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		<title>Accepting democracy in theory, while nullifying it in practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; “Democracy is predicated upon the principle of majority rule. In applying this principle to our political life, we find that our politico-economic masters have done an excellent job by accepting Democracy in theory, while they nullify it in practice. Through numerous subterfuges, such as race, poll tax, the domination of the two political parties [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=3728&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding my father&#8217;s columns has got me thinking a lot about my parents&#8217; marriage. To be honest, I always thought my mother had been robbed. She was an independent woman, had a career as a social worker. She&#8217;d worked her way through junior college, then through Morgan State &#8211; the first in her nuclear family [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=1598&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would hang Mr. Ray, a &#8216;muddled reactionary&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This second letter is the one my father refers to in his column on Sept. 15, 1934. The same arguments on capital punishment are still being argued today. As for me, I would have to agree with Mr. Streator, though not on the hanging part . My dad wrote the original column on Sept. 1, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=1031&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging Mr. Ray &#8216;with his own suspenders&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found the letter to the editor published  Sept. 8. 1934, from George Streator that this column refers to. I still agree with Streator. Sorry, Dad! This debate on capital punishment started with a column Ebenezer published Sept. 1, 1934. Filed under: 1934, Capital punishment, Dottings of a Paragrapher, Letters Tagged: 1934, african american history, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=946&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ebenezer writes to Mr. Ray</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A column to himself . . .  and another letter of praise Filed under: 1934, As We See It, Columns, Letters, The Scottsboro Boys Tagged: 1934, african american history, black history, Chic Robinson, ebenezer ray, elaine ray, genealogy, harlem, journalism, new york, the new york age<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=781&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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