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Oct
11

Why History Is Important

Daniel Ihonvbere on October 11th, 2008

Friday October 10, 2008 will go down in history for a number of reasons, but mostly for being the day Americans were hit with the fact that after 200 years of nationhood and after strenuous efforts by our leaders to project an image of maturity, progress and tolerance, we are still a nation searching for [...]

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Oct
9

The Return Of The Lynch Mob

Daniel Ihonvbere on October 9th, 2008

The dangerous turn the rhetoric has taken on the campaign trail is sure to remind most of us of the ugly stories we have read about lynching of people in the dark days of the creation of the Union. Sarah Palin started us down this dark road and John McCain, as a further evidence of [...]

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Jul
9

Jesse Jackson’s angst

admin on July 9th, 2008

In an apparent aside recently, the Reverend Jesse Jackson was quoted as expressing anger and disappointment toward Senator Barack Obama for his tendency to “talk down to Black people”. On the face of it, it will seem like a simple “mis-speaking” – a word that is getting a life of its own in this campaign [...]

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