Perspectives
The Abolitionists or Absolute Bull?
The Myth of the Great White Hope “Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamp” Fight the Power, Public Enemy The year is 2020, and Goebbels Entertainment Company has just released its Academy Award nominated documentary, Rap, Unchained about how Hip Hop was successful in emancipating millions of Black children from mental slavery during the late 80s. While...
A run-off referendum on Nagin’s leadership
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Any time you have an election with an elected official already in office and running for re-election, the election is largely about that person’s leadership in office. In other words, it is a referendum on the leadership provided by him or her in their previous tenure in office. In this case, the referendum on Ray Nagin,...
Aids remains a ‘super’ problem
By George Curry-Guest Columnist- You know an event is important when it takes on Roman numerals. It instantly achieves Super Bowl status. This year's International AIDS Conference is number XVI. The one two years ago in Bangkok was XV. And the one two years from now, in Mexico City, will be XVII. This is the real Super Bowl. It's not...
Nashville and no peace for a troubled America
“America, in trying to hold her place as the greatest power among the nations of earth, is one of the most troubled countries on earth today.” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad As the year was closing, it included a literal bang with the explosion of a bomb laden recreational vehicle on the streets of Nashville in Tennessee. And while authorities at...
Mandela and Farrakhan’s Jewish Problem
By Richard B. Muhammad (FinalCall.com) - As the world mourned the passing of Nelson Mandela, the great freedom fighter, remembrances poured in from all sides. Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan, writing for the Jewish Daily Forward, gave a nod to those tributes. “But there is another side to Nelson Mandela–and many of his closest comrades–that is troubling to many Jews, including myself,”...
Israel caught spying on America’again
FINALCALL.COM The news came and went pretty quickly: Top government officials said Israel planted spy devices near the White House likely aimed at President Trump. “The U.S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most likely behind the placement of cellphone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, according to...
Bill (Bubba) Clinton’s True Legacy
-Guest Columnist- Clinton and the rise and consequences of black incarceration Aspiring to keep a 1992 campaign promise to shrink the size of government, while simultaneously incarcerating more individuals for longer sentences a part of a get tough on crime policy, President Bill Clinton contracted out to private prisons. This accounting “sleight of hand,” according to a 1995 New...
Is Alicia Keys In Tune With The Conspiracy?
Alicia Keys recently alluded to the government’s involvement in “Gangster Rap” and the deaths of Biggie and Tupac. Some so-called Black people started talking about how ridiculous it was for Alicia Keys to be thinking. “She needs to shut up and just sing and play the piano.” No, what needs to happen is you need to “open up”...
Politics, promises and power
The country’s national election will be held Nov. 3 and the run up to voting for the next president is in full swing. This is undoubtably one of the most consequential elections in recent years with a president consumed by narcissism, self-absorption and deceit. He appeals to the worst of the millions who follow and empower him. He leads...
Obama’s Democratic Party?
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- FCN Editorial - Is America’s attitude changing? (FCN, 01-14-2008) With Barack Obama about to foreclose on the Democratic nomination for president, he will also end 16 years of Clinton leadership of the Democratic Party, and should he go on to win the White House, Obama will strengthen that control. The nomination struggle has partially been about...