Margaret Kimberley is a woman of the people. She speaks for the people, and is not encumbered by corporate constraints.  Her weekly column on BC is the best-read item on our menu. We are honored that she writes for us, and writes so well.

She also speaks truth to power, and to the powerless, and to those who purport to speak for the powerless – the false leadership that is subsidized by outside forces.

False leadership comes in various flavors. Sometimes it is licorice, simulating Black. It stains your tongue, but doesn’t tell the truth.

Margaret Kimberley’s weekly columns hit hard – like they’re supposed to do. In the Blackest major city in the nation, Detroit, misguided politicians tried to set aside a few square blocks for Africa Town.  This is crazy. Most of Detroit is “Africa Town.”  The whole city should be developed to serve African Americans. Ms. Kimberley said so, on October 7, 2004:

We must speak the truth, especially to our own people. Halfway measures don’t get us the whole way to freedom and prosperity. And half-ass politics gets us nowhere. Margaret Kimberly spares no one, in the search of truth. Certainly, the Democratic Party, to which Blacks have been wedded for generations, is an actor in the racist game. Senator John Kerry conceded, in the face of massive voting fraud in Ohio, Florida, and many other states, almost before the sun came up on the day after the election. He was complicit in the crime, as Ms. Kimberley wrote on November 11, 2004:

Ms. Kimberley cuts no slack. Nor should any of us. White people are determined to choose our leaders. At Harvard, the leadership factory, a committee of white men decided that a know-nothing, twenty something Black man would be our next leader. His only credentials were that he bad-mouthed Black society.  That seems to please Harvard. So Roland Fryer became the Black flavor of the month, according to the New York Times Magazine.  Margaret Kimberly wasn’t having it, as she explained, in a March 31, 2005 column, “Self Hatred at Harvard”:

Apparently, we don’t do better, because we don’t please white people. Or more accurately, we don’t please white people ensconced in corporate offices. The kind of white people who give money to Harvard, to pay for those racist professors who chose Fryer as our next leader.

The pharmaceutical industry in the United States is a band of bandits, that have forced drug prices in the U.S. to astronomical levels. They are, literally, killing people. The Bush administration, like the Clinton administration before it, has given them a license to do so. Now the NitroMed Corporation, out of Lexington, Massachusetts, is cashing in on the high rate of Black heart disease, a condition that is directly connected to the daily harassment and oppression that is meted out to African Americans every time they step out of the door. Instead of national health insurance, they offer a pill called Bidil. Margaret Kimberly was outraged:

Ms. Kimberley takes on the powers-that-are. She is unafraid, and a heroine of The Black Commentator.

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