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Blacks Must Become Multilingual

If blacks want to avoid becoming a cultural and political afterthought, and I believe we do, then it is an existential imperative that we become multilingual. Blacks must learn to speak the language of education- specifically education reform. It’s not…
Derryck Green
October 19, 2014
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass on 5 July 1852 Occasion: Meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, Rochester Hall, Rochester, N.Y. To illustrate the full shame of slavery, Douglass delivered a speech that took aim at the pieties of the nation --…
Derryck Green
July 4, 2014
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Booker T. Washington

A day late, but still... Booker T. Washington, born April 5, 1856: "I have always been made sad when I have heard members of any race claiming rights or privileges, or certain badges of distinction, on the ground simply that…
Derryck Green
April 6, 2014
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The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether…
Derryck Green
November 19, 2013
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“Rights” Groups

Whenever I see groups who claim to be victims’ rights advocates, I wonder why these people have taken the responsibility of anointing themselves the arbiters and guardians of the so-called rights of specific and politically targeted groups are generally silent…
Derryck Green
January 11, 2013
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Economic Chickens Come Home to Roost

To take a phrase used by President Obama's former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the "chickens are coming home to roost" for Obama and his economic policies. Under Obama's watch, America's middle class is suffering. It was recently revealed that…
Derryck Green
October 31, 2012