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Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 28, 2020
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
29 Dec 2020
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Margaret Kimberley Ā· Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 28, 2020

South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops

ā€œSouth African police kill between two and three times as many people as US police do, per capita,ā€ said Paul Clarke, a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who has done extensive research on labor, policing and privatization in South Africa. However, ā€œit’s difficult to tellā€ if the Black majority regime kills more of its citizens than its apartheid predecessor, ā€œbecause so many killings by police were covered upā€ during white rule, said Clarke. South Africa is also the biggest incarcerator on the continent.

Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US

ā€œThe US health system has failed utterly and completely to protect the peopleā€ in this country, said veteran activist Sara Flounders, co-editor with Lee Siu Hin of the new, 50-writer anthology ā€œCapitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of Covid-19 in China and the US.ā€ The US accounts for a quarter of the world’s infections and a third of deaths, a catastrophe due to ā€œthe cost of health care for profit, of no national health care, and no national coordination,ā€ said Flounders, who notes that the US ā€œdoes not lack infrastructure in police, in the military, and in prisons.ā€

Corporate Baseball’s ā€œFeebleā€ Gesture to Negro Leagues

Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only ā€œthe beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldn’t even come close to restoringā€ the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. ā€œBaseball was not just a pastime for Black people,ā€ said Myers. ā€œIt was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came togetherā€ during American apartheid.

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