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Jon Jeter
Chocolate City: Ground Zero for the White Settler's Reclamation Project
12 Oct 2022
Washington DC was once known as Chocolate City. After years of gentrification Black residents are now a minority of the population.
Jon Jeter
Big Ideas to Stir the Blood: Reimagining Reparations as America's Marshall Plan and Not Just a Payday
14 Sep 2022
International law requires that reparations be made for human rights violations. African Americans certainly fall into the category of those entitled to just compensation, restitution, and…
Jon Jeter
'You Can't Swim the Same River Twice': Why Full Employment Was a Great Idea, But is No More
31 Aug 2022
Had it been fully implemented the Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill would have been a boon to U.S. workers. Any talk of reviving it is now moot, as the industrial economy of the 1970s has been…
Jon Jeter
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Harvard: Why the Crew, and not the Captain, Will Save America
10 Aug 2022
The elites who control international finance are the best educated people in the world. They are also the most dangerous and have inflicted the most harm.
Jon Jeter
The White Socialist Left: Seeing a Bleak Future for ‘Black and White Unite and Fight’
06 Jul 2022
White leftists have a history of using class reductionism to ignore racism and even of making common cause with white supremacy itself.
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,…
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.
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.