Charles D. Ellison
By Charles D. Ellison
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Opinion How hitting Bloomberg on Stop and Frisk could backfire with Black voters
Going into Wednesday night’s pre-caucus debate in Nevada, former New York City mayor and current presidential contender Michael Bloomberg must have know he’d get grilled over “Stop and Frisk”, the policy implemented during his time as mayor whereby young Black and Latino men were regularly thrown up against a wall by police absent any justification….
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Opinion Can Elizabeth Warren Win The Black Vote?
As the Democratic primary for the 2020 election heats up and candidates drop like flies, two candidates appear to be heading towards a face-off: former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren. According to a Morning Consult and RealClearPolitics averaging, Biden is still ahead by a comfortable range of 10-12 percentage points. And…
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Opinion The Democratic Candidates Are Failing Black Voters
How do you have a world-viewed, prime-time presidential primary debate for a major political party in Detroit — and then just kind of gloss over Detroit? You have Democrats lead it. Two nights of sometimes contentious, sometimes fumbling debates between presidential wannabes yielded no honesty about the true state of things in Detroit. Candidates seemed…
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Opinion Trump Has Resurrected “Go Back To Africa” And It’s Uglier Than Ever
Resorting to fresh new lows, President Trump threw a remix on what is arguably the angry white lynch mob’s greatest racist hit: “go back to Africa.” He didn’t say that, verbatim. But in a burst of callous tweet aimed at Congress’ only Somalia-born Member – “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally…
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Opinion Race – But Not Justice – Were The Winners At The Democratic Debates
On Thursday, the Supreme Court stuck a country club steak knife deep into the gut of democracy when it barred challenges to gerrymandering. But somehow, voting rights — preserving the integrity of the American political process — did not come up as a topic. NBC moderators didn’t even bother to ask about it on what…
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Opinion How Long Will Black People Have To Wait To Be Truly Liberated?
With fresh eyes, some might argue there is less Juneteenth to celebrate in 2019 than there was in 1865. Perhaps that is true. Perhaps not: there’s a bit of selfish audaciousness in that reflection, comparing the lives of 21st century African Americans who, at least, can exercise basic freedom of movement, to the lives of…
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Opinion Our Schools Are More Segregated – And More Discriminatory – Than Ever
This past February, an 11-year-old Black child who was arrested at his school in Lakeland, Florida for choosing to sit quietly during the Pledge of Allegiance. You read that right. While it wasn’t the first time the student had sat for the Pledge, the substitute teacher leading the class that day took particular offense. Rather…
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Opinion Ilhan Omar Can Fix This. Here’s How.
The dust is settling from a recent brouhaha surrounding problematic remarks by freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota about money from pro-Israel lobbyists and foreign “allegiances.” The comments earned Omar censure from her fellow House Democrats for evoking anti-Semitic clichés. Omar also had many critics on the right, who took her words as an opportunity…
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