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Malcolm X Tic-Tac-Toe in the Age of…Austerity?

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 12:13 — Raymond Nat Turner

by Raymond Nat Turner

Tic-Tac-Toe, X versus O

Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of 4/15/13

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 21:33 — Glen Ford

More Whites Swept Into U.S. Gulag

The racial incarceration gap has narrowed, slightly, with more whites and going to prison in recent years. “It’s almost like law enforcement is looking for more feeders for their beds,” said Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of The Correctional Association of New York. “As the economy continues to decline, poverty is closely associated with who law enforcement goes after,” she said. “So, you find more whites being swept up in the system.”

New Book Exposes Manning Marable’s Lies About Malcolm X

“The central lie” of Manning Marable’s book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, “is the idea that Malcolm X was not an African Internationalist, not committed to revolution, but that when push came to shove, he was really part of the American dream and the American structure,” said Dr. Todd Burroughs, a professor of communications at Morgan State University. Burroughs and Dr. Jared Ball are co-editors of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X, a collection of essays by prominent Black intellectuals and activists. “It was a shame that we had to do the book,” said Burroughs. “For him to mess it up this badly is a travesty.”

U.S. Will Bring About World War Three

The U.S. and its allies are running amuk, much like the Axis powers in the 1930s, said Dr. Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, at Champaign. “After 9/11, we’ve had the United States, Britain, France and NATO literally rampaging around the world, destroying and invading states,” said Dr. Boyle. “They are going to lead us into a Third World War over something.” Boyle’s newest book is titled Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution.

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Dr. Ben Carson: Send in the Clowns

Tue, 03/26/2013 - 15:30 — Auset Marian Lewis

by Auset Marian Lewis

The world-famous Black brain surgeon from Baltimore is nothing but a “Samuel L. Jackson-Django turncoat,” says the author. If the great Ida B. Wells encountered Ben Carson, “she probably would shoot him with her Winchester.”

The Expansion of Black American Misery under Barack Obama’s Watch

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 19:50 — Dr. Reginald Clark

by Dr. Reginald Clark

Black folks are not only far worse off “since 2009 under President Obama’s economic and job creation policies” – Africans Americans are the only group that “has taken a definitive step backwards since then.” The main reason: “lack of attention to employment in urban and rural geographic areas where Blacks reside.”

Ella Baker and the Limits of Charismatic Masculinity

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 17:38 — Pascal Robert

by Pascal Robert

Ella Baker, the consummate organizer, “was very critical of the hot shot Black preachers who would seem to mesmerize their audience with soaring oratory, then leave and expect others to implement an agenda.” She put forward a grassroots critique of overwhelmingly male Black leadership, and showed “more wisdom, courage, and vision then almost all of them.”

The Historical Failure of Black Leadership

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 14:49 — Pascal Robert

by Pascal Robert

There’s something wrong with the process by which Black leadership is selected. “Black people are trapped in a viscous cycle of looking at their favorite leaders and revering them like baseball cards.” What’s needed is democracy in struggle. “People must be trained with the organizational and political capital to advocate and fight for policy and economic models that best serve their needs.”

Better Break Away from the Judas Quisling Class

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:57 — Raymond Nat Turner

 

by Raymond Nat Turner

“While we're hurting, they're living large and hearty

On corporate dollars from their Democratic Party.”

Dear Black America: It's Past Time to Wake Up

Tue, 12/18/2012 - 02:01 — Solomon Comissiong

 

by Solomon Comissiong

Black people in the U.S. “are locked in struggle with white supremacy, institutional racism and oppression.” At the same time, however, they embrace the brown face of the ultimate front man for Power: Barack Obama. This is a formula for community incoherence and defeat.

1776, The Slaveholders’ Revolution: A Review of "Negro Comrades of the Crown"

Tue, 11/27/2012 - 14:51 — Dr. T. P. Wilkinson

 

by Dr. T. P. Wilkinson

Blacks posed a military threat to the slaveholder’s plans for an independent America. “Horne’s history of African-Americans fighting on the side of Great Britain against the United States and its racist regime shows that the continued hostility of the United States government at all levels toward African-Americans is not the product of mere cumulative prejudice against people of color.”

What Would the Ancestors Say?

Tue, 11/13/2012 - 14:53 — Raymond Nat Turner

 

by Raymond Nat Turner

Baptist, baritone strains:

"I've been to the mountaintop,

But this is not the mountaintop”

Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of November 12, 2012

Mon, 11/12/2012 - 23:33 — Glen Ford

 

Racial Solidarity in Misery

Who won on November 6? “If maintaining a degree of racial solidarity is a victory, then both sides – those that were solidified by their whiteness, and those that were solidified by their Blackness – I guess you can say that they both won that,” said Columbia, South Carolina, activist and author Kevin Alexander Gray. “Every economic and social indicator since Barack Obama got elected is in the negative.” Gray is author of Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics.

Wealth Wins Big

The issue of “poverty was almost completely missing in the campaign,” said author and political analyst Paul Street. “Wealthy people own this political system: they own the economy, they own the society, the own the government, they own the politicians.” Street is author of The Emperor’s New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power.

Blacks to Become More Invisible

Reflexive African American loyalty to President Obama reminds Dr. Anthony Monteiro of Malcolm X’s critique of Black affection for President John F. Kennedy: “We put him first, and he put us last.” The same goes for Obama, said Monteiro, professor of African American Studies at Temple University, in Philadelphia. “And us being last will be even worse in his second term, because he does not need the Black vote again. Black people will become more invisible.”

Capitalists Running Scared

President Obama’s preventive detention law and his plans to introduce “a new legal architecture” on national security in his next term, show that U.S. rulers live in fear of the people, said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. “When the state has to show its hand in such a heavy-fisted way, it is clear that they are anticipating a severe crisis for which they do not have a response,” said Yeshitela.

Seattle Likes Socialists

Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative candidate for the Washington State House of Representatives, won 27 percent of the vote on November 6. It is no longer taboo to campaign openly as a socialist, said Sawant, a professor of economics at Seattle Central Community College. “Times are changing, it’s not the Cold War propaganda era, anymore.” She attributes the party’s success to “the massive crisis of capitalism and the anger that people are feeling” at the financial oligarchy.

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Obama, the Elections and the Struggle for Justice, Peace, a Better Life and Black Power

Tue, 08/28/2012 - 21:18 — Omali Yeshitela

 

by Omali Yeshitela

The U.S. electoral system, like American society at-large, is dominated by wealthy capitalists. What use, then, is electoral politics to African Americans? The Black Is Back Coalition explored that question at its national conference, in Newark, New Jersey. “We must create the options, destroying the proverbial claptrap from some ‘leftists’ and ‘revolutionaries’ that ask, ‘If not Obama and the Democrats, then what?’”

You Can Vote, But You Can't Work

Tue, 05/01/2012 - 23:33 — Vijay Prashad

 

by Vijay Prashad

People’s yearnings and destiny make them strive for human rights, while an encrusted and decaying neoliberal capitalism provides neither civil rights nor the material necessities of civilized existence. The old order is done, although not yet gone. “Neo-liberalism is the naked Emperor. The governing ideology of the ruling class is bankrupt.”

God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Foundation Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino “Genocide”

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 13:42 — Sikivu Hutchinson

 

by Sikivu Hutchinson

Money and religion make strange bedfellows. The most right-wing forces in U.S. politics have cultivated Black and Latino allies to label abortion rights advocates as nothing less than enemies of God. Yet, “It is precisely because of right wing opposition to universal health care coverage that Black, Latina, Asian, and Native American women are more likely to rely on the wraparound health care services that Planned Parenthood provides.”

Shooting the Messenger and Rediscovering the Power in Faith and Activism

Wed, 12/14/2011 - 00:40 — Marsha Coleman-...

 

by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, PhD

The messengers of truth are silenced in ever increasing numbers, with more journalists imprisoned this year, worldwide, than at any time since 1996 – a majority detained by their own governments. “If history provides a guide, the brutality of the oppression against the Occupy movement will only incite more rebellion perhaps laying the seeds for a second American revolution.” As Malcolm X predicted, “There will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation."

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