Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire
  • omnibus

Letters from Our Readers
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
16 Dec 2020
Letters from Our Readers
Letters from Our Readers

This week the incoming administration was on your minds. We share your letters for “Freedom Rider: Black Demands for the Biden Administration” and “Biden and Trump Not That Different on the Issues.”

In “Freedom Rider: Black Demands for the Biden Administration” Margaret Kimberley argues that while black misleaders are giving the public impression of making demands on the incoming Biden administration, they are only promoting themselves.

Reg Callaway writes:

“The CARES Act which passed in March provided $10B in funds for Native tribes across the U.S.  It called for housing, educations, food, etc. support.  Naturally, of course, Team Trump held up a lot of the appropriations through litigation and red tape which prevented it from getting to where it was needed most.  Countless people died because of his callousness.  

“The next round of financial support also calls for direct financial support to Native Nations.  Since Native Nations were able to lobby for direct aid It begs to question:  Where is direct relief for African Americans? Where is the CBC (Congressional Black Caucus)?

“African Americans and Native Americans are the most impoverished groups and have been equally dealt a heavy blow by Covid-19. Both groups have lower health status than the rest of the population. They have higher rates of diseases such as obesity, diabetes, etc. The result of these poor health outcomes has raised the infection risk of contracting the virus.

“Native and Black Americans are also exposed to substandard infrastructure which inhibits them from fighting disease and the virus. However, when resources were allocated Black Americans were left out.  While Native Nations are able to get appropriated resources for the pandemic, Black Americans do not have direct legislative support. This is no accident. The CBC misleaders are there to ensure millions of us are erased from discussions on obtaining direct federal resources so that our suffering is the most extreme.”

Kennis Henry writes:

“Thank you for your article. However, I hope you will be willing to do a part II and speak to the over 35 year struggle to get HR 40 passed and reparations for our people! Reparations is not on their agenda and they do everything possible to be counterproductive to the plight of the people, the same people they pay lip service to and swear that when they meet they are lobbying the interests of the people! Were this true, why would it would take 35 years and counting to pass simple Study Bill Legislation? Were this true the NAACP would have included Reparations on their agenda and actually at the top. This includes those sell outs who claim to be the CBC, the conscience of Congress!”

In the radio segment “Biden and Trump Not That Different on the Issues” Dr. Margaret Flowers, director of Popular Resistance, argues that the incoming administration will not be very distinct from the outgoing one in terms of policy and priorities.

Wallace Nixon writes:

“Since the Clintons founded the Democratic Leadership Council about 30 years ago and abandoned the New Deal priorities they basically stand for nothing but seeking public offices for power. They are really nothing but cross-dressing Republicans playing trick or treat. Their new strategy was designed to win back the white workers who left the party and voted for Reagan. They have no intention of being different. Most foreign observers have seen no difference in the American political parties for many years.

“P.S. If Susan Rice as domestic policy advisor does for blacks in the United States what she did for them in Africa we might see the repeal of the 13th,14th and 15th amendments.”

Under the guise of liberal diversity politics, the new administration has the potential to be the most reactionary in history. The struggle against the incoming administration must be on all fronts. 

Jahan Choudhry is Comments Editor for Black Agenda Report.  He is an organizer with the Saturday Free School based in Philadelphia, PA.

COMMENTS?

Please join the conversation on Black Agenda Report's Facebook page at http://facebook.com/blackagendareport

Or, you can comment by emailing us at [email protected]

Comments

Do you need and appreciate Black Agenda Report articles. Please click on the DONATE icon, and help us out, if you can.

Trending

Elizabeth Warren Wants Green Bombs, not a Green New Deal
Parallels Between Black and Palestinian Struggles
Cory Booker Hates Public Schools
Bill Cosby Should Have Been Denounced by Black America Long Ago
The Black Wall Around Barack Obama: Who Does It Protect Him Against?
How Complacency, Complicity of Black Misleadership Class Led to Supreme Court Evisceration of the Voting Rights Act

Related Stories

Letters from Our Readers
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 March 2021
This week the blackout in Texas, the recent film on Fred Hampton, and Democracy Now’s international coverage were on your minds.
Letters from Our Readers
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 February 2021
This week you discussed the struggle against the dollar and neocolonialism.
Letters from Our Readers
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
17 February 2021
This week color-blindness on the left and the Black Misleadership Class were on your minds.
Letters from Our Readers
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
10 February 2021
This week you discussed the multilayer crisis facing American people.
Letters from Our Readers
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 February 2021
The federal government’s stimulus payments and the role of black police officers were on your minds.
Letters from Our Readers
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 January 2021
This week our readers talked about the weakness of the U.S. left, the storming of the Capitol, and the crisis of U.S. imperialism.
Letters from Our Readers
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 January 2021
This week the uprising in Washington and Du Bois’s writings on the Soviet Union were on your mind.
Letters from Our Readers
Jason Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
13 January 2021
“The Squad Won’t Fight Pelosi and Corporate Power
Letters from Our Readers
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
06 January 2021
This week the Black Misleadership Class, sexual violence and colonialism, and the crisis of US imperialism were on your minds.
Letters from Our Readers
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
10 December 2020
This week the role of US elites in controlling resistance by Ugandans and Black Americans were on your minds.

More Stories


  • About the Ray Wood 'Confession' 
    Zayid Muhammad
    About the Ray Wood 'Confession' 
    03 Mar 2021
    The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee speaks on Ray Wood’s deathbed 'non-confession' to crimes committed before and during the great leader’s assassination.
  • The Biden Administration Spent Black History Month Deporting Black Immigrants: Why Aren’t People in the Streets? 
    Tina Vásquez
    The Biden Administration Spent Black History Month Deporting Black Immigrants: Why Aren’t People in the Streets? 
    03 Mar 2021
    Black immigrants are among the most vulnerable and we always have a target on our back and it has been no different under Biden.
  • Freedom Rider: The Minimal Minimum Wage
    Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: The Minimal Minimum Wage
    03 Mar 2021
    Most Democrats either don’t want a minimum wage increase or are too afraid of bucking their party’s donor class.
  • Joe Biden: The Expect Nothing Presidency
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
    Joe Biden: The Expect Nothing Presidency
    03 Mar 2021
    Biden’s brand of American exceptionalism has run up against the general crisis of the U.S. imperialist order.
  • MANIFESTO: “The Crime of Being Born Black on American Soil”: Claudia Jones’s Statement Before Being Sentenced, February 2, 1953
    Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    MANIFESTO: “The Crime of Being Born Black on American Soil”: Claudia Jones’s Statement Before Being Sentenced, February 2, 1953
    03 Mar 2021
    Claudia Jones’s arrests and eventual deportation were part of the expansion of the US government’s Cold War attacks on immigrants—Black immigrants included—who were affiliated with the Communist Pa
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us