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An oldie-but-goodie from self-proclaimed skeptic and agnostic James A. Haught, who’s written several books on atrocities and injustices wreaked in the name of religion. The subject of taboos wouldn’t be complete without this quintessential jeremiad originally published in the Winter 1996/97 issue of Free Inquiry (a journal of secular humanist opinion and commentary founded in 1980 by Paul Kurtz).
Nation of Islam (NOI) Minister Louis Farrakhan has long labeled himself as a strong (patriarchal, hyper-masculine) Black man – presumably the type of man necessary for authentic Black leadership. For this reason, many in the Black community are reluctant to criticize even his most egregious words and actions. Such an attitude by the Black community only encourages more demagoguery. It is time for African Americans to raise their standards for Black leadership.
What do Leon Trotsky, Emma Goldman, Ralph Nader, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Hugo Chavez, Adolf Hitler, Harry Truman, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have in common? They’re all socialists or at least have been “accused” of being socialists, along with Karl Marx, Henri de Sainte-Simon, Vladimir Lenin, Eugene V. Debs, Vachel Lindsay, Nicholas Maduro, and many, many others. In the US the label has frequently been a handy political insult, an often taboo but (paradoxically) close to meaningless label to apply to one’s opponent. Admittedly it’s rare if not unheard of to call a right-wing leader in the US a “socialist” even if s/he seems to have way too much in common with National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler, but it would make as much sense to do that as to call FDR a socialist, and his enemies lambasted him as one frequently.
As of early March 2019, three American Democratic presidential candidates advocated reparations for descendants of American slaves. On July 20, 2017, The New York Amsterdam published “Europe replies to demand for reparations,” referring to a 2013 lawsuit filed by fourteen Caribbean nations against the United Kingdom, France, and The Netherlands. Thus, the request for compensation for ancestors’ free labor is now transnational.
