FABLES NOT WORTH TELLING
Slavery was good for blacks. It wasn't about race. It was justified in the Bible. American slaves were better treated than slaves anywhere else in the world. Black slaves suffered...
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NEW `BLAXPLOITATION’ FILM SENDS CONFUSING MESSAGE
Blaxploitation is back, but this time with a twist, a very timely twist. Film critics coined "blaxploitation," short for "black exploitation," to describe the genre of low-budget black action movies...
A SON’S HARDEST LESSON
Your 6-year-old son has been playing quietly with Power Rangers and his other beloved action figures on the recreation room carpet. Suddenly his face, a little peachy-cheeked replica of your...
WILL DOLE’S OLIVE BRANCH TO POOR HURT HIS PRESIDENTIAL BID?
Bob Dole has come up with a brilliant idea for reforming public housing. Unfortunately it's the same idea the Clinton administration came up with a year ago, just before Dole's...
MADONNA BASHERS SHOULD BE SINGING ANOTHER TUNE
I wish people would get off Madonna's case. Ever since the 37-year-old Material Girl announced she is having a material child without making a stop at the altar first, people...
COUNTER RACISM WITH FAITH AND OPTIMISM
Racial discrimination has declined. African-Americans are gaining power and prominence in areas of American life where we could not even have gotten a job 30 years ago. Has the time...
NEWS MEDIA SHOWN TO HAVE A BIAS AGAINST SOLUTIONS
I once saw a bumper sticker that read, "The media are as liberal as the corporations that own them." I'd like to give one to House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Stepping...
LOOSE LIPS
As anti-Semites go, Marlon Brando isn't very good at it. For one thing, he doesn't hate Jews. Quite the opposite, he admires Jews deeply. Passionately. In his recent, rambling appearance...
A TRAGEDY THAT DID NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN
After 7-year-old Jessica Dubroff's quest to become the world's youngest cross-country pilot ended in a fatal crash, an intriguing question crossed my mind: What if she had made it? Would...
SOUND BITES AND THE PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO KNOW
Rupert Murdoch has the right idea. Earlier this year the Australian-born international media baron offered Americans a taste of what the British have enjoyed for decades: Free air time right...