Category: News and Opinion

The Arab Rising

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Many worry that the Arab Rising may be a short lived phenomena susceptible to violent put downs by autocratic government forces throughout the region.  This is simply not true.  A reading of Anwar Sadat’s autobiography reveals that in the past Arab freedom fighters were quite willing to face adversity, imprisonment and death for their cause and in the end seek out political solutions to their situations.  Sadat did all of this during British colonial rule and went onto be

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TONGUE IS AS SMOOTH AS SILK, BUT DOES HE KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? (Part two/finale).

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After some retrospection, I can now see that whenever I write something even mildly critical of President Barack Obama, the phone calls and e-mails come with protestations from his many sycophants. Back around August of 2007, I wrote an article critical of him constantly dropping into New York for fundraising purposes mainly, while ignoring our other issues -especially those raging in the communities of color. I suggested that he was using NYC as an ATM machine only to make campaign withdrawals. It was the first time I experienced the wrath of ”Barack’s army of black females”.

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