Perspectives
Run, Obama, run
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- The specter grows that finds Senator Barack Obama being turned into a national phenomenon, drawing huge crowds of people wanting to touch the hem of his garment and catch the verbal morsels that fall from his lips wherever he goes. So massive has been this response that it has sparked a political culture of speculation...
The Symbolism of King Kong
The Black Brute Caricature (Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia) The April 2008 issue of Vogue magazine depicts NBA star LeBron James and a blue eyed blonde in a pose that is strikingly similar to the depiction of King Kong and a blonde in the movie. Am I making too much of the picture? Well, the 1987 movie version of...
Obama Reaches Out to Muslims Worldwide
President Barack Hussein Obama delivered a 54 minute speech from Cairo, Egypt to the Muslim world. One analyst described this speech as being more powerful than his speech delivered in Philadelphia regarding race in America after the Reverend Jeremiah Wright incident. Due to his diverse heritage no combination of U.S. presidents could, in my opinion, do what...
Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s ADL Shuffle Will Never Pay off
By Tingba Muhammad -Guest Columnist- (FinalCall.com) - With more than ten of every eleven inhabitants of the planet being “non-Caucasian,” it has always been critical to American leaders that they carefully control the ideas and attitudes of Black Americans, especially their perceptions of America's wars and other acts of aggression toward the Black and Brown peoples of the world. Almost...
How usury enslaves economies worldwide
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad declared “What The Muslims Want” and “What The Muslims Believe” and placed it on the back page of the Muhammad Speaks Newspaper, and these words are now found on the back inside cover of The Final Call Newspaper. One of the beliefs includes: “3. WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believe...
Fighting a true War on Poverty
By FinalCall.com News It was 50 years ago in January that President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the time had come to wage a War on Poverty. His presidential declaration was followed up with more support for programs that assassinated President John F. Kennedy had created to tackle problems of hunger, job training and job creation. President Johnson's “unconditional war on...
Fires rage in Ferguson
By Richard B. Muhammad FERGUSON, Mo.–Fire still burns in Ferguson, not the fires that attracted mainstream media, but the fire and desire for liberation in this St. Louis suburb struck by an uprising and protests that captured the world's attention. Fire burns in the hearts of young people coming into a political and social awakening, in the hearts of so-called gang...
Hands off Marilyn J. Mosby!
By FinalCall.com News The decision by Baltimore's state's attorney to indict six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, an unarmed 25-year-old Black man, brought a predictable barrage of criticism and howls of a rush to judgment. Next came false assertions that the prosecutor kowtowed to demands of protestors and bowed to fears the city could go up in...
An Enemy Disagreeable To Live With In Peace And Our Self-InflIicted Wounds
By Final Call News Revelations that the Nixon administration fostered the War On Drugs as a way to neutralize political enemies seen in Black America and the counter culture hippie movement during the 1960s and 1970s barely brought a reaction from Black leaders and Black organizations. Writer Dan Baum repeated an admission he attributed to Nixon-aide John Ehrlichman, who served jail...
No ‘Mistress’ Of Monticello
By Final Call News The July announcement that the “living quarters” for Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation had been uncovered and were under restoration brought efforts to cover the Declaration of Independence author's horrible history. Before being dragged on Black Twitter and elsewhere, early articles referred to slave Hemings as the slave holder's “mistress.” She wasn't a mistress. She...