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It’s Time to Start Talking About the Brown Mis-Leadership Class
05 Sep 2018
It’s bad enough that brown Democratic Party operatives get credit for progressivism they haven’t earned, but why does the DSA play that game? “Like the Black mis-leadership class, its brown counterpart tries to run its game on legacy.” I know this is going to set off a tank load of liberals— and…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Howard Bryant’s “The Heritage”
05 Sep 2018
The commercializing of the military and police is central to the selling of sports today, and protesting either has turned the athlete into an enemy of the state. “If you’re rich, you can be president. But if you’re black, they want you to ‘shut up and dribble.’”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: David Leonard’s “Playing While White”
05 Sep 2018
White athletes, coaches, media, and fans must become accomplices in the struggle for racial justice. “Sports produces and embodies the wages of whiteness.”
Paul Street
An Age of Racist and Imperialist Impunity
05 Sep 2018
This is an age of murderous, racist, and imperial impunity -- and it isn’t just about the orange beast Donald Trump. Look at the prolonged celebration of the dearly departed mad-dog mass killer and warmongerJohn McCain. For day after day last week, the man was hailed as a messianic clarion of peace…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Review: The Einstein File Exposes the FBI as an Enemy of All the People
05 Sep 2018
The FBI’s secret war against the most famous scientist on earth failed to stop Einstein from supporting social justice at the height of the Red Scare. “The Einstein File reminds us that the FBI has always been an enemy of the people and a tool of the oligarchs that rule the country.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
We Love the CIA!—Or How the Left Lost its Mind
05 Sep 2018
“The Resistance” is steering much of the left into a hard-right turn -- including even Pacifica’s KPFA Radio-Berkeley. “KPFA has a proud history that makes it sad to see ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ take over KPFA’s morning drive time and more.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: John McCain, Trump Derangement, and False Black Consciousness
05 Sep 2018
John McCain personified the worst of United States, and his death ceremony brought out the most worthless elements of Black America. “It is a sad day when black people blather on endlessly about patriotism and killers being honorable.”
Dominica Dunbar Dessalines
HBCU Digest and JL “Booker T” Carter Attacks Howard University Protesters
06 Sep 2018
The highest stage of oppression is when your own people, who speak in the name of pride and empowerment, shoot you down for trying to liberate yourself. It can be very confusing, even totalitarian.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump Protects Al Qaeda, "The Resistance” Applauds, Cursing “Russians”
06 Sep 2018
The “Russians” had to be reinstalled as the “enemy” after Obama made his alliance with Islamist jihad. Trump has now signed on as Protector of the Idlib Caliphate. “The so-called ‘resistance is the world’s phoniest ‘left.’”
Black Communities’ Process in Colombia
Afro-Colombians Credit UN Durban Declaration in Fight for Land Rights
12 Sep 2018
In principle, the government of Colombia recognized Black people’s right to collective ownership of land back in 1993, but these rights have not been fully achieved, in practice. “As a result of Law 70/93, the Afro-Colombian, Raizal and Palenquero Peoples have six million hectares collectively…