Jul 1, 2010 - Issue 382 To select, click on the dot to the left of your choice Cover Story: Are We Not Patriots, Too? - Inclusion - By The Reverend Irene Monroe Summer is A-Comin’ In By Nancy Littlefield, BlackCommentator.com Managing Editor Political Cartoon: Arizona Xenophobia By Eric Garcia, Albuquerque NM Read breaking news stories chosen by BC on twitterand facebook (no twitteror facebook account needed) The US Social Forum: The Anti-Tea Party Experience - The African World - By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Class Warfare: The Vatican is the Biggest Player! - Represent Our Resistance - By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Republican Radicals Reject Unemployment Fund Extension - African American Leadership - By Dr. Ron Walters, PhD The Obama Presidency: An Unfolding Disaster - Keeping it Real - By Larry Pinkney Supreme Court Hearings Remind Us of What’s at Stake - The Color of Law - By David A. Love, JD Art: Summertime Groove By Kadir Nelson, San Diego CA Stirring of Chinese Workers Bodes Ill for Cheap Imports - Solidarity America - By John Funiciello One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong - Justice Watch - By Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond Saving The African Marketplace in Los Angeles - Between the Lines - By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Too Many Black Kids Can’t Swim. Can Yours? - Black Married Momma The Anti-Statistic By K. Danielle Edwards Art: Glass Houses By Shepard Farey, Los Angeles CA Straight Hair, Flat Culture: Fear and Loathing of Black Sexuality By David Masciotra Political Cartoon: G20 Emissions Discussion By Zapiro, South Africa Quote to Ponder: "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?..." - Frederick Douglass "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" - Speech by Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852