25 March 2016 — — Black Agenda Report
The Democratic Road to Black Ruin
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Democratic Party operatives claim that Blacks are voting “strategically” when they support the corporate warmonger Hillary Clinton for president. The reality is, Blacks believe only Clinton has the money and organization to beat the White Man’s Party – the GOP. But, only two outcomes are possible from such a “strategy”: “either the triumph of the White Man’s Party, or electoral victory for Black people’s worst enemies among the Democrats.”
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Freedom Rider: Democrats and the SCOTUS Scam
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyThe Obama “legacy” will likely include the appointment of a U.S. Supreme Court justice that Republicans would welcome – if only Obama hadn’t been the appointer. Federal judge Merrick Garland is a former prosecutor whose politics suits Obama’s core conservative instincts. The president is leaving office just like he came in, pulling a “bait and switch” on his Democratic base and blaming the Republicans for making him do it.
Raul Castro Should Ask Obama: What About U.S. Political Prisoners?
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen FordThe man who presides over the largest prison population in the world, a system that is still holding political dissidents captured a half century ago, has the nerve to demand – or have his flunkies in the corporate press demand – that Cuba account for who it puts in jail, and why. It would never even occur to the White House press corps to inquire on the status of U.S. political prisoners.
Good News, Bad News as Post-Obama Fight For Public Education Goes Local
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonThere’s a video of a little black girl weeping when told that Barack Obama will soon leave office. If she and her parents knew what the First Black President had done to public education, she wouldn’t be crying. The Obama administration closed and privatized thousands of public schools, fired over a hundred thousand qualified teachers, and handed over tens of billions in public property and funds to charter operators and testing companies.
EPA Officials Didn’t ‘Want to go Out on a Limb’ for the People of Flint
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-AdebayoThe federal and state actors that poisoned Flint, Michigan’s water tried to pin the crime on each other at a congressional hearing, last week. Governor Rick Synder, who set the crime in motion, failed in his attempt to concoct an ignorance-of-the-facts alibi. And the federal EPA chief could not escape the fact that she neglected to use her “authority to protect the citizens of Flint from situations of ‘imminent and substantial endangerment.’”
Black Study, Black Struggle
by Robin D.G. KellyRobin D.G. Kelley opened a debate published by the Boston Review. “The fully racialized social and epistemological architecture upon which the modern university is built cannot be radically transformed by ‘simply’ adding darker faces, safer spaces, better training, and a curriculum that acknowledges historical and contemporary oppressions.” But campuses can become resources “for anti-racist struggles ‘dedicated to the principle of thinking in order to act.’”
Letter from Brazil: Before There Was Liberation Theology There Was Candomblé
by Julian Cola“Liberation theology,” a progressive interpretation of Christianity that gained traction in the mid-20th century, was long preceded by African-based religions such as Brazil’s Candomblé. “The emergence of African-based, syncretic religions caused an abrupt split from the religious and social status quo championed by the dominant class.” Candomblé’s sister-beliefs moved oppressed people towards resistance elsewhere in the Americas, including the U.S.
Why a United Front Against Trump is Dangerous Territory for the Left
by Danny HaiphongThe Democrats would love to see the entire political spectrum united with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump – but that would mean Trump has “scared the left back under the Democratic Party umbrella.” The Donald defames Mexicans, but Barack Obama has actually deported more of them than any president in history. Trump threatens to keep Muslims out of the country, but Obama kills them by the thousands. “Trump is indeed evil, but Obama and the Democratic Party remain the far more effective evil.”
Confessions of a Neo-Caucasian
by Mark P. FancherHuman rights attorney and frequent BAR contributor Mark Fancher recently had a close encounter of the white supremacist kind. He learned that Donald Trump plans to use his awesome powers to turn a select number of Black people white – which would, of course, be HUGE!
What if Most Trump Supporters Were People of Color or Muslims?
by Solomon ComissiongEuropean global expansion has been marked by white crimes against humanity for half a millennium. In the U.S. white settler state, non-whites and Muslims are profiled as potential criminals and terrorists. However, “if a white person carries out an act of domestic terrorism there is never a frenzied vilification of all white people within a certain age demographic or social marker.”
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