The following is an edited version of remarks delivered to the Black Agenda Report panel on “Russiagate: Muzzling the Black Left and the March to War,”at the Left Forum, in New York Ci

“Russia has friendly relations with Israel, and more than a million Russian Jews emigrated to Israel, but Iran is a strategic ally of Russia.”

“The Jackson police department’s actions expose them as a violent thug operation that needs to be disarmed and eventually disbanded.”

“We often reduce Black politics to integrationism vs nationalism, but freedom dreams have always been more robust and complex.”

“It is crucial for us to understand that what we feel as Black peoples provides useful data that can be turned into critical analysis.”