Tag Archives: Malcolm X

family feud

by Art Chantry: we really really need to start laughing in the face of this sort of thing. this is ridiculous, isn’t it? i mean, SERIOUSLY, dudes? change the name on the bus to ‘teabagger’ and then think again.honesty in … Continue reading

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ties that cement

Power is essentially centralized within a very limited circle in Israel and the Palestinian authority and they are both jealously guard it and maintain it. In fact, there is a certain complicity, a conjunction of interests, some readily apparent in … Continue reading

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tumbling dice: rocking the casbah

In the disapora, the absence of political sovereignty presented some opportunities for self-improvement, it was never regarded as an end in itself. Much like the Old Country proverb about dying, it was more of a tradition than a good deed. … Continue reading

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the enemy of my enemy is my …..

Islam seemed to offer an outlet to express the sense of rage at a white Christian America, a found repair that could welcome the alienated and disenfranchised; a means of sheltering the need for radical change. Beyong the exoticism, ritual … Continue reading

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crescent moon fever

“The earth is our promised land” as Malcolm X instructed his followers, ” and we are going to take some of it.” The concept was the Black man was the original man; he is the wisest, most powerful, most beautiful. … Continue reading

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the blue flame this time

James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a perplexing book.You wonder if its socialism using religion as a pretext to promote ideology or whether the attack against money is part of a larger value system intrinsic to the … Continue reading

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bounty hunters: head hunting in the red zone

What price glory? The average life expectancy of an N.F.L. player is roughly fifty-five years, although there may be some quibbling here, they usually aren’t around to collect social security. So, this latest scandal, the bounty hunting scandal centrally involving … Continue reading

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the chic-sters

Is there an alternative to free market capitalism? The issues that are feeding dissent have not faded. In fact, the global tendency for “austerity” measures will only reinforce them, since austerity as put into practice is a tax on the … Continue reading

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strike three for assad

Back to the Valley of Tears. Will he be called out on strikes, or take a hack at it hoping to put some wood on the ball? Or just go down swinging? It doesn’t look good for Bashar Assad. Not … Continue reading

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X-factor: malcom in the middle east

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Malik Shabazz, aka Malcolm X (1925-1965) This issue of the Saturday Evening Post excerpts The Autobiography of Malcolm X (“I’m Talking To You, White Man”) and in photographs chronicles X’s … Continue reading

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