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Love my Black Job—
Black Student Union Job!
Hired at L.A. City College
As “The Peoples Poet!”
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.
Shangri-La—untaxed, socially-distanced champagne-
caviar, Cayman Island, yacht crowds who
Could the pigment of your imagination
cause Black magic mascots, props, sops—
Black faces in high places—
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx
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"What would Glen Ford say?" That question is one which we often ask ourselves two years after his passing.
For the past 30 years, no matter which party has been in power, the US economy has produced more and more “bad” jobs – because the Race to the Bottom is ruling class policy.
It is true now just as when Glen Ford wrote these words in 2019. In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples.…
The U.S. has used its influence to steal another country’s oil revenues. Venezuela is in the crosshairs because it dares to be socialist in the hemisphere the U.S. claims as it’s “backyard.”
The late Glen Ford would probably refer to events in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and elsewhere as the “blowback” from France’s colonial past.
