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...structural racism, mass unemployment and incarceration, disease and disenfranchisement lower the life chances of blacks globally. Instead of disregarding the political thought of Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X as anachronistic or misguided, it might be time to resurrect the Pan-African focus in order to combat the most severe crisis in the African Diaspora since colonialism. We live in a world where those with power and resources are either flagrantly inattentive or maliciously disengaged from this plight because there is no joint intellectual and grassroots pressure. For example, we praise President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative...
...surprising, because it is a very hard job, and he has been doing things that are not pleasant - waging war, for instance. It's curious if Bush is actually saying he enjoys making war. Certainly John Kerry would not relish it. Maybe that's because Kerry has been in combat, while Bush makes war only from the remove of the presidency. To make people forget that he didn't go to war himself, Bush states that his job is to be a "decision maker," as if to say that that's all the country needs in its President. If Bush...
...personnel Murphy has at his disposal to combat Lafayette’s option offense gives him good reason...
...defendant ... opened the door ... inviting Mr. Colono to mutual combat at that point,” Lynch said. “Michael Colono had given him some lip...he knew he could sucker [him] into a fight...
...credibility. His voiceover commentary is both gratingly juvenile—“a real bounty hunter”—and absurdly hard-boiled—“what might just be our VIP pass into the shitstorm?”. He has the mentality and combat skills of a commando, but the profession and body art of a hipster. Larson’s real physical courage is entirely at odds with his recurring self-conscious pose, pensively staring out from a Jeep while exaggeratedly drawing on a cigarette...