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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: Assistant to President Barack Obama and Director of the Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes speaks during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Melody Barnes
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: Director of the HIV/AIDS Bureau of Health Resources and Services Administration Deborah Parham-Hopson (L), and Assistant Director of Health Services Division of Bureau of Prisons Newton Kendig (R), listen to questions during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Deborah Parham-Hopson;Newton Kendig
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Kevin Fenton speaks during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Kevin Fenton
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: Assistant to President Barack Obama and Director of Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes listens during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Melody Barnes
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: (L-R) Deputy Assistant U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary for Minority Health Garth Graham, Director of National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Kevin Fenton, Director of HIV/AIDS Bureau of Health Resources and Services Administration Deborah Parham-Hopson, Assistant Director of Health Services Division of Bureau of Prisons Newton Kendig, and Assistant to President Barack Obama and Director of Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes, participate during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Garth Graham;Kevin Fenton;Deborah Parham-Hopson;Newton Kendig;Melody Barnes
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: Assistant to President Barack Obama and Director of Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes speaks as Deputy Assistant U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary for Minority Health Garth Graham (L), and Assistant Director of Health Services Division of Bureau of Prisons Newton Kendig (R), listen during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Garth Graham;Newton Kendig;Melody Barnes
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: (L-R) Deputy Assistant U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary for Minority Health Garth Graham, Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Kevin Fenton, Director of HIV/AIDS Bureau of Health Resources and Services Administration Deborah Parham-Hopson, and Assistant Director of Health Services Division of Bureau of Prisons Newton Kendig, listen to questions during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Garth Graham;Kevin Fenton;Deborah Parham-Hopson;Newton Kendig
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: Members of the audience listen during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: Shannon Hader, Director of the HIV/AIDS Administration at the DC Department of Health, speaks during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Shannon Hader
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WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: Shannon Hader, Director of the HIV/AIDS Administration at the DC Department of Health, speaks during the White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV/AIDS at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House June 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. The White House Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a meeting to discuss the issue of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American men. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Shannon Hader
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Dr. Boyce Watkins is the founder of the Your Black World Coalition and a Scholarship in Action Resident of the Institute for Black Public Policy. To have Dr. Boyce's commentary delivered to your e-mail, please click here. 
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By: Tiffany on 6/08/2010 9:56AM
I don't feel sorry for gary coleman. Anybody with an ounce of sense know his "ex-wife" is the cause of his demise. The skank is actually trying to sell gary's death photos to the highest bidder. Oh well.
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By: Aquil on 6/10/2010 11:26AM
> I agree with your comment 100%%%%% > He should have never married a CAVE WHORE anyway > Leave them CAVE WHORES to Big Ben & John Edwards > When will the black man learn that GOD made a woman for him > This is not hate just the TRUTH > PEACE B2U
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By: kevin on 6/08/2010 4:44PM
its about to unravel for her azz!dont be surprised if she is arrested in the very near future!now that the will has been executed and she has no official rights to the body the executor iam sure will hire the private investigator to get this looked into more closely and even if shes found not to have murdered him .. he can sue her for the profits she earned off his death!selling his death photos to the tabloids?what a piece of shit she is!shes either crazy or shes evil either way someone may take her out just for how shes coming off!
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By: David1 on 6/11/2010 8:49PM
I don't think she will ever be charged with his murder even though I think she did it. Keep in mind this is a black man we are talking about. Violence against black men is not a priority in our sociality and certainly not for law enforcement or the news media. If the situation were reverse and she was laying half dead on the floor with her head bashed in I guarantee Coleman would have been under investigation and have his ass sitting in jail by now.
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By: David1 on 6/11/2010 8:48PM
I don't think she will ever be charged with his murder even though I think she did it. Keep in mind this is a black man we are talking about. Violence against black men is not a priority in our sociality and certainly not for law enforcement or the news media. If the situation were reverse and she was laying half dead on the floor with her head bashed in I guarantee Coleman would have been under investigation and have his ass sitting in jail by now. The O J Simpson trial should have taught us something about the racist hypocrisy of the media and law enforcement.
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By: Mark on 6/11/2010 9:45PM
We as African people must remember that we need to some how get the shakels off of our minds as well as off of our ankles. I understand that kellogs, the corn flakes people, are putting up a grant of $75,000,000.00 to study the effects of racsim on minorities. Look we need our best and brightest African psychology scholars to examine this and come up with solutions on how to counter act the mental effects of slavery,colonialism and racism. I am not sure of their motives but I applaude the corn flakes people for stepping up and doing what needed to be done. And this needed to be done for a long time. I'm just hoping that more people and entities follow suit. what does this have to do with Gary Coleman you might ask?......Think about it.
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By: charlotte on 6/18/2010 1:40AM
NOT A DAMN THING!
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By: Baci302 on 6/12/2010 12:48AM
She murdered him. I hope the police treated it as a crime scene and took photographs of everything. Let the forensic MDs do their thing and when the dust settles, she'll be behind bars.
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By: Kent Paul Dolan on 6/13/2010 2:25AM
Your bigotry comes forward once again, Dr. Watkins. Gary Coleman and Shannon Price were _divorced_. His will, from before their marriage, left nothing to her. To be able to "pull the plug" on him, his doctors first had to find that he had no brain function, then to determine whether she had the authorization to make a decision on the matter, and only then to _inquire_ of her wishes.
Your detestation of all things Caucasian seems to extend to mixed marriages. Perhaps you could find some way to change your incessant campaign of divisive agitation between the races to something helpful toward amity between the races, say, for example, in this lifetime?
As things stand, you are a person of negative worth even to the Black community, who with the current levels of young Black men in prison have absolutely no need of being further inflamed, or of being filled with a false notion of entitlement without gainful effort, to do things that get them incarcerated at such disproportionate rates.
xanthian.
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By: arkangel on 6/13/2010 7:09PM
Right Kent, white people are never the blame for anything, just ask the Native Americans.
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