Perspectives
President Obama’s ‘Egyptian’ visit is a trip to Northeast Africa
(FinalCall.com) - The news reports on TV, in print and on the internet, about President Barack Obama's planned June 4 trip are calling it his first to Egypt (which is in northeast Africa)–instead of his first trip as President to Africa. Most people would say that's quite elementary. However, for years Egypt has been projected as being in...
Willie Lynch Speech: The Making of a Slave
This speech was said to have been delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. Willie Lynch Speech: The Making of a Slave Greetings, Gentlemen. I greet...
Obama should have attended UN racism conf.
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- I am missing something here. President Barack Obama just went to Europe and Iraq and made speeches saying that he would be deferential to Communist China, that he would meet without conditions with the leadership of Iran and that he wanted to open up a new relationship with the Islamic world. Then he went to the...
The Employee Free Choice Act
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- One of the apparent mysteries many people ponder is how it was that union membership was responsible for virtually building the American middle class after World War II and now so many people appear to blame unions for the loss of jobs, rather than the push for more profits by company bosses? The answer is...
The International Criminal Court Targets Africa
The Illegal and Unjustified Arrest Warrant against President Omar Al-Bashir (FinalCall.com) - While the world watches and listens, the International Criminal Court has targeted Omar Al-Bashir and issued an arrest warrant. Most of the international organizations from the third world nations or the nations of the south have protested this arrest warrant which is not only unjustified, but...
‘Black Power’ and shallow scholarship
ASKIAM If I may be so bold, I would like to put all the shucking and jiving so-called “Public Intellectuals” who pimp their snake-oil brand of Black history around the country, which excludes the heroic role of the Nation of Islam in their accounts. I would like to put them on notice that at least one writer–yours truly–will not countenance...
Obama Coattails: Black Republican Chair
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Republicans have just named an African-American, former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele, as party Chair. While I congratulate Steele, I am also aware that it probably would never have happened if Barack Obama had not won the presidency. So now that he is Chair, the biggest question he confronts is how to turn around the strong...
Israel: No Friend of Obama
Why should the Israelis expect any sane and rational human being to believe that their barbaric attack on Gaza and the indiscriminate slaughter of defenseless and helpless civilians including men, women, the elderly, and children can be justified? Why did not the Israelis wait until a new president, who is about to take office on a platform of...
How immoral can America be?
WILLIAM.REED>-Guest Columnist- How beguiled will we allow ourselves to be by politically-inspired media campaigns and continue a humanitarian crisis? Zimbabwe’s government declared a national emergency and pleads for international help to combat the cholera epidemic. The ravished country is receiving help from its neighbors in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) which Western powers and media have labeled them as...
America Needs Barack Obama Now
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Previous perspectives by Dr. Ron Walters This is not an endorsement, it is an analysis. At the end of the three presidential debates featuring Sen, Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, the judgment of the American people was that Sen. Obama had won all three. Thinking about it, I must admit that I missed the...