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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Douglas Flowe’s “Uncontrollable Blackness”
10 Jun 2020
Black men are besieged by an American crucible uniquely designed for them in the early twentieth century. “’Crime’ is often defined by those in power to protect their positions, and is primarily produced by structures of inequality.”
Mark P. Fancher
Global Africa Must Defeat Global Imperialist Policing
10 Jun 2020
Africans have flooded into the streets of Britain, Germany, Brazil, France and many other countries, not only in solidarity, but also as part of their own resistance. “Police officers and sheriffs are very much a part of a broader, global military enterprise.” It can’t be said that the thousands…
Ethan Johnson
Incandescent Whiteness: Dispatch from Portland, Oregon
10 Jun 2020
We are murdered, but there is no recourse because there is no crime. No death occurred because we are not human. “Oregon started out being the only state in the nation with a Black exclusion law in its founding constitution.”
K. Scott
Ooh La La: Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha and Civil Rights Myths in the Black “Mecca”
10 Jun 2020
Mayor Lance Bottoms brought in troops to occupy her city while claiming that protesters dishonored the memory of MLK. “The political graffiti on Atlanta's walls read ‘F--- Killer Mike,’ ‘F--- TI’ and ‘F--- KKKeisha.’"
Jones Manoel
Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution
10 Jun 2020
It is impossible to speak seriously about Marxism in the West without incorporating the role of Christianity in each social formation. “Western Marxism has taken a historic distance from the concrete experiences of socialist transition in the Soviet Union, China, Viet Nam, and Cuba.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth R. Baer’s “The Genocidal Gaze”
10 Jun 2020
In Southwest Africa the Germans devised the methodology which they would re-use in the Holocaust thirty years later. “When the Germans killed 80,000 Africans with impunity and without reprisal, the German population back in Europe became inured to the idea of genocide.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
A Tale of Two Protests: Why the U.S. Ruling Class Loves Hong Kong Protests But Hates the Minneapolis-Led Rebellion
10 Jun 2020
The protests in Hong Kong are led by an assortment of US-backed proxies who have separation from China as their principle goal. “In Hong Kong, the US sees not a war for ‘democracy’ but rather a key battleground for its larger hybrid war against China.”
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Africa’s Response to the George Floyd Murder
10 Jun 2020
Outrage towards the US emanated from the Congo, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, all condemning the killing. “Africa’s relation to the Floyd murder was swift and resolute.”
Earl Hazell
White Images, Black Reality: How to Talk to the Accidental Apologists for Monsters
10 Jun 2020
The author offers some thoughts on how to deal with white people that seek to dominate Black political discussion on social media. “Black people equal or superior to you intellectually can defensively analyze these impulses contextually, without a white person monitoring, judging, or censoring…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
11 Jun 2020
Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration. “The objective is to seize and exercise people’s power in our communities, and to defend the people’s rights and…