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The long hot summer begins soon, more young people out on the streets, sounds of music, laughter in the air, the smell of back yard barbecues, schools out. A few students who leave school may not return for class for one reason or another this fall, some may drop out, enlist in service, sadly, during the summer break, one or more of our young men and ladies will be killed.

Rev. Wright’s Just Doing His Job

Why all the hoopla about Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Of course he challenges the status quo and the power structure. That’s his JOB! There is no change for the better without people like Jeremiah Wright, Harriett Tubman, Martin Luther King, and yes, even Jesus Christ.

In regards to the three New York Police Department detectives acquitted in the [Sean Bell] shooting, I was not there - neither at the scene nor the trial. I can’t judge what might have prompted the officers to shoot. However, on this I can speak: What inner fear or loathing caused these supposedly protectors of the people to react so quickly and to fire so many rounds into the victim? That is the [question] that I wish the news analysts, defenders of the police and the public-at-large to consider.

Rev. Barbara Reynolds' recent commentary included examples of help given African-Americans by the Clintons during his administration. Unfortunately, the commentary did not include actions taken during the Clinton administration that were anything but helpful to African-Americans.

Why support Obama?

Are Blacks willing to mortgage their future just because a Black man is running for president? We may be, but we don’t know it. Senator Barack Obama was an unknown commodity before he won the Senate race in Illinois against disgraced incumbent Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald.

I’ve neither seen nor heard Senators Clinton’s or Obama’s stump speeches, and so rely on media reports. Accordingly, I’m perplexed by the Obama phenomena, the attraction of his “change” message

Struggling to make sense of debate...

I struggled to make sense of the debate about how what Minister Louis Farrakhan thinks about Jews will bear upon how well Barack Obama will manage himself as president.