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Cain, the GOP's Black Friend, Has Come Undone
In his Daily News column, Stanley Crouch delves into the psyche of the GOP’s support of former presidential contender Herman Cain. He argues that Cain was hit by tribal and racial politics more than anyone cares to acknowledge. Twice as dark as President Obama, Cain proved that white Americans could support one of that tribe…
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Wall Street and Penn State: America Sees Itself More Clearly
In his Daily News column, Stanley Crouch writes that he is pleased with what he calls the enlightenment of America. He cites as examples the Occupy Wall Street protests and the response to the cover-up of child sex-abuse allegations at Penn State. He says that they show a willingness to undergo deep self-examination. Last week,…
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Koch Brothers' Billions Help Them Avoid Reality
GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain is a vessel for the dangerous political and economic ideas of billionaires Charles and David Koch, who use distraction and political manipulation to suit their own profit-driven ends, Stanley Crouch writes in his Daily News column. A continued reliance on oil is just one of their goals, he writes. …
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OWS Highlights Real Problem: Corporations Run Amok
In his Daily News column, Stanley Crouch writes that the Occupy Wall Street movement has made public an awareness that has taken a while to develop — but which can be perfectly understood if one takes the two hours necessary to watch the 2005 documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. He says that…
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Cain and the Koch Brothers: It's About the Bottom Line
Stanley Crouch writes in his New York Daily News column that the billionaire Koch brothers, known for supporting conservative causes, may have overreached by reportedly supporting Herman Cain’s run for the GOP presidential nomination through a group called Americans for Prosperity. He writes that Cain is running a campaign that has no boots on the…
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Muammar Qaddafi's Lavish Life and Lonely Death
Had Col. Muammar Qaddafi been a bit more than a barking dog hidden behind a high fence, perhaps he would have been driven to take his life in the sewage pipe where he was captured, Stanley Crouch writes in his New York Daily News column. In this perceptive analysis of the dictator’s death, Crouch pulls…
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Baracka Flacka Flames and Hip-Hop Minstrelsy
It is always a good time to talk about racism and poisonous images pumping through the mass-media pipeline. What is most interesting is the traditional but unpredictable source of the trouble. Whenever critics point at Tea Party posters of Barack Obama as a witch doctor or as a garishly dressed pimp attending a ball at…
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The Roots of Black Homophobia
Part of Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s tough-guy act is as expected of boxers as it is of rappers, but his recent racist rant against his Filipino opponent, in which he repeatedly called him a faggot, has the clichéd homophobia we also expect of extreme hip-hop. It is part of something bigger and more involved than we…
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'Louis': Music Over Movie Making
A unique and exciting event was held in Harlem at the Apollo, where a full house of listeners came to see Louis, a modern-day silent film about a long-dead jazz legend. They had been lured by the appearance of Wynton Marsalis performing with an 11-piece band. The subject matter — trumpeter Louis Armstrong — seemed…
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Civil Rights' Most Misunderstood Moment: The Freedom Rides
Every great once in a while, something like Stanley Nelson’s wonderful documentary Freedom Riders appears and is so good that it exhausts all common versions of praise. In it, Nelson and his crew take on a period of history usually misunderstood: a particularly dramatic series of events in 1961, known as the Freedom Rides, when…
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