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Transcript of All Commentaries for November-December 2005**
COMMENTARY
#1
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In 1918,
the all-black 369th Regiment of the U.S. Army
Expeditionary Force in France had what contributing Wall
Street Journal columnist Eric Felten calls “the most
celebrated military band of World War One.” This is Jay
Parker with the Lincoln Institute in Washington, D.C. – the
independent voice of freedom in the black community. The
man who organized this band was the gifted black leader and
song writer of a favorite New York society orchestra named
James Reese Europe who made a hit with Allied troops by
featuring band marches with the beat of jazz and a
forerunner taste of what would become swing.
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COMMENTARY
#2
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Anyone old enough to grow up with the Tonight
Show on NBC Television in the 1950s and ‘60s, built around
such late-night stars as Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny
Carson, is bound to remember band maestro Skitch Henderson
who died at age 87, November 1st. This is Jay
Parker with the Lincoln Institute in Washington, D.C. – the
independent voice of freedom in the black community.
Skitch was the network’s musical mainstay from 1954 to
1966. His career featured a lot of lucky breaks and musical
association with such stars as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank
Sinatra and Judy Garland.
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COMMENTARY
#3
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President George W. Bush did an unexpectedly
courageous thing on his way to visit China in November. At
key stops in Kyoto, Japan, and Pusan, South Korea, the
President lauded democracy in Taiwan and hopes for more
freedom of religion and politics in Communist China. This
is Jay Parker with the Lincoln Institute in Washington, D.C.
the independent voice of freedom in the black
community. After visiting with Chinese leaders in
Beuijing he became the first U.S. President, while in
office, to visit the Democratic Republic of Mongolia where
he praised their leaders and soldiers for helping in Iraq.
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COMMENTARY #4
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Forgive the
fact this particular report is a very personal story but it
just might interest a few of you, especially if you remember
the Mohammed Ali - George Foreman boxing showdown of a few
decades ago. This is Jay Parker with the Lincoln
Institute in Washington, D.C. the independent voice of
freedom in the black community. My wife and one of my
daughters were in the Bahamas recently and met up with hotel
owner and developer Sol Kerzner with whom I had once
negotiated in South Africa when I briefly but unsuccessfully
held a contract for sponsoring that classic 1974 fight.
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COMMENTARY
#5
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The
literature of ancient history often refers mysteriously to
the Nubian blacks of Egyptian civilization but we know
little about them. This is Jay Parker with the Lincoln
Institute in Washington, D.C. the independent voice of
freedom in the black community. . The December issue of
DISCOVER magazine tells us that for at least three score
years of the Eighth Century B.C. the Egyptian empire was
ruled by black kings from Nubia who held together the
religious and political power that Egyptian dynasties had
cobbled together over nearly three millennia to create one
of the world’s first and greatest civilizations. Complete
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COMMENTARY
#6
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The passing of Rosa Parks
in late October has encouraged some very thoughtful writers
and historians to bring to the fore some of the realities
that occurred before the Alabama NAACP bookkeeper’s refusal
to relinquish her bus seat for a white man. This
is Jay Parker with the Lincoln Institute in Washington, D.C.
the independent voice of freedom in the black community. Four years before Ms. Parks heroics, 16-year-old
Barbara Jones led her High
School classmates on a two-week strike for an integrated
school in segregated Farmville, Virginia. The case was one
of five reviewed by the
Supreme
Court to end segregation in 1954.
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COMMENTARY #7
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President
Richard M. Ebeling of the Foundation for Economic Education
(FEE) reminds Americans not to forget when “economic
fascism” threatened to subvert the U.S. and our freedoms.
This is Jay Parker with the Lincoln Institute in Washington,
D.C. the independent voice of freedom in the black
community.
Ebeling recalls that following
the March 1933 Inauguration of President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, FDR completely reversed his successful campaign
promises about trimming the federal government’s bloated
size, reducing the excessive tax load and cutting much of
the Government’s spending profligacy.
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COMMENTARY #8
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Zimbabwe’s
President Mugabe forced all white farmers to leave so his
people are now starving. Next door in Mozambique, they asked
white farmers to come settle. This is Jay Parker with the
Lincoln Institute in Washington, D.C. the independent voice
of freedom in the black community. Mozambique learned
from their own sad experience thirty years ago that Marxist
dictatorships which force an exodus of white farmers from
African states where the native population is ill-prepared
and untrained to manage modern farm operations, will become
real losers. Mozambique’s new political leaders have
eagerly sought the farming talent Mugabe kicked out.
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COMMENTARY
#9
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Ninety years before the horror stories
emerging these days from Africa an American poet wrote about
“tattooed cannibals” who “danced to the boom of the
blood-lust song.” This is Jay Parker with the Lincoln
Institute in Washington, D.C. the independent voice of
freedom in the black community. The latest horror story
out of Africa is that of a self-proclaimed Ugandan “prophet”
who calls himself “Lord,” named Joseph Kony. He is believed
to have been funded by Sudan to lead a rebel army against
Uganda after that country’s leaders sent support to the
Arab-harassed and beleaguered black Christians in southern
Sudan. Complete
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