Jaribu Hill is Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. She joins us to discuss a Mississippi political scandal involving a former governor who gave millions of dollars in funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to political cronies and even to a multi-millionaire former football star. In addition, the city of Jackson has been without clean water for more than a week. She joins us from Greenville to talk about Mississippi politics and how these two scandals came about.
Britain is, indeed, the “mother country” of US white supremacy, having bythe 13th century become “The First Racial State in the West.”
Nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression and exclusion are an integral part of the neoliberal order.
The 1971 raid marks a nationwide militarization of police relations with Black protest groups and Africa Americans as a group.
“If DA Krasner wants to embrace anti-racist principles…then he needs to take an honest look at the facts of Mumia’s case.”
The film framed Hampton as a victim instead of a pro-active freedom fighter and revolutionary.
