Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Blake Fleetwood
Obama has been castigated in the black community for his failure to speak out against the Bell verdict in New York City. The ruling vindicated the right of police officers to fire 50 bullets and kill an unarmed young black man because they thought someone in the car might have been reaching down under the […]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Blake Fleetwood
April 30, 1968
With billy clubs swinging, bloodying heads, a phalanx of riot police stomped their way through the crowd of faculty supporters standing outside Fayerweather Hall. No one was given a chance to walk away.
The police then proceeded to smash in the main doors of the Hall where students had been camped out for a […]
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Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Blake Fleetwood
Rev Wright: “Obama Says What He Has to Say as a Politician”
The above quote is from Bill Moyer’s interview with Rev. Wright which is to air tonight. Rev. Wright, referring to Obama’s disavowal of Wright’s more controversial comments, said “He does what politicians do.”
Sometimes…
Obama’s ambivalence about playing the political game is how the Clinton’s have […]
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