Dr. Wilmer J. Leon
The Biden Administration, One Year in and We’re Still Left Out
President Biden. Shaky grounds. Photo: Gage Skidmore. “We are amazed but not amused – By all the things you say that you’ll do…But we ...
American Hypocrisy: Condemning U.S. Coup Attempt While Overthrowing Governments Overseas
Hugo Chavez was briefly deposed by U.S.-backed coup. Photo Wikimedia Commons: Agência Brasil. Victor Soares/AB Wednesday, January 6 in Washington, D.C. began with Trump ...
“Green Book” – Not Our Story; His-Story, Their Fiction
Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in “Green Book” Dr. Manning Marable, in “Escaping From Blackness: Racial Identity and Public Policy,” September 2000 put ...
A Sensible Gun Rights Debate Requires Honest Sensible Debate
Young Naomi Wadler spoke to the fears of many children at the March For Our Lives D.C. protest The Second Amendment to ...
Donald Trump’s Racism: When Someone Tells You Who They Are, Believe Them
Trump–The Grand Wizard. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr [Commentary] The Washington Post reported on January 11, 2018 that Donald Trump said: “Why are we having all ...
Trump’s “Populism” Resembles Andrew Jackson’s — Who championed “Indian Removal”
The “millions” never showed up for the inauguration Upon his swearing in on January 20, 2017 President Donald Trump said: “We, the citizens of ...
Supreme Court Injustice — GOP Racism Stalls Action
President Obama should have nominated an African American woman to the court to launch the charge “The American people should have a voice ...
Trump: The Hate That GOP Hate Created
Donald Trump — and now the GOP are surprised? “ like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone ...
It’s Time For Independent Progressive Convention
Ras Baraka should host progressive Convention [Commentary] “Our cities are crime-haunted dying grounds. Huge sectors of our youth — and countless others — face ...
2014: The Meaning of July Fourth For The African American
Frederick Douglass From Frederick Douglass’s “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro – 1852”: “I say it with a sad sense of ...
