A little over a week before the U.S. presidential elections, CNN, the cable new network, decided to start airing a “comedy show” hosted by the Black comedian D.L. Hughley. On the face of it, it does not look like much, but the bottom line is that in a very sensitive election cycle where a...
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For quite a while, I actually enjoyed listening to Lou Dobbs on CNN. I religiously followed what I assumed were intelligent discussions of pressing issues, especially when it had to do with capital flight and the so-called war on the middle class, outsourcing and disappearing jobs in America. But the more I listen to...
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Like most of America’s bankrupt and horribly myopic intelligentsia which has contributed in no small measure in pushing the foreign and domestic policies of the Unites States to the extreme right, George Will is not happy that the tried and true tactics of diversion, obfuscation and irrelevant pontification by the Republican party is bouncing...
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According to the Wikipedia,”Tokenism refers to a policy or practice of limited inclusion of members of a minority group, usually creating a false appearance of inclusive practices, intentional or not. Typical examples in real life and fiction include purposely including a member of a minority race …into a group. Classically, token characters have some...
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It was John F. Kennedy who said “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
In the light of those very poignant words, we must take issue with the decision of the Republican party to play...
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