Social Justice Magazine
BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor, David A. Love, JD, is a lawyer and journalist based in Philadelphia, and a contributor to the Progressive Media Project, McClatchy-Tribune News Service, In These Times and Philadelphia Independent Media Center. He contributed to the book, States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons (St. Martin's Press, 2000). Love is a former Amnesty International UK spokesperson, organized the first national police brutality conference as a staff member with the Center for Constitutional Rights, and served as a law clerk to two Black federal judges. His blog is davidalove.com.
here’s a buzz about the death penalty in America these days. And nearly all of the conversation focuses not on how to maintain the practice, but rather on abolishing the death penalty.Connecticut just decided to repeal the death penalty, following the lead of Illinois, New Mexico, and New Jersey in recent years. Meanwhile, California voters will vote on a ballot measure that would … [Read more...]
n his new book It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership, Colin Powell says there was no debate in the Bush administration about whether going to war in Iraq was a good idea. But before Powell starts to rewrite that chapter in history -- or at least put his own spin on it -- he cannot let himself off the hook for the Iraq war, or the case he made to go forward with it.In February 2003, … [Read more...]
ondi Rice for vice-president? At least Juan Williams thinks it's a good idea. With former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney now emerging as the presumptive Republican nominee for president, now is the time for the GOP to find a running mate.And Juan Williams of Fox News believes that Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, is made to order."Rice would be a … [Read more...]
ith an empty suit as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, I know you can feel the magic in the air. Now the speculation on who will fill the vice presidential slot has begun. Predictably, a number of the prospective candidates are black and brown, at least nominally.It is safe to say that Mitt Romney - the whitest man ever, as Bill Maher described him - will make some so-called bold move … [Read more...]
f you are judged by the company you keep, then Mitt Romney is an extremist for choosing Robert Bork as his top judicial adviser.The presidential candidate and presumptive GOP nominee selected Bork as co-chair of his Justice Advisory Committee. A conservative legal scholar who once served as Nixon's solicitor general, acting attorney general and a federal appellate judge, Bork was President … [Read more...]
he killing of Trayvon Martin has brought many people together, but has exposed the various divisions along racial, political and media lines as well. As America awaits the possible arrest of George Zimmerman for killing the 17-year-old black man, the chasm widens. Trayvon's death may not have created these divisions, but rather -- like the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, the O.J.Simpson trial … [Read more...]
hy are white protestors largely missing in action at the Trayvon Martin rallies?Across America, thousands of protestors are attending rallies for Martin, the 17-year-old black teen who was shot to death on February 26 by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida. Even in Toronto, Canada and as far away as London, England, where racial profiling also occurs, … [Read more...]
rayvon Martin may very well become this generation's Emmett Till.The February 26th shooting death of 17-year-old Martin by George Zimmerman -- a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida -- has captured national attention and garnered universal outrage.Martin was gunned down near his father's home, wearing a hoodie and armed with little more than an iced tea and … [Read more...]
Rush Limbaugh's years of bullying may have finally caught up with him. His vicious attack on Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student, was over the top even by Limbaugh's standards. Calling the young woman a "slut" and a "prostitute" for supporting health insurance coverage for contraception has cost the on-air personality and full-time blowhard a number of advertisers, and many hope his … [Read more...]
It's a presidential election season, and Republicans are once again turning President Obama's faith into a political issue. But will their strategy work? History and hypocrisy suggest that the political gamesmanship won't succeed.Franklin Graham, son of the elder evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, weighed in on the president's religion. On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Graham expressed doubts about … [Read more...]
Originally, this was to be a commentary on the plight of the white middle class, but that demographic no longer exists in America. So, let’s talk about the swindling of the white working class.And although it has all come to a head in the past few years, it is a story that is years in the making. If Stockholm Syndrome relates to the feeling of empathy that kidnap victims have with their … [Read more...]
Racial and ethnic intermarriage are on the increase in America and growing in acceptance. And a new study has the details.The study released today by the Pew Research Center is called The Rise of Intermarriage: Profiles, Rates Vary by Race and Gender. And the results -- based on polls taken between 2008 and 2010 -- are eye opening.And public acceptance of intermarriage is at an … [Read more...]
Only a few weeks into the new year, and it seems that black conservatives made their way out of the gate on the wrong foot.That’s not to say that they ever were on point, in my estimation. But these days, they seem particularly off their game, out of place, out of step and isolated. When the Republicans were a center-right party with a semblance of a big tent, black conservatives were useful … [Read more...]
As the U.S. observes the eighty-third birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this is a perfect time to reflect on the slain civil rights leader, Nobel laureate and death penalty opponent.Much is known of the Montgomery bus boycott that he led in the 1950s. He fought for economic justice and the plight of the poor, and supported Memphis sanitation workers before he was assassinated. And he … [Read more...]
On his way out the door, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour decided to grant executive pardons and medical releases to over 200 convicts, including 14 convicted of murder. He even pardoned Scott Favre, brother of retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre. But why weren't the Scott sisters on Barbour's list?Barbour's pardons caused outrage in some political circles, including charges that he … [Read more...]
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