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My Wise Country Cousin On De “Wink-Wink, Nod-Nod Code”

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 21:35 — Raymond Nat Turner

by Raymond Nat Turner

If you see’d him shob
Rev. Wright unda de weelz ob de Greyhoun —
Wink-wink- Nod-nod, it jes look lak dat fo’ to
Fool white folk

Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of 4/29/13

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 13:37 — Glen Ford

Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of 2/2913

The Looming Police State

“There’s a push to scare Americans into a police state,” said Dr. Johnny Williams, professor of sociology at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut, referring to the overwhelming force brought to bear following the Boston Marathon bombing. State repression is designed to contain “a division within society that is expanding.” The only way to resist the police state, said Williams, “is to take it to the streets, to create chaos for them, because they understand nothing else.”

White Terror

“If we did a little racial profiling, in terms of the FBI’s list of groups and individuals that are engaged in domestic terrorism, they’re all white,” said Beau Grosscup, an author of several works on terror. “But, of course, that doesn’t fit the portrait that we have been encouraged to adopt in terms of who is responsible for U.S. terror.”

Operation Ghetto Storm

“Roughly 90 percent” of the extrajudicial killings of Blacks documented in “Operation Ghetto Storm,” an updated report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, “are just straight-up coverups” of routine police practices, said Kali Akuno, one of the authors. The report concludes that a Black person is murdered by police, security guards or vigilantes every 28 hours in the United States. Police are “under no real pressure or threat” to change their practices, “except for what we organize as a community,” said Akuno, speaking on Your World News.

Stop the Torture of Solitary Confinement

Anti-mass incarceration forces must start now to build support for prisoners held in long term solitary confinement in California, who went on hunger strike in 2011, said Carl Dix, of Stop Mass Incarceration. “The authorities promised to change conditions” two years ago, “but they lied,” said Dix. This time, “we want to spread the word” before the inmates’ next tentative strike date, July 8.

Obama’s Behavior Predictable

President Obama is a deeply conservative politician who “has been making noise about rolling back” entitlement programs “pretty much from the beginning of his career,” said Paul Street, author of The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power. “Obama has damn near explicitly stated that, for all intents and purposes, he’s a Republican.”

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The Big Nausea: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 14:03 — Glen Ford

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

Who will defend the indefensible Obama? Answer: There will be fewer and fewer Obamapologists, as each day passes. “For the monumentally dysfunctional Black Misleadership Class, the winding down of the Age of Obama is cause for frantic repositioning, and for the revising of their own histories.”

Freedom Rider: Obama and the Class War

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 00:30 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Back in 2006, Barack Obama sold his soul to Wall Street bankers, who then supported his run for the presidency. “Barack Obama became president because he told the Rubins and Altmans of the world that he was on their side while simultaneously convincing millions of voters that he was on theirs.”

Barack Obama: Wall Street’s Perfect Manchurian Candidate

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 17:45 — Pascal Robert

by Pascal Robert

Barack Obama has been in Wall Street's pocket since at least 2006, when he spoke to the fat cats who would bankroll his campaign and staff his government. The video tells the sorry tale and puts the present in context. “Listen to what he says about the antiquated programs from the 1930′s that people on the left ‘wrongly cling to,’ meaning Social Security.”

My Wise Country Cousin On De Offal Office

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 12:50 — Raymond Nat Turner

by Raymond Nat Turner

Hail to the thief, and the office he thieves out of.

Obama Aims To Cut Social Security & Other Federal Benefits? And This is a Surprise?

Tue, 04/09/2013 - 18:30 — Your Black World

President Obama's proposal to cut Social Security by "chaining" it to the consumer price index will cost seniors a good 10% of monthly benefits a decade from now.  Republicans didn't force him into this, it's his opening proposal for negotiating.  Is anybody even surprised?  

Freedom Rider: What Ails the GOP

Wed, 03/27/2013 - 08:52 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

The Republicans have stripped down their constituency to only “the worst of the worst” Americans: “white supremacists, misogynists and other dead enders.” Obama’s Democrats have absorbed the rest of the GOP, to become the New Republican Party of austerity and war.

The Peculiar Black “Politics of Redemption”

Tue, 03/26/2013 - 14:01 — Pascal Robert

by Pascal Robert

When the oppressed seek to “redeem” themselves in the eyes of their oppressors, the struggle for liberation is lost before it begins. “The Black community must wake up out of the ‘hope and change’ induced stupor in order to mobilize effective oppositional politics.”

The War on White Supremacy

Tue, 03/26/2013 - 12:35 — Solomon Comissiong

by Solomon Comissiong

White supremacy is a killer of plague-like dimensions, “responsible for well over 100 million deaths” of Africans and Native Americans, alone. For centuries, white supremacists have waged war on the non-white world. “In 2008 they selected their newest weapon – Barack Obama.”

Remember: Sequestration was Obama’s Idea

Tue, 02/26/2013 - 21:42 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

President Obama is a full partner with the Republicans in the latest episode of the manufactured disaster saga: sequestration. “The idea was to make every popular constituency in the country scream – and accept the inevitability of massive entitlement cuts.” It’s a goal shared by corporatists in both parties.

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Perhaps Black People Should Stop Expecting Equality

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 14:49 — Dr. Boyce Watkins

 

by Dr. Boyce Watkins

Dr. Watkins, an esteemed author, economist and social commentator, has seen the error of his ways. He has been wrong to argue that President Obama be made accountable to Black people, his most ardent supporters. Instead, Blacks should be accountable to the president. “Only whites, Jews, gays, women, labor groups and illegal immigrants are allowed to expect anything from the president.”

They're Baaack...

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 12:53 — Raymond Nat Turner

 

by Raymond Nat Turner

“In charged the black bourgeoisie's creme de la creme
Maneuvering madly to touch their Messiah's hem.”

Church of the NFL

Mon, 01/28/2013 - 23:46 — Raymond Nat Turner

 

by Raymond Nat Turner

“Illegal forward Pass: $16 trillion plus and spiraling to Wall
Street wideouts from the offal office's drop back pocket-passing
quarterback”

Obama's Race To The Top Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings

Wed, 01/09/2013 - 18:16 — Bruce A. Dixon

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Among Obama supporters, the gap between popular perceptions of the president's policies and the actual content of those policies is nowhere wider than in public education. While the president pays lip service to the centrality of public education, teachers and parent input, his Race To The Top is paving the road to privatization, closing more public schools and firing more teachers than any president in US history.

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