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Black ‘Leadership’ Have Stockholm Syndrome: Black guy-” I love everybody ” White guy-” I hate you, I have always hated you” Black guy-“I STILL LOVE YOU!”
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Freedom Rider: The Lie of Academic Freedom Scholars of color have become easy targets for right wing internet trolls and “any whining white person with a gripe.” University campuses claim to be bastions of freedom of speech and inquiry – unless you are of the wrong political persuasion, color or religion. “People who call out white supremacy as practiced in the United States or Israel become targets for harassment because of craven responses from officialdom as much as from racists.” by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Washington: A One Party State The two corporate parties agree on almost everything of substance. “The one-party state doesn’t negotiate police brutality, mass incarceration, or any other manifestation of white supremacy. Nor does it think twice before enforcing sanctions on Syria or Venezuela.” They can’t change Obamacare, simply because it is the perfect corporate bill. “Both parties agree that the profits of the rich must be maximized by any means necessary.” by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US and UK Fund Kagame’s Killing Fields: An Interview with David Himbara Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame will stage sham elections, this week, to keep himself in power for another term. He has already arranged to stay in office until 2034, if he chooses. Those who challenge the vote count often wind up dead, or in prison, like Victoire Ingabire – which is fine with Washington, Kagame’s major backer. “There are no genuine opposition leaders except Diane Rwigara, and she wasn’t allowed to run.” by BAR contributor Ann Garrison
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks About Black Lives Matter and Police Violence A new book of essays by Mumia Abu Jamal sheds light on the historical roots of police violence. “The state will always utilize its ‘law” as a tool of repression, but movements must create and expand the space to raise contradictions.” Huey Newton, says Mumia, “called for deep transformation of police, to bring forth Citizen Peace Forces, designed to solve problems, not bomb them.” Body cameras and better training for cops “is a bourgeois mirage.” by Tasasha Henderson
Justice and Reparations on the Ballot in St. Petersburg, Florida The Uhuru Movement is running a serious race for mayor and a city council seat in St. Petersburg, Florida, on a platform of social justice and reparations to the Black community. The Black south side of St. Petersburg “is getting pushed out via gentrification.” The two rich white establishment candidates shut Uhuru out of the televised debate, choosing instead to compete over which of them “could whiten up and wealthy up the city better.” by Rob Seimetz
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 24, 2017
Black Elites, and Many Black Voters, Supported Mass Black Incarceration: Historian, author and activist Paul Street has high praise for James Forman Jr.’s new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Forman is a professor at Yale Law School and a former public defender in Washington, DC. His book “fills a giant hole in the literature,” illuminating the role played by “Black elites in the rise of the mass incarceration system,” said Street, himself an expert on race and the U.S. penal system. “Many ordinary, working class Black voters in the 70s and 80s have actively supported the racially disparate war on crime and drugs that ended up producing racist mass incarceration,” said Street, whose latest book is titled They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy.
Trump Wants to Be a Caudillo, But He Lacks Allies The Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro said President Trump “would like to set up a Latin American-style strongman kind of government. “But, the problem is, Trump doesn’t have many allies, “anywhere – in the ‘deep state,’ in his own party, or among the American people — to establish such a strongman rule.” If Trump overreaches and attempts to take excessive power in his own hands, said Monteiro, “this will lead to a growing popular demand, which the ‘deep state’ and the Democrats and Republicans will seize upon to move quickly to remove him from office through impeachment.” He said the U.S. is racked by economic and political crises, including a crisis of legitimacy. “We have never seen a crisis of this type.”
Black August, George Jackson and Marcus Garvey August is a politically charged month in the Black world: the month Marcus Garvey was born and when Black Panther George Jackson and his younger brother, Jonathan, were killed. George Jackson and Huey Newton considered themselves to be scientific socialists, but both men were once also students of Garvey and later “adopted their Garveyism to Marxism and their Marxism to Garveyism, analysing their concrete conditions.” by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali
Trump and the Christian Fascists Donald Trump, the authoritarian billionaire liar, has lots in common with the mega-preachers of the far Right, who run despotic fiefdoms and “prey on their followers by extracting ‘seed offerings,’ ‘love gifts,’ tithes and donations and by selling miracle healings along with ‘prayer clothes,’ self-help books, audio and video recordings.” If Trump’s alliance with these zealots succeeds, “it will snuff out the last vestiges of American democracy.” by Chris Hedges
Despite the Efforts of the Opposition, Over 8 Million People Voted for the Constituent Assembly in Venezuela The government of President Nicolás Maduro claims more than 41 percent of registered voters went to the polls to elect candidates for a National Constituent Assembly that will rewrite Venezuela’s Constitution. The right-wing opposition attempted to disrupt the process. “Polls were open until 10pm to allow everyone to vote, because many government supporters had been prevented to vote in their designated centers by the opposition.” by Resumen Latinoamericano
How Haitian Earthquake Relief Efforts Pulled Off a Huge Con Job, with the Help of Mainstream Media In the space of a year, donors contributed $13.1 billion to Haitian earthquake victims – enough money to finance the national budget for 13 years. But the Haitian government got only 1% of it. The world’s richest “aid” outfits and their contractors got most of the rest. “Money that was promised to provide ‘tens of thousands of people with permanent homes’ reportedly only made it to a total of six.” The media were accomplices in the great crime. by Timothy T. Schwartz
Canada Pays and Fails Omar Khadr The Canadian courts have acknowledged the wrong done to Omar Khadr, a 15 year-old child soldier who was tortured and imprisoned as an “enemy combatant” at Guantanamo for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Khadr received a monetary settlement, but he Canadian government has never acknowledged that the U.S. invasion was illegal, and that Afghans had a right to resist it. by Oscar Wailoo
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