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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…