21 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report
Blacks Will Transform America, and Free Themselves, But Not at the Ballot Box in 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
It is paradoxical that African Americans, who politically most resemble the Scandinavian social democrats Bernie Sanders claims to admire, are not supporting Sanders for president. Based on a “calculus of fear,” African Americans “cast their votes in national elections seeking protection from the Greater Evil, rather than voting their line-item policy preferences, or even considering the platforms of parties that challenge the duopoly system.”
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By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Stung by growing public recognition of Teach For America’s heinous role in destabilizing communites and destroying public education, CampaignZero/BlackLivesMatter activist & TFA’s Brittney Packnett took to Huffington Post last week to defend herself and TFA’s mission. But school privatization is so unpopular she had to resort to misdirection and mumbling about her St. Louis orgins and supposed conspiracy theories against her instead.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
If you want to observe a racist lynch mob, go to Israel, the “world’s worst apartheid state.” After being shot by police, an innocent Eritrean immigrant was pursued by an Israeli mob that “kicked him, threw chairs and benches at his head and shouted ‘son of a whore,’ ‘break his head’ and more to the point, ‘Kill him!’” But of course, no one will be punished, and the U.S. Black Misleadership Class will say nothing.
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
If Black people are engaged in a renewed “movement,” what are the demands? The Black Is Back Coalition will bring the demand for Black Community Control of the Police to the White House, on November 7. The Coalition will march and rally under the banner “Black Power Matters,” because only the power of a mobilized people can change a domestic army of occupation into public servants of the Black community.
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Until this decade, Washington, DC was the quintessential “Chocolate City,” where Blackness was normal and white folks acclimated the
mselves to the environment. No more. Jason Goolsby became the latest victim of reckless “eyeballing of a white woman” in the former Chocolate City, because his young Black maleness made a white person nervous. Gentrification plus white privilege equals a lethal threat to Black lives.
by Abayomi Azikiwe
“The militarization of U.S. society is as old as the American system itself,” but the policy kicked into a high gear in the mid to late Sixties, to crush Black urban revolt. In Ferguson, the cops revealed themselves as domestic shock troops for capitalism. “These are the same weapons that have been used against the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and other geo-political regions over the last several decades.”
by Danny Haiphong
Uncle Sam walks in the genocidal shoes of Christopher Columbus, laying waste to the people’s and resources of the world. “US capitalism’s alliance of death is motivating many nations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to form a military and economic partnership with Russia and China.” The sea captain from Genoa is a “founding father” of a capitalist imperial system of unrivaled barbarity and destruction.
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children was “worth it” – meaning, a reasonable price to pay for continued U.S. global dominance. There is no price in “colored” people’s blood and sovereignty that the U.S. Empire is not willing to “pay.” Fortunately, “Russia has done for Syria what the Soviet Union was unable to do for Lumumba’s Congo” – prevent Syria from paying America’s “price.”
by Didas Gasana
There is no doubt that the U.S.-led unipolar global order is facing stiff competition from the East. The BRICS block, especially Russian and China, so far presents to the U.S. the most difficult challenge since the U.S. rise to global supremacy. “Deep down in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Burundi is Africa’s Syria.”
by Thomas C. Mountain
Western capitalists are all the rage about the phenomenal “success” of Ethiopia’s economy. Yet, Africa’s second most populous nation cannot feed its desperately poor people. Foreign money goes largely to prop up “the largest, best equipped army in Africa,” which acts as “the policeman on the beat in Ea
st Africa for the USA.”
by Solomon Comissiong
We collectively cringe when they speak before the cameras: Black athletes and entertainers mouthing words designed to please racist white fans. “Why should any African/black person cheerlead for other African/black entertainers if they lack the moral courage to lend their voices to critical issues of social justice?”
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