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Jon Jeter

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  • 911 Is a Joke: Preferring to Shoot Unarmed Blacks, Cops Find It Ain't No Fun When the Rabbit Has the Gun
    Jon Jeter
    911 Is a Joke: Preferring to Shoot Unarmed Blacks, Cops Find It Ain't No Fun When the Rabbit Has the Gun
    01 Jun 2022
    Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) began after an LAPD raid on the Black Panthers in 1969 and spread throughout the country. Then as now they neither protect nor serve, as was the case in Uvalde,…
  • Book Review: The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
    Jon Jeter
    Book Review: The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
    27 Oct 2021
    The idea that a reverse migration to the south is a route to greater political power should be treated with skepticism.
  • Silent for 20 Years, an NBA Player Erupts in a Cogent Critique of Anti-Black Media
    Jon Jeter
    Silent for 20 Years, an Ex-NBA Player Erupts in a Cogent Critique of Anti-Black Media
    26 May 2021
    The corporate sports media practices a kind of settler state “Orientalism,” blaming black players for the ills of an industry owned by rich white men.
  • An Open Letter to Chris Hedges: Racism, Not 'Cancel Culture' is the Problem
    Jon Jeter
    An Open Letter to Chris Hedges: Racism, Not 'Cancel Culture' is the Problem
    03 Mar 2021
    The author, a former corporate journalist like Hedges, reminds him that white workers betrayed Black workers and class solldarity, not the other way around.
  • A Political Comeback for the Ages: Biden's Improbable Nomination
    Jon Jeter
    A Political Comeback for the Ages: Biden's Improbable Nomination
    26 Aug 2020
    The same corporate media that shamelessly boosted Biden’s candidacy, even when his popularity plummeted, never question his sudden comeback at the polls.
  • Michael Jordan's Sad Legacy as the Plutocrats' Champ, and the Anti-Ali
    Jon Jeter
    Michael Jordan's Sad Legacy as the Plutocrats' Champ, and the Anti-Ali
    29 Apr 2020
    Ali, the People’s Champ, hurtled into the breach to come to the aid of his community while Jordan did all he could to distance himself.
  • Adrift in a Decolonizing World, the White Settler Makes a Final, Furious Stand
    Jon Jeter
    Adrift in a Decolonizing World, the White Settler Makes a Final, Furious Stand
    15 May 2019
    From Ramallah to Rio, Capetown to Caracas, Green Bay to Gaza, the sun is setting on the colonial racial order.
  • Racist Roseanne Was Way Off: Valerie Jarrett Hailed from Planet of the Rich
    Jon Jeter
    Racist Roseanne Was Way Off: Valerie Jarrett Hailed from Planet of the Rich
    06 Jun 2018
    “Throughout her public life, Jarrett served the Empire and not the people, African-Americans least of all.”
  • Jon Jeter
    ESPN’S Journal of Black Respectability Politics
    07 Sep 2016
    by Jon Jeter Michael Eric Dyson is up to his corporate tricks, this time in ESPN’s black-oriented web site The Undefeated. Dyson personifies the surrender of the Black middle class, in total synch…
  • Jon Jeter
    Worse Than Apartheid: Black in Obama’s America
    30 Oct 2013
    by Jon Jeter The U.S. Black-white wealth gap is larger than in South Africa at the height of apartheid. The statistic is all the more remarkable when considering that South Africa virtually mandated…
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