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An answer
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The black prayer
From Lewis Blain: Why Did You Make Me Black Lord ….. Lord . Why did you make me black? Why did you make someone the world would hold back? Black is the color of dirty clothes, of grimy hands and feet… Black is the color of darkness, of tired beaten streets… Why did you give…
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James Blood Ulmer-Monday morning
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SNL's take
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The machines
This is a future that should not be lived and, with this incident, hopefully it’ll never come to pass. I am talking about news that robots that the U.S. Army hopes to use to fight Iraqi insurgents acted like they had a mind of their own and that the army has decided to retire the…
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Hendrix down in Georgia
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Scalia and Free Speech
I was wondering if you might indulge me and consider what Scalia is saying in this post: Both Scalia and his teenage interlocutor seemed aware of some “Road to Damascus” conversion that Scalia had gone through on Free Speech. “I have the capacity to admit I made a mistake,” Scalia started out in answering the…
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Can't win for winning?
What are we to make of the Knicks and their chuckle-headed coach, Isiah Thomas? I mean, did they just win three games in a row? I am sure you’re aware that this late in the NBA season most teams try to lose their games, not win them, so they can position themselves for a lottery…
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A fair trial, then an execution
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History
Douglas A. Blackmon reaches deep into history to re-examine some of our past: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. This is how Random House, the publisher, described the book: In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American…