: Flapdoodle trumps truth in any war. The current U.S.-Iraq conflict
: is no exception.

: For some African Americans, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is our
: brown, Third World brother fighting against the forces of racism
: and white supremacy, manifested by President Bush and crew. That
: view belies the truth: for years, perhaps centuries, Arabs in
: the Middle East and Africa have had a white supremacy agenda of
: their own.

: Sunni M. Khalid is an African American journalist and Muslim who’s
: lived in Egypt and traveled extensively in the Middle East. He’s
: commented on the situation there and pulls punches about as
: often as his boxing hero, Joe Frazier, did – which is to say not
: at all.

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Tee,

Q: Why do we AA Blacks identify with the Arabs, Africans, Latinos and other people of color and they don’t identify with us?

A: They watch television too.

BB