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Chip Gibbons
Barr's New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters
15 Jul 2020
The attorney general’s theory rests on the premise that there is a set path by which one radicalizes into becoming violent. “By embracing preventive policing, the task force aims to eliminate the threat of dissent.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law’s “Prison By Any Other Name”
15 Jul 2020
Increased police technology, increased training and “community policing” tend to actually expand instead of decreasing policing. “The entire system of policing, surveillance and imprisonment is violent and grounded in white supremacy, and abolishing it is the only viable end goal.”
Jade Bentil
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
15 Jul 2020
The books in focus explore the ways an anti-black world tries to interdict the possibilities of Black life, and how Black people resist and overcome such assaults. “I don’t know of any Black scholar that would be able to do the work we’re endeavouring to do now without the brilliance of Toni…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 Jul 2020
This week you had the Democratic Party, Libertarianism, and Native American relations with African Americans on your minds.
Paul Street
Shelter in Race-Class Place
15 Jul 2020
Black Americans are told to shelter in savagely unequal places where the necessities of life are scarce and Covid-19 is most lethal. “Americans need to understand race beyond just the color of faces in high places and symbols in public spaces.”
Tunde Osazua
AFRICOM and the Guise of Terrorism
15 Jul 2020
If AFRICOM’s mission is to fight terrorism, then why have terror attacks increased five-fold since the US began its military occupation of the continent? “Entities that threaten a liberated, autonomous Africa are the real terrorists, and the United States is the biggest terrorist in the world.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Hooey-hooey—Boss Tweet gotta GO!
15 Jul 2020
Hooey-hooey—he gotta go— Hooey-hooey—he gotta go! He mocks and jokes about the plague And earned a date at The Hague He lies and brags ‘bout the tests Thousands die, he beats his breast! Hooey-hooey—he gotta go— Hooey-hooey—he gotta go! A parasite, con and leech A racist…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Great American Firewall: On the Question of Censorship
15 Jul 2020
It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology. “Censorship in the United States is rampant but the Great American Firewall is rarely discussed.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Propaganda Won’t Get Rid of Trump
15 Jul 2020
The biggest threat to Biden’s chances is the continuing suppression of black votes and the refusal of the Democrats to do anything about it.. “The Democrats’ effort to sell the lackluster and problematic Joe Biden involves telling some outright lies.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change – So Give Them No Choice
16 Jul 2020
An existential political crisis for the racial capitalist order will only happen when the left puts forward a viable political alternative. “There is no political crisis for the ruling order, unless ending their rule is on the agenda of significant social forces.”