroken theme in history where no other “belief” has arguably been as unifying yet divisive, peaceful...
08/05/10 - 06:11 PM
To pacify society, “Media Band-Aids” are constantly placed on open wounds of unhealed racism as the Shirley Sherrod incident demonstrated. Although the WilliamMorrisAgency dropped Mel Gibson for spewing the N-Word among other rants, Leonard Rowe’s new Michael Jackson book show...
07/02/10 - 01:35 PM
This July 4th marks 234 years of US independence. And although America’s ongoing “melting pot experiment” is theoretically unbiased to Blacks, Latinos and Muslims, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports that hate groups, like the well-armed Hutaree militia, have increased 20...
04/22/10 - 12:34 PM
Next year in April commemorates the 150th anniversary of America’s Civil War. So under the pretext to “encourage tourism” in Virginia, which has over 100 Confederate monuments, GOP Governor Bob McDonnell dusted-off an old proclamation that declares April as “Confederate...
02/27/10 - 12:52 PM
Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black History Month and second Black PhD to graduate from Harvard, wrote the acclaimed The Mis-Education of the Negro way back in 1933. In the 1940s, psychologist Kenneth Clark’s “Doll Test,” demonstrated that Black children were being p...
02/22/10 - 09:56 AM
By Ezrah Aharone 2/10
During President Obama’s first State of the Union address, there were over 100 applause lines, no shouts of “you lie,” and no reality show contestants (that we know of) breached security on a schmooze mission.
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12/25/09 - 11:53 AM
By Ezrah Aharone 12/09
While President Obama revs-up the war machinery during this holiday season as he simultaneously holds the Nobel Peace Prize, it brings ponder to the possibility of lasting peace, considering that this conflict also embodies a borderless ideological “collision of religio...
11/20/09 - 03:12 PM
By Ezrah Aharone 11/09
The election of President Barack Obama is shifting America’s axis of race in ways that have yet to be politically quantified. But from a standpoint of Black political leadership, it signals a definite “changing of the guards.” The once-popu...
09/02/09 - 03:42 PM
Are All Men Really “Created Equal”?
July 2nd, 2009 marked 45 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act to initiate racial equality. This anniversary coincides with the recent Senate Resolution “Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segrega...
09/02/09 - 03:21 PM
The Vices of American Values
Besides occurring on the same day, what does Michael Vick’s release from prison for funding dogfights have in common with President Barack Obama and Dick Cheney’s dueling speeches over Guantanamo prisoners? . . . Both incidences display elements of ...
09/02/09 - 03:07 PM
American Exceptionalism vs. Obama’s Idealism
During his European debut, a reporter in Strasbourg, France asked President Obama if he subscribes to the school of “American Exceptionalism” as did his predecessors. Being the first Black pre...