The High Court Goes Low
Published by BlackCommentator.com on July 6, 2023 The now clearly consolidated conservative U.S. Supreme Court ended its term in a blaze of catastrophic, far-reaching decisions. The three Democratically appointed women were solid in trying to hold back the right-wing wave but to no avail. Their attempts to uphold their judicial responsibility in the face of […]
Protecting Juneteenth from the Jaws of Consumer Capitalism
Published by BlackCommentator.com on June 22, 2023 Now that we’ve had a couple of years of the Juneteenth holiday, I have some observations to share. President Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into law as a federal holiday in 2021. If we don’t grab the reigns of this run-away horse, descendants of enslaved Africans risk losing the […]
Working People are the Losers in the Debt Ceiling Agreement
Published by BlackCommentator.com, June 8, 2023 Your president recently signed the bi-partisan legislation which brought the country’s potential default to a screeching halt. After weeks of political posturing and wretched wrangling over the current $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, Joe Biden held his signing pen up in victory. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy beat his chest […]