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Jon Jeter
From Bernhard Getz to George Zimmerman to Daniel Penny: Using Vigilantes to Police a Racist Social Order
18 Dec 2024
The state and vigilante lynchings of Black men and boys in the U.S. are not merely an aberration or a momentary relapse on the nation’s path to racial equality. They are part of the toolbox of…
Jon Jeter
The White Settlers’ Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People
11 Dec 2024
Jordan Neely's killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic…
Jon Jeter
I Beg Your Pardon! People of Color Say Hunter Biden’s Clemency Represents White Privilege in Overdrive
04 Dec 2024
Joe Biden's pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, is viewed as hypocritical to people of color, yet given their experiences is unsurprising.
Jon Jeter
A Grisly Kansas City Killing Shines a Light on Settler Colonialism’s ‘Boomerang Effect’
27 Nov 2024
The settler colony known as the United States inflicts violence upon Black people as a function of its existence. But the murder of a mother and her infant daughter by Missouri police officers is…
Jon Jeter
Why Kamala Lost: The Democrats’ Anti-Black Electoral Strategy
13 Nov 2024
The Kamala Harris campaign for the 2024 presidential election was a display of the democratic party's willingness to abandon the most loyal segment of their base to remain fully committed to their…
Jon Jeter
John Mearsheimer’s Folly: How Whites Agree to Misinterpret the World to Fulfill Their Racial Contract
23 Oct 2024
Systemic racism and reactionary violence are embedded into the foundation of the US political and social system, despite false claims of any sort of progress. Denying this reality is an act of mere…
Jon Jeter
Not Like Us: Black Men Frown on Harris Campaign Because Democrats Have Done Nothing to Help Them in This Worst Hard Time, Not Because of Misogyny
16 Oct 2024
For decades, the Democratic Party has pushed Black men as the scapegoat for election losses. Every cycle, they put forth a different excuse for why this demographic is unique in its political beliefs…
Jon Jeter
From Axis of Resistance to Political Cuckolds: How Palestinians, African Americans and Black South Africans Were Betrayed by Their Own
09 Oct 2024
One of the many unfortunate common threads between Palestinians, South Africans, and African Americans is the betrayal of the people by their political leadership who were meant to lead them into a…
Jon Jeter
Like Chisolm Before Her, Harris’ White House Bid is More Sizzle than Steak for Black Community
02 Oct 2024
Since Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, liberals have seen her as the next Shirley Chisholm. In this case, they are correct.
Jon Jeter
How the Democrats’ Use Performative Blackness to Gaslight Blacks’ Legitimate Political Grievances
25 Sep 2024
The Democratic Party pulls out all the stops to maintain its base of Black voters - except push any policy that will improve their material conditions. Now that Kamala Harris has stepped into the…