How to Kill a Man
What is the best way to kill a man with the least effort on our part and that would give him the quickest, most painless, end — while saving us the most money?
Taking the Mechanism Out of Man
In 1931, George Orwell wrote a magnificent essay simply entitled, “A Hanging.” That piece is a hauntingly simple story of a prison execution. There is no fantasy in the dying and we are made real and substantial witnesses.
Are Nooses Hate Crimes?
The Jena 6 happening brought nooses back to the mainstream mindset and we now seem to be in the midst of a media frenzy where nooses are seen everywhere and people are put on edge just waiting to be insulted by a length of knotted rope so they can express their indignant outrage.
The Lesson in Lynching Black Children
It there a lesson to be learned in the semiotic lynching of Black children on the campus of Grambling State University?
Jena is No Selma and the Politics of Boredom
The march on Jena, Louisiana yesterday is being compared by some in the Black community as a “modern day” march on Selma, Alabama in 1965 and Jena is serving as a political sounding board for Jesse Jackson to accuse Barack Obama of “Acting White” for not supporting the “Jena 6.”
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