Perspectives
Why does the U.S. government hate Cuba?
News Commentary The United States has an embargo against the import of anything from Cuba (especially her ideas). The government will not allow American citizens to buy anything from Cuba and bring it back to America. Under the Helms-Burton Act, America revoked the licenses of ships to dock at American ports if those ships dared to transport goods to Cuba...
Positive spring break for Black college students
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Webcast: Tour of New Orleans Lower 9th Ward (FCN, Spring, 2006) We live during a time when we have doubted the commitment of Black students to help elevate the condition of the less fortunate among us. Some of this ambiguity has been focused on college students whom we believe should know better. They have access to the...
Hollywood’s racism factory
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- I know, some will think I am shoveling that outdated Black pride, race integrity stuff when I note that Black people have given into the Hollywood racism factory. Think back: Frederick Douglass took his freedom from his slave-master; Sojourner Truth asked, “Ain't I a woman”; Malcolm X posited freedom “by any means necessary”; and Dr....
Prophet Muhammad cartoons: Smokescreen to divide the Muslim world
(FinalCall.com) - Thousands of Danish people that intended to travel to different parts of the Muslim world canceled their travel plans. The Prime Minister of Denmark went on television in America and throughout the world to say that the newspaper has apologized. However, Flemming Rose, the editor of the newspaper who is now on suspension, said that...
Nuclear hypocrisy in Iran’s treatment
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- U.K. helped Israel get nuclear bomb (The Hindu, 03-11-2006) Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Apartheid South Africa (UK Guardian, 02-07-2006)Israel and South Africa: Apartheid's Accidental Prophecy (Global Research.ca, 06-22-2005) As I look at the frantic gyrations in the attempt by the U.S. and Israel to keep Iran from obtaining the ability to process nuclear fuel, I...
New Orleans: Chocolate, Vanilla or Neapolitan?
By George Curry-Guest Columnist- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin opened himself up for a torrent of criticism when he declared in a Martin Luther King Day speech that God wants New Orleans to again be a “chocolate city.” In his speech, he said, “It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans–the one that should...
The FBI and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By George Curry-Guest Columnist- Few people in history have been as dedicated to civil rights as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In an interview with Playboy magazine, he noted that he worked 20 hours a day, traveled 325,000 miles a year, giving 450 speeches. That grueling schedule alone was enough to take a toll on Dr. King and his family...
America must not fail Liberia for a second time
We would hope that the signal sent by the attendance of U.S. First Lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice at the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was a clear indication that America will not fail Liberia as it did after the 1997 elections. In her interview with BBC, Mrs. Bush said that the Liberians...
Racist attack on Sudanese refugees
Birmingham Visits Cairo(FinalCall.com) - Last week in Cairo, Egypt, between one to two thousand Sudanese refugees camped out in the upper middle-class area of Mohandessin, to protest against the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. According to press reports, the refugees had been there for a little over three weeks. Many of the reports that I read,...
Iraq victory? A gross miscalculation compounded
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Senator John McCain was recently on television relating that, in the 1970s he had read the Pentagon Papers (that were courageously pilfered from the Department of Defense by Daniel Ellsberg), saying that they contained evidence from high-level sources that there were "gross miscalculations" made in the conduct of the Vietnam War. He also thought that these...