[The ctual title was "Liberal Bad Faith," also apropos, but it is hard to miss the Palestine-African America connection that both Reed and Steinberg might reject from their class-only perspective. Regardless of our disgreements, this is an extremely important article. -SG]

BY Adolph Reed & Stephen Steinberg

So, Barbara Bush was right after all when she said, “So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.” And Rep. Richard Baker, a 10-term Republican from Baton Rouge, was right when he was overheard telling lobbyists: “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”

In 1829, AfroMexican President Vicente Guerrero signed a decree banning slavery in the Mexican Republic. There are, of course, many angles from which to view the escalating immigration debate. Mexican immigrants, who constitute the largest share of the undocumented, have a unique history with the African population inside the United States. As the Black community weighs in on this very contentious issue, it becomes necessary for us – both black and brown – to review the history that we share.

De put me onto this exchange from Eurotrib. When we really really really really need to express our hatred toward The Other, nothing is better than rape.