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Cynthia McKinneyMcKinney and Me
by Saab Lofton

"In 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Commission noted its concern that while African Americans constitute just 12% of the population, they represent 50% of homeless people ... Myriad reports and studies that have been done all come up with the same basic conclusion: In order to resolve deep and persisting racial disparities in this country, a public policy initiative is urgently needed."
--Cynthia McKinney, A Discussion of Race Worth Having, March 18th, 2008

Care as Much About the Real World
by Saab Lofton

I hate ARFs -- Anal-Retentive Fanboys, usually spoiled whites in the suburbs who're spending far too much time in front of a computer (I'm a professional author, what's their excuse?), they go off on everything from Ben Affleck's portrayal of Daredevil (which was just fine, by the way) to the casting of Halle Berry as Catwoman (even though Eartha Kitt, another woman of color, also played the character).

Seattle Suicide Watch
by Saab Lofton

"I'm distributed by studios that are owned by large corporate entities. Now, why would they put me out there when I am opposed to everything that they stand for ... it's because they don't believe in anything. They put me on there because they know that there's millions of people that want to see my film or watch the TV show, and so they're gonna make money. And I've been able to get my stuff out there because I'm driving my truck through this incredible flaw in capitalism, the greed flaw. The thing that says that the rich man will sell you the rope to hang himself with if he thinks he make a buck off it."
--Michael Moore, The Corporation (2003)

Dan SavageA Tale of Two Savages
by Saab Lofton

"The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
--Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)

"No romance without finance ... your silky words are sweet, but your pockets sure look empty."
--from the song Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent by Gwen Guthrie

Affirmative Action in Fiction
by Saab Lofton

"White fear is profitable. Bond issues for prison construction managed by major investment banks are more profitable than school construction bonds for improving the decrepit, crowded public schools like Taft High School in the Bronx. The prison construction bonds also depend heavily on a steady flow of young, brown bodies of former students of de-funded schools, as do the crowded barracks in Iraq's deserts."
--Roberto Lovato of the Pacific News Service, May 18th, 2004

"Over the past 20 years California has built 23 new prisons and only one new university."
--Workers World, May 22nd, 2003

Support Your Protesters!
by Saab Lofton

"Although publicly I continued to ignore the raging anti-war controversy … I knew, however, that after all the protests and the Moratorium [the nationwide protests of October 1969] American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war."
--The Nixon Memoirs

So Near Yet So Far
by Saab Lofton

Skip: Man, I can't believe this. They was gonna burn all this shit. All this shit, and a nigger can't even find a job.

Kirby: Well, that's Uncle Sam for you, baby. Money to burn.

--from the movie, Dead Presidents

It's a pain that never ends -- to be capable of so much but allowed to do so little ...

Who Needs Martial Law?
by Saab Lofton

"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."
--George Orwell

Declaring martial law in America would be redundant because there's already more than enough in place to curb dissent. For instance, whenever I explain how we the people need to tax the rich and cut the military budget so that revenue can be freed up for job creation (a Greenpeace version of FDR's New Deal is long overdue), I hear the following imbecilic excuses ...

Civilizing Savages
by Saab Lofton

To be left-wing means to side with the poor/oppressed -- whether you yourself are poor and/or oppressed or not. Case in point, Marlon Brando was a rich white man but he bailed the Black Panthers out of jail many a time back in the day.

To be right-wing means to side with the rich/powerful -- whether you yourself are rich and/or powerful or not. Case in point, the Ku Klux Klan -- most of whom are poor trailer park trash and yet they masochistically support capitalism even though a WHITE coal miner dies every six hours from BLACK lung disease.

What Dead Presidents Can Do
by Saab Lofton

"The idea that we're just gonna keep incarcerating, keep incarcerating, pretty soon we're not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They're all going to be in prison, or dead. One of the two."
--John Edwards, 2008 Democratic presidential candidate