Essays by John Burl Smith

Listed below are essays on issues in the dialogue on race from Mr. John Burl Smith's unique perspective.

 

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Volume 13……………………..2010

Issue 1 Slave Descendants Deserve a GGGR

Arguments of the Past Foreshadow Today Issue 2

Issue 3 Growing Generations for Jail

A Battle Worth Fighting Issue 4

Issue 5 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

What a Difference a Year Makes! Issue 5

Issue 6  Your Cereal May Be Hazardous to World Health

Issue 6 WSF: Another View of the World

GMO Franken Foods are Deadly Issue 7

Codex Alimentarius: Savior or Satan Issue 7

Issue 8 Georgia on the Bottom Again

Governor Passes the Buck on Transportation Issue 8

Issue 8 Here He Comes Again

America and Banana Republics Issue 9

Guatemala's Faces of Climate Change Issue 9

Issue 10 Counting the Undercounted

A Hellish Dichotomy Issue 10

Issue 11 Manipulating Democracy

Giants Stand Issue 12

Issue 13 Slave Descendants in South America

Lay it at the Feet of the EU

Food or Fuel

Marginalized Afro-Venezuelans

Open Letter to: The Honorable Alex Van Meeuwen, President UN Human Rights Council (Excerpts) Issue 14

Universal Periodic Review

Issue 15 The Usefulness of a Dialogue on Race

Educating Slaves and Their Descendants Issue 16

HBCUs: Surviving Against the Odds

The Real Benefits of HBCUs

Issue 17 A New Psychology and Philosophy

From Beyond the Grave

Geniuses or Drug Addicts Issue 18

The Adderall Cost: Side Effects

Issue 20 The Gates Deception

David Walker (1785-1830)

What's Up with Africa and China? Issue 22

Issue 23 Assault on Humanitarian Sensibility

The Telescopic View of the West

We Have Seen This Play Before Issue 24

Issue 25 Law, Immigration, Sovereignty and Indigenous People

A Continuing Dilemma: Slavery Issue 26

 

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Volume 12……………………..2009

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Issue 1 Eleven Years and Looking Forward

Issue 2 Racism:  Numbers Don’t Lie

Private Prisons: Neo-Slavery

The Hidden Secret of Private Prisons

Issue 3 An Overlooked War for Dignity

Issue 4 Healthcare

Issue 5 One Among Millions

Pictorial Highlights of One Among Millions Issue 6

For Those Who Have Forgotten or Never Knew Issue 6

A Secretary of Art Issue 6

Infrastructure of Discrimination Issue 7

Bailing Out the 3/5 Compromise Issue 8

The Census:  How We Count and Why Issue 8

Haiti:  Let Them Eat Cake Issue 9

Does America Have the Courage of Bolivia? Issue 9

Haiti:  The Lost Promise of Freedom Issue 9

Issue 10 Blacks and Hollywood

Issue 10 Greatest Threats to World Stability:  Food, Population and Poverty

Issue 10  A Glimpse of the Future

Vertical Integration Run Amok Issue 11

A Slow Hand of Help for Haiti Issue 11

Jewish Solidarity with Muslims against Zionism Issue 12

Issue 12   Jewish Domination of American Media

Racial Disparities and Health Outcomes Issue 13

Issue 13 African Americans, Slavery and Health Outcomes

Issue 14 Race and Waffles Warmed Over

The Sky Fell on Chicken Little and Change is Dead! Issue 14

Black on the Red Cover-Up Issue 15

Issue 16  3/5 Compromised Graduation Rates

More about Prisons and Black Men Issue 16

Issue 17 Thoughts and Questions for Madam President

Obama Administration Stands with Banks Issue 18

Issue 19 Talking from Both Sides of One’s Mouth

Issue 20 Trying Youths as Adults

Caught by Surprise Issue 21

We Got Work to Do Issue 21

Issue 22 Are Bees Canaries in the Mine?

Man-Made Chemicals Remaking Man Issue 22

Issue 23 Fighting High Tax Appraisals

Environmental Racism:  The American Way Issue 24

Food Inc.:  Environmental Artistry Issue 25

Issue 26 Kucinich Sticks to His Guns

Bamako:  A Different Take on Africa  Issue 27

Abderrahmane Sissako:  In His Words

Issue 28 Ode to the Power of Words

Primates Atop the Food Chain Issue 29

Can Humans Learn from Monkeys

Issue 30 Slavery and Discrimination

Honoring Willie May Gray on Her Birthday

Obama Caught in the Gates of Racism

He was Marvelously Helped  Issue 31

Issue 33  America’s Bloody Hands

Who Pushed the Button

Issue 34 The New Hope of Africa

Pan Africanism

Issue 35  SS:  Social Security or Sheep Shearing

Issue 36 Reversal of Fortune for Troy

Scalia’s Dissent

Issue 37  American Imperialism Uncloaked

Issue 38  Vibe Updated:  Kamal Symonette Dixon

Issue 39 Goldstone’s Views Shaped by Holocaust

Israel Guilty of War Crimes

Issue 40  A General’s Prognosis or Postmortem

Issue 41 The Tyranny of War

Issue 42  There are Bombs and There are Bombs

Issue 43 Why Derivatives are Toxic Assests

Brooksley Born:  The Woman Who Cried Wolf

The Business Plot Issue 45

United States’ Robot Assassins Issue 46

Issue 47 Obama Meets with Native Americans

More Money to Collect…Unpaid Oil Royalties

Issue 48 UN Rapporteur on Institutionalized Racism

Economic Discrimination Against African Americans

A Review:  Institutionalized Racism in Law Schools Issue 49

Issue 50 Atlanta:  New Hope or Just Another Deception

French Apartheid in Guadeloupe Issue 51

Issue 52 Eastern Europe:  Footprint of American Greed

A Tremor in the EU

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Volume 11……………………..2008

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Issue 1 Update on Grady

Issue 2 Going Down Jericho Road

South Carolina A Real Question Issue 3

Commemorating the Ending of Slavery Issue 4

A Giant that Walks Among Men Issue 8

The Rebirth of Soulville, USA Issue 8

Issue 9 An Invisible Giant

Issue 10 The Invaders – The Beginning

Archangel:  Hope and Black People Issue 11

Education and the New Dark Age Issue 13

Issue 16 Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Issue 16 Reflections from King Week in Memphis

Issue 17 The Dream Reborn Conference

Issue 17 FIRST Robotics:  A Kids’ Games

Issue 17 What is the Green Economy All About?

Parity Lost Issue 18

Swastika, Nooses and the Star of David Issue 19

Redding’s Family Visits Stax Soulville USA Issue 19

Issue  22 A Deserving Family Honored

STAX:  The Family Issue 22

A Chance to Heal Issue 23

Issue 24 Dream World or Green World

A Blue-Green Alliance is Born Issue 24

How We Got Here:  A Human Story Issue 25

Issue 26 Along the Way America Lost Its Way

A Brief Window of Hope Issue 28

US and Bioenergy Company Torpedo Food Summit  Issue 29

Welfare to Learned Helplessness Issue 30

UN Weighs in against Demolishing Public Housing Issue 30

The Wilmington, North Carolina Riot (1898)  Issue 31

The Salute Seen Around the World Issue 32

While We Slept Issue 34

Deadly Water Issue 35

Issue 36 Flushing Students Down the Tube

Issue 37 Mr. and Mrs. F:  Your Next Door Neighbors

Issue 37 How Did Mr. and Mrs. F Become Such Spendthrifts

Issue 38 Oil Domination:  A New Kind of Global Terrorism!

Issue 38 Ike-ing Gas Prices

Issue 39 Bulls Stampeding Bears

Issue 39 Lehman Brothers:  The Asian Contagion Us Style

Issue 40 Where We Diverge

Issue 40 The Unfolding of an Economic Crisis

Issue 40 President’s Plunge Protection Team

Issue 40 Anatomy of a Political Dirty Trickster

Issue 41 Why We Struggle

Free to Do What By Doug Holloway

Issue 42 Global Green USA

Issue 42 It’s Not Rocket Science; It’s Economics

Issue 43 Tax Appraisals, Over-Priced Land and Foreclosures

Issue 44 Senator Ted Stevens:  Arrogance of Power

Issue 45 “Post-Racial” or the Old Denial Syndrome

Issue 45 Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Ernest C. Withers

Issue 46 The Price of Fame

Issue 47 Part of the Paradigm

The Written Legacy of Rev. Hosea L. Williams

Issue 48 Bailing Out the 3/5 Compromise

Issue 49 A Year Late and a Few Trillion Dollars Short

Lions for Lambs

Issue 50 Charity, the Poor and Human Rights

The Great Debaters

Issue 51 3/5 Compromised by TV Networks

Alicia Key and The Secret Life of Bees

Issue 52 From Homeless to Icon

Volume 10 ……………………..2007

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¨Who Does He Serve? Issue 1¨

¨After Say It Loud   Issue 3¨

¨Deception…Issue 4¨

¨Death Throes of War… Issue 4¨

¨Generals or Civilians:  Who’s in Charge?   Issue 5 ¨

¨Building a Political Base  Issue 6 ¨

Understanding the Question   Issue 7

A Friend   Issue 8

Just Shoot the Number  Issue 9

Blood-for-Oil  Issue 10

Illusion and Freedom  Issue 13

Hole in the Donut  Issue 14

2008:  Year of the Train  Issue 15

Sobering Truth in SOBA  Issue 18

It’s All About the Debt  Issue 19

The Real Story Behind the Assassination  Issue 19

From the 13th Amendment to Abu Ghraib  Issue 20

Texas:  A Hellhole of Abuse  Issue 20

Copper John’s Healing Jewelry  Issue 21

Bebop Past and Future  Issue 21

A Disguised Language  Issue 24

From Disguised Language to Hip Hop  Issue 24

Self-Perpetuating Denial  Issue 25

Women of Walton County Revisited  Issue 25

Stealing Australia  Issue 26

Thinly Veiled Racism  Issue 26

Native Americans Déjà Vu Aborigines  Issue 26

Ironic  Issue 27

A Present Day Irony  Issue 27

Ebony Star Shines Over Wimbledon  Issue 28

Buried But Not Gone  Issue 29

Michael Vick and the 3/5 Compromise Issue 30

Barry Bombs 756! Issue 32

War with Iran:  Déjà vu Afghanistan and Iraq Issue 33

Deception…Issue 34

Race:  A Power Relationship Issue 35

Power or Powerless Issue 35

Bush Refuses to Honor a Black War Hero! Issue 37

The Palestinian Story:  A Case of Slow Genocide Issue 38

Words to the Jena  Movement  Issue 39

More Words for the Jena 6 Movement  Issue 41

Damn the Democrats  Issue 41

Dying is Never Enough Issue 42

Toxic Toys:  A Family Dilemma  Issue 43

Greed Pushes the Bottom Line  Issue 43

What Do We Value:  Tradition or Our Children  Issue 43

More Words for the Jena 6 Movement  Issue 45

The Black Man Film Festival  Issue 45

Keeping the March for Justice Real Issue 47

An Emerging Idea:  Jobs with Justice Issue 48

Keep Grady Public Issue 49

The Gift that Keeps on Stealing Issue 50

The Cost of Misdiagnosis May Be Alzheimer’s Issue 50

Toxic Toys:  Grinch Steals More Than Christmas Issue 50

Peace Outside But War Underneath Issue 51

Volume 9 ……………………..2006

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Super Ballerina or Jackboot Mistress   Issue (903)

The Island   Issue (904)

The Face of the Future   Issue (905)

Full of Democracy or Stuffed Bush   Issue (906)

Sounding the Alarm   Issue (908)

Reflections: The Chisholm Trail   Issue (909)

Cave Man vs Humanity   Issue (912)

Atlanta Vibe…Poetry Month 2006    Issue (915)

A Tale of Two B’s   Issue (916)

Hood Notes…A Memphis Wonder   Issue (918)

Blind-Faith   Issue (918)

Atlanta Vibe…A Time 2 Love    Issue (918)

Mother’s Apple Pie   Issue (919)

Ghost of Nkrumah   Issue (920)

Science Stranger Than Fiction   Issue (927)

Living Above or Below the Half Mark   Issue (928)

Arabia or Arrakis (Dune)   Issue (931)

Atlanta Vibe…Frankie was A-Mazing   Issue (931)

The Value of Life   Issue (933)

Three Fifths Compromised Again   Issue (934)

Retrospective on Heroism   Issue (936)

Heritage of a Totally Lawless Nation   Issue (941)

Hood Notes…Hunger in the Land of Plenty   Issue (946)

Fighting in Nigeria   Issue (946)

Weighing in On Iraq   Issue (947)

Warred Upon While Black   Issue (948)

Sandusky Lost   Issue (950)

Blood for Oil: The Ghost of Christmas Past   Issue (951)

Say It Loud!   Issue (952)

Volume 8 ……………………..2005

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¨ Politics Y2K5…Awash in Red Ink   Issue (801) ¨

No Warning   Issue (801)

¨Hood Notes…Fibroids: Menace or Malign   Issue (802) ¨

Fibroids: A Treatment Epidemic   Issue (802)

The New Negro Movement   Issue (803)

Atlanta Vibe…Retrograde Hip Hop   Issue (803)

Opium War or a Sliced Up Melon   Issue (804)

¨Hood Notes…Academic Freedom or Neocon Agenda   Issue (805) ¨

The Eisenhower Prophecy or Mills' Elite   Issue (805)

Déjà vu Inflation Redistribution   Issue (806)

GAS-ing Up Stress   Issue (807)

Black History Cipher:  World of Tomorrow   Issue (808)

Legacy of Slave Revolts   Issue (809)

Louisiana Slave Revolt (1811)   Issue 809

The Wind of War    Issue (811)

Atlanta Vibe…A Poetry Month Preview   Issue (812)

A Slave's Image   Issue (813)

¨Hood Notes…Missing the Point   Issue (814) ¨

Getting the Point   Issue (814)

Ringing Like A Bell   Issue (817)

Atlanta Vibe…Who Can Stop the Rain?   Issue (818)

A Tale of Two Fugitives   Issue (819)

Post Reality Syndrome   Issue (820)

Managing Debt    Issue (821)

Gunboat Diplomacy   Issue (821)

¨Fanon and the Colonial Mind-Set   Issue (822)¨

Hood Notes…Hotel Rwanda    Issue (822)

¨News You Use…Campaign Against Mercury   Issue (826) ¨

Atlanta Vibe…Our Man "We"   Issue (826)

¨Minstrels, Blackface and Movies   Issue (827) ¨

DISH-ing IT Up Hot!...On Tiy-E    Issue (827)

¨The Road to Ruin   Issue (833) ¨

Politics Y2K5…DeKalb: A Tax Grab   Issue (833)

Three-Fifths Compromise Healthcare   Issue (834)

¨Politics Y2K5…USA: A Racist Society   Issue (836) ¨

Left Behind: A Study in Racism   Issue (836) ¨

Desperate Hours at Charity   Issue (837)

Mardi Gras’ Mask   Issue (838)

Hood Notes…Blackwater KKK Without Sheets   Issue (838)

¨Hood Notes…A Revolutionary Reality   Issue (849)

Return to Reality   Issue (849) ¨

¨Politics Y2K5…To BARDA for You   Issue (850) ¨

The Cold Reality   Issue (850)

It’s Just A Piece of Paper   Issue (851)

Freeman and Black History   Issue (852)

Volume 7 ……………………..2004

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¨Politics Y2K4…Neo-Colonialism/Slavery   Issue 1¨

Atlanta Vibe…While Black   Issue 1

¨New Age Consumers    Issue 2¨

Hood Notes…Classic While Black   Issue 2

¨Honor: The Poor People's Campaign   Issue 3¨

A Better World… Issue    Issue 3

¨Turnout 75 %...On Reluctant Democrats   Issue 4¨

¨2004 Word of the Year: Obfuscate   Issue 5¨

Hood Notes…Classic While Black: NY Update   Issue 5

¨Turnout 75 %...Electability    Issue 6¨

In the Headlights   Issue 6

¨Spam or Free Speech    Issue 7¨

¨Dress for Success   Issue 8¨

¨Turnout 75%...Amending the US Constitution   Issue 9¨

¨Technological Unemployment Manifested   Issue 10¨

The SS Retirement Myth   Issue 11

Job Training   Issue 13

MARTA Tax Sucks.Com…Update on GRTA Takeover    Issue 14

Mob Action      Issue 14

Plausible Deniability    Issue 15

Hip-Hop Transformation   Issue 16

Speaking Against Occupation   Issue 17

Hood Note…Lynching or Suicide?   Issue 18

Torture and Death   Issue 18

Appreciating Hip Hop   Issue 19

T.H.I.N.C on Brown   Issue 20

Muzzling   Issue 21

Lighting Candles   Issue 22

Beating Bush   Issue 23

Boomers, Gen-Xers and Hip-Hoppers   Issue 24

Legacy   Issue 25

Politics Y2K4…Killing Fields   Issue 26

The Oily Truth about Sudan   Issue 26

Marching isn't Worth a Penny   Issue 27

Preemptive War   Issue 28

The UN and Preemptive War   Issue 29

Absence of Dialogue   Issue 30

What is Known?   Issue 31

Ghost of Campaigns Past   Issue 33

The Legacy of Legacy   Issue 34

Antwone Fisher   Issue 35

Election Illusions   Issue 36

Politics Y2K4…Internet v. Corporate Media   Issue 37

Dèjá Vu Empowerment Zones   Issue 37

Year of Increase   Issue   38

Politics Y2K4…The Great Train Robbery   Issue 40

Public Hearings   Issue 40

It Is About Us   Issue 41

Politics Y2K4…Dred is Not Dead   Issue 42

A Dark Reality  Issue 42

What Did We Learn?  Issue 44

The Cooking Oil Dilemma   Issue 45

Women's Health Initiative   Issue 46

Greenhouse Gases the Corps   Issue 47

The Birth of Racism   Issue 48

News You Use…Time for You 2 Wake Up   Issue 49

News You Use…Our New World Order: The Terminal   Issue 52

 

Volume 6 ……………………..2003

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¨ A Year's Look at Serena Issue 1¨

Hip-Hopping Europe Issue 1

¨ T.H.I.N.C. Education Issue 2 ¨

¨ Welfare: A Race Code Issue 3 ¨

Logic and Problem Solving Issue 3

¨ Serena on Top Down Under Issue 4 ¨

T.H.I.N.C.: On Time Issue 4

¨ SPAM-ing the First Amendment Issue 5 ¨

Peeping Poin Issue 5

¨ Defining "X" Issue 7 ¨

 Hip-Hopping a Six Spot Issue 7

¨ A Regional Transportation Tax Issue 8 ¨

¨ Reflection Issue 9 ¨

¨ The People's Artist Issue 10 ¨

Preemption Issue 10

¨ Dictating Democracy Issue 11 ¨

  Chrushing Democracy Issue 11

¨ Pondering Prospects Issue 12 ¨

 Going Against the Seasons Issue 12

¨ A Great Day Issue 13 ¨

Refusing to Learn Issue 13

¨ Cosmic Hope Issue 14 ¨

¨ A Dying Breed Issue 15 ¨

Dé jà vu: Last of A Breed Issue 15

¨ Anthology on Gangsterism Issue 16 ¨

High Tech Gunboat Diplomacy Issue 16

¨ Artistic Racism in Georgia Issue 17 ¨

¨ They Stood Up for Dignity Issue 18 ¨

¨ To the Kidds Issue 19 ¨

A Function of Law Issue 19

¨ Malcolm's Prophecy Issue 20 ¨

¨ Symbolism Issue 21 ¨

Kudos to Annika Issue 21

¨ To Tré: An Opened Mind Issue 22 ¨

¨ Liars! Liars! Issue 23 ¨

¨ Black Eye at Roland-Garros Issue 24 ¨

¨ Craps: A Point of Paradox Issue 25 ¨

¨ Battles Issue 26 ¨

Marley's Legacy  Issue 27

¨Reliving History   Issue 27¨

¨Turnout 75%...The Void   Issue 28¨

¨Reality Check   Issue 29¨

Freedoms Redacted   Issue 30

¨Terrorism at Lockheed   Issue 30¨

¨Of Attrition and Quagmires   Issue 31

¨Politics Y2K3…The Point of Legacy   Issue 32¨

Myths, Metaphors and Reality…Issue 32

¨The Tempest…Issue 33¨

¨Atlanta Vibe…Jarreau under the Stars   Issue 34¨

Hood Notes…A Shameful Betrayal   Issue 34

African Eyes   Issue 34

¨Margaret Danner: The Gift   Issue 35¨

Atlanta Vibe…A Spiritual Breakout   Issue 35

¨Atlanta Vibe…Surviving… Issue 36¨

¨Politics Y2K3…America Coming Together  Issue 37¨

¨Led By Children   Issue 38¨

¨Politics Y2K3…Factoring  Issue 39¨

¨Roots Blues   Issue 40¨

Hood Notes…What Could Not Be Said   Issue 40

¨The Road to Damascus    Issue 41¨

¨Means Never Justify Evil Ends   Issue 42¨

¨The Two Towers   Issue 43¨

¨Bad Hair   Issue 44¨

¨Politics Y2K3…Democracy   Issue 45¨

¨Accepting Reality   Issue 46¨

Politics Y2K3…Unintended Consequences   Issue 46

¨Hood Notes…Response to Email on MARTA   Issue 47¨

Politics Y2K3…Run Out the South   Issue 47

¨Resistance and Proportionality   Issue 48¨

¨Assumption of Equality   Issue 49¨

Politics Y2K3…$2 Steak Special    Issue 49

¨Boycotting Cincinnati     Issue 50¨

¨Learned Helplessness   Issue 51¨

News You Use…American Terrorism: Extra-Legal Executions   Issue 51

¨Turn Out 75%...A Jobless Recovery Issue 52¨

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