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Leonce Gaiter's literary thriller, "In the Company of Educated Men," was published by Astor + Blue Editions in 2014. His historical novel, "I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang" was published September 2011. His nonfiction has appeared in The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and in national syndication. His thriller "Bourbon Street" was published by Carroll & Graf and is currently available in ebook formats.
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
A 21st Century Defense of the Age-old Pillars of White Identity The ancient insistence on black intellectual inferiority, and thus black sub-humanity, is getting a new coat of paint from "race scientists." It's just a new gloss on the same old racist jalopy.
Sunday, April 29, 2018A 21st Century Defense of the Age-old Pillars of White Identity The ancient insistence on black intellectual inferiority, and thus black sub-humanity, is getting a new coat of paint from "race scientists." It's just a new gloss on the same old racist jalopy.
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Monday, February 26, 2018
Black History Month Across the Chasm of American History The reasons why the much-anticipated "national conversation about race" never happens.
Monday, February 26, 2018Black History Month Across the Chasm of American History The reasons why the much-anticipated "national conversation about race" never happens.
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
Scalise and His Defenders Legitimize the White Supremacist Agenda Louisiana Representative Steve Scalise's regard of David Duke's white supremacist organization as just another constituency lays bare the foundations of the conservative movement's post-civil rights era disregard for African-American rights.
Thursday, January 1, 2015Scalise and His Defenders Legitimize the White Supremacist Agenda Louisiana Representative Steve Scalise's regard of David Duke's white supremacist organization as just another constituency lays bare the foundations of the conservative movement's post-civil rights era disregard for African-American rights.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Learning to Evade the "Black Tax" on Our Stories I wanted to explore this group and their extraordinary turn of the century milieu, but I didn't dare. How could I so baldly invoke stereotypical Black Buck in the form of a young half-black, half-Indian man who was hanged for the rape of a white woman? Did I dare tell a story in which a black male turns his fury outward at his oppressors as opposed to turning it inward on himself?
Wednesday, September 7, 2011Learning to Evade the "Black Tax" on Our Stories I wanted to explore this group and their extraordinary turn of the century milieu, but I didn't dare. How could I so baldly invoke stereotypical Black Buck in the form of a young half-black, half-Indian man who was hanged for the rape of a white woman? Did I dare tell a story in which a black male turns his fury outward at his oppressors as opposed to turning it inward on himself?
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
With Traditional Publishing Dies the Passive Writer-Victim Writers used to sit passively and wait for publishing conglomerates to anoint them. Today, with the dissolution of traditional publishing, writers have to do more. We need to learn the tools of our trade just as musicians have to learn to navigate recording devices and playwrights have to know theater techniques. The day of the passive writer-victim is over.
Saturday, July 9, 2011With Traditional Publishing Dies the Passive Writer-Victim Writers used to sit passively and wait for publishing conglomerates to anoint them. Today, with the dissolution of traditional publishing, writers have to do more. We need to learn the tools of our trade just as musicians have to learn to navigate recording devices and playwrights have to know theater techniques. The day of the passive writer-victim is over.
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Obama's Presidency Can't be Transformative; He's a Democrat Time has passed and it's time to deal with it: Obama is not and will not be a "transformative" president. Never wanted to. Never will. He accepts that some progressive ideals are beneficial, but hasn't sufficient conviction to fight decidedly for them. In that, he represents his party. In that, polling says that he is a typical Democrat.
Monday, June 7, 2010Obama's Presidency Can't be Transformative; He's a Democrat Time has passed and it's time to deal with it: Obama is not and will not be a "transformative" president. Never wanted to. Never will. He accepts that some progressive ideals are beneficial, but hasn't sufficient conviction to fight decidedly for them. In that, he represents his party. In that, polling says that he is a typical Democrat.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Our Media is "Post-reason," and We Dutifully Follow The web is a visual medium. It grows more similar to television while it severs ties to traditional reading and increases its dominance of our political conversation. It is the bitterest of ironies that a format once touted as heralding a new era of enlightened participatory democracy is picking up where television left off and doing infinitely more to erode traditional American democratic ideals than to promote them
Tuesday, May 25, 2010Our Media is "Post-reason," and We Dutifully Follow The web is a visual medium. It grows more similar to television while it severs ties to traditional reading and increases its dominance of our political conversation. It is the bitterest of ironies that a format once touted as heralding a new era of enlightened participatory democracy is picking up where television left off and doing infinitely more to erode traditional American democratic ideals than to promote them
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Arizona, Ethnic Studies and White Christian Perfection If Arizona's white legislators want to erase ethnic-specific education, they should close every school in the state, for most of their curricula are white-specific. But of course, the goal is to ensure that black and brown children continue to see the world only from the majority's point-of-view, continue to -see the majority through the traditional American Christian prism--closer -to God, good and pure--clean and right.
Thursday, May 13, 2010Arizona, Ethnic Studies and White Christian Perfection If Arizona's white legislators want to erase ethnic-specific education, they should close every school in the state, for most of their curricula are white-specific. But of course, the goal is to ensure that black and brown children continue to see the world only from the majority's point-of-view, continue to -see the majority through the traditional American Christian prism--closer -to God, good and pure--clean and right.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Bettye LaVette: The High Priestess of Love and Death With her album "Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook," Bettye LaVette proves herself one of the best singers alive. If you're looking for some disposable, distracting background music, keep going. It's not here. This is the tent in the carnival it kind of scares you to enter. It's the gypsy woman who, from the look in her eye, you fear knows too much and might tell you something you dread to hear.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010Bettye LaVette: The High Priestess of Love and Death With her album "Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook," Bettye LaVette proves herself one of the best singers alive. If you're looking for some disposable, distracting background music, keep going. It's not here. This is the tent in the carnival it kind of scares you to enter. It's the gypsy woman who, from the look in her eye, you fear knows too much and might tell you something you dread to hear.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Bob McDonnell Blows the Racist Dog Whistle Really Really Loud Let's consider: We are regularly invited to "celebrate" black history month (absurd as the idea may be in its conception and execution). Virginia's Governor Bob McDonnell did not ask his state's citizens to "celebrate" "Confederate History Month." He simply "declared" its existence, leaving the celebratory aspect aspirated to the level of the dog whistle (an apt metaphor considering his audience).
Wednesday, April 7, 2010Bob McDonnell Blows the Racist Dog Whistle Really Really Loud Let's consider: We are regularly invited to "celebrate" black history month (absurd as the idea may be in its conception and execution). Virginia's Governor Bob McDonnell did not ask his state's citizens to "celebrate" "Confederate History Month." He simply "declared" its existence, leaving the celebratory aspect aspirated to the level of the dog whistle (an apt metaphor considering his audience).
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Putting Aside a Scandal-Ridden Church, Among Other Childish Things With evidence that the current Pope enabled the rape of children by his priests through inaction, it is appropriate to examine the Church's suitability to dictate morality and spirituality to the rest of the world.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010Putting Aside a Scandal-Ridden Church, Among Other Childish Things With evidence that the current Pope enabled the rape of children by his priests through inaction, it is appropriate to examine the Church's suitability to dictate morality and spirituality to the rest of the world.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Tearing Down the Walls: In Praise of Joe Henry If you don't know him, check out Joe Henry. He is a shockingly talented man making music that can make you giddy. He is a shockingly talented man who can break your heart.
Thursday, March 25, 2010Tearing Down the Walls: In Praise of Joe Henry If you don't know him, check out Joe Henry. He is a shockingly talented man making music that can make you giddy. He is a shockingly talented man who can break your heart.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
The White Right to Call Me "Ni**er" The deeper point--the ones the tea partiers haven't courage nor the brains to see--is that our technological age has laid bare a core fact of American life: that our corporatist state uses white men and women just like it uses black, brown and yellow ones--as cannon fodder. There is little "upward mobility." Your children probably won't live as well as you, much less better. They stole your future itself
Sunday, March 21, 2010The White Right to Call Me "Ni**er" The deeper point--the ones the tea partiers haven't courage nor the brains to see--is that our technological age has laid bare a core fact of American life: that our corporatist state uses white men and women just like it uses black, brown and yellow ones--as cannon fodder. There is little "upward mobility." Your children probably won't live as well as you, much less better. They stole your future itself
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Obama: Averse to Leadership and a Lousy Politician to Boot Obama is akin to the Captain on a ship under attack who turns to the crew, bloodied bodies all around, and tells them to do what they think best. It's time for the verdict. Obama ran a great campaign, but he is no leader, and he's an abominable politician.
Thursday, February 11, 2010Obama: Averse to Leadership and a Lousy Politician to Boot Obama is akin to the Captain on a ship under attack who turns to the crew, bloodied bodies all around, and tells them to do what they think best. It's time for the verdict. Obama ran a great campaign, but he is no leader, and he's an abominable politician.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Note to O'Reilly: Women Deserve Protections-Fetuses Don't The woman's rights/pro-choice crowd needs to stop accepting the right-wing frame for this debate. When asked if fetuses deserve rights, the answer is: Women deserve rights-including protection from people who would force them to use their bodies in ways they know to be harmful to their well being, their loved ones, and their lives.
Saturday, June 20, 2009Note to O'Reilly: Women Deserve Protections-Fetuses Don't The woman's rights/pro-choice crowd needs to stop accepting the right-wing frame for this debate. When asked if fetuses deserve rights, the answer is: Women deserve rights-including protection from people who would force them to use their bodies in ways they know to be harmful to their well being, their loved ones, and their lives.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
At Obama's Rise, Praise King's Movement, and Bury It The fact of being a half-black man raised exclusively by whites and often in brown-skinned, culturally unique environments (Indonesia, Hawaii) helped Barack Obama win the Presidency. This strange background also prevents him from acting as a direct model for most American blacks. We don't have white parents and guardians or non-American fathers. However, we can adapt his model to suit our needs.
Monday, January 19, 2009At Obama's Rise, Praise King's Movement, and Bury It The fact of being a half-black man raised exclusively by whites and often in brown-skinned, culturally unique environments (Indonesia, Hawaii) helped Barack Obama win the Presidency. This strange background also prevents him from acting as a direct model for most American blacks. We don't have white parents and guardians or non-American fathers. However, we can adapt his model to suit our needs.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Blacks, Gays and the Myth of the Saintly Oppressed Underlying the black/gay divide in the post-Prop. 8 world was the illusion that minorities minorities are somehow naturally predisposed or sociologically obligated to display fewer negative human traits than straight white men. But that's a gross, convenient myth. Oppression does not enlighten. It degrades.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009Blacks, Gays and the Myth of the Saintly Oppressed Underlying the black/gay divide in the post-Prop. 8 world was the illusion that minorities minorities are somehow naturally predisposed or sociologically obligated to display fewer negative human traits than straight white men. But that's a gross, convenient myth. Oppression does not enlighten. It degrades.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
America Can't Handle the Truth; But it's Coming Anyway With the economy in freefall and American livelihoods and ways of life in sincere jeopardy for the first time in a generation, much of the press and the American public aren't making the adjustment from the trivial "get rich quick" economic Bubble Years to the new pre-depression. Unfortunately, denial won't solve the problem. It just makes the fall all the more shocking.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008America Can't Handle the Truth; But it's Coming Anyway With the economy in freefall and American livelihoods and ways of life in sincere jeopardy for the first time in a generation, much of the press and the American public aren't making the adjustment from the trivial "get rich quick" economic Bubble Years to the new pre-depression. Unfortunately, denial won't solve the problem. It just makes the fall all the more shocking.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
A Somewhat More Visible Man Rivers of black blood have been spilled. My parents and theirs fought and died to rip their rights from the majority's avaricious grasp. To justify their illegal hold, the majority belittled, dehumanized, brutalized and sometimes killed me and mine. So I have often wondered what it might mean to feel fully American. Today, I, a black descendant of African slaves, get a glimpse...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008A Somewhat More Visible Man Rivers of black blood have been spilled. My parents and theirs fought and died to rip their rights from the majority's avaricious grasp. To justify their illegal hold, the majority belittled, dehumanized, brutalized and sometimes killed me and mine. So I have often wondered what it might mean to feel fully American. Today, I, a black descendant of African slaves, get a glimpse...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Black Blindness on Proposition 8 According to a SurveyUSA poll, 58% of black voters support Proposition 8, which would enshrine irrational fear and rank bigotry into the California Constitution in order to deny gays the right to marry. Black support is 10% higher than support of any other ethnic group. This is ironic, to say the least.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008Black Blindness on Proposition 8 According to a SurveyUSA poll, 58% of black voters support Proposition 8, which would enshrine irrational fear and rank bigotry into the California Constitution in order to deny gays the right to marry. Black support is 10% higher than support of any other ethnic group. This is ironic, to say the least.
