The idiotic controversy that is the focus of the nation’s media and which claims Nevada Sen. Harry Reid uttered racist comments is mind boggling in its obtuseness. Democrats and honest Republicans, white and Black, cannot seem to gather the moral energy and mental clarity to call the Republicans who are promoting this issue by their true name: demagogues.
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Black Alliance for Just Immigration,
Black Studies,
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
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Flava Fav,
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International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
Jean Damu,
Jesse Jackson,
John Heilmann,
light skinned,
Mark Halperin,
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA),
Negro dialect,
Nevada Sen. Harry Reid,
racism,
Republican demagoguery,
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele,
Sen. Strom Thurmond,
Snoop Dogg,
Southern strategy,
Trent Lott
After I interviewed program director and XM Black radio talk show host Rob Redding about the need for more Black talk radio, his show was canceled on Green 960 AM. It’s 2010, and Black people are still not “permitted” to speak our minds in the court of public opinion. Give a piece of your mind to Green 960 AM (KKGN) Program Director John Scott by calling him at (415) 975-5555.
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Barack Obama,
Black talk show,
Black Talkers,
Congressional Black Caucus,
gay marriage,
Green 960 AM (KKGN) Program Director John Scott,
KKGN,
Minister of Information JR,
progressive talk,
Rob Redding,
Roland Martin,
Rush Limbaugh,
Sean Hannity,
unemployment,
XM 169 The Power
The Haitian government-under-U.S.-U.N.-occupation has again excluded Haiti’s largest political party from participating in upcoming elections financed, orchestrated and supported by the United States and the international community. This time, it’s the February and March 2010 legislative elections.
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Barack Obama,
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Fanmi Lavalas,
former slave-owning nations,
Gaillot Dorsinvil,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haitian dignity,
Haitian Lawyers' Leadership Network,
Haitian President René Préval,
Haitian Provisional Electoral Council,
Haiti’s first democratically elected president,
health care,
human rights violations,
indefinite detention without charge,
infrastructure,
job opportunities,
Lavalas movement,
Lovinsky Pierre Antoine,
Marguerite Laurent,
Maryse Narcisse,
Organization of American States (OAS),
Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies,
President Aristide,
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
Provisional Electoral Council,
Radio Solidarité,
roads,
Special U.N. Envoy Bill Clinton,
starvation,
U.N. rapes,
U.N.-U.S.-run prisons,
U.S.-sponsored coup d’etats,
U.S.-U.N. occupation,
United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
wrongful imprisonment,
“good investment environment”
In this conversation between two young Black men who are passionate about the potential role of radio in the Black community, Minister of Information JR begins: “Rob Redding is one of few Black program directors at a mainstream talk radio station: KMLB in Monroe, Louisiana. He is also syndicated on XM Radio and on Green 960 AM in the Bay Area.”
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Black president,
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Black public affairs show,
Black talk radio hosts,
Blacktalkers.com,
Civil Rights Movement,
corporate suits,
Jena 6,
Jena Louisiana,
KMLB in Monroe Louisiana,
mainstream radio,
Minister of Information JR,
neo-colonialism,
one drop rule,
Plessey v. Ferguson,
racism,
Reddingnewsreview.com,
Rennie Bishop,
Rob Redding,
Rush Limbaugh,
Sean Hannity
Dec. 9 will mark the 28th year that former Black Panther and present day political prisoner and prolific journalist Mumia Abu Jamal has been locked up for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer, although the evidence points to his innocence. After nearly three decades, many of Mumia’s supporters around the planet believe that he is closer than ever to being assassinated by lethal injection on Pennsylvania’s death row. We are asking everyone who reads this piece to get involved in freeing this man.
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Aaron Patterson,
Amadou Diallo,
Barack Obama,
change of venue,
Henry Louis Gates,
Hugo Pinell,
Imam Jamil Al-Amin,
Johannes Mehserle,
Jose Pagan,
Minister of Information JR,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
negro-phobic,
Obama administration,
Oscar Grant,
Pennsylvania’s death row,
racist,
Rodney King,
Ruchell Magee,
Simi Valley,
Skip Gates,
Spisak case,
suicides,
Van Jones,
William Tilley
The 2009 U.S. Conference on AIDS opened in San Francisco at the Hilton Hotel on Oct. 29. The three-day event drew leadership from around the country, highlighting the “changing tide” of leadership in the forefront of the battle against HIV. The lobby of the downtown Hilton was a sea of energy and vibrant color as African American, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander and women policymakers mingled in excited conversation.
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
AIDS epidemic,
Barack Obama,
Frank J. Oldham Jr.,
HIV,
Lisa Capaldini M.D.,
Minority AIDS Initiative,
National Association of People with AIDS,
national testing campaign,
Phill Wilson,
Sister to Sister,
The Black AIDS Institute,
U.S. Conference on AIDS
The Afghanistan war is due for a recycling, but it may not go the way the U.S. has planned. Begun under dubious circumstances, more as a demonstration war to set the stage for the real drama of Iraq, Afghanistan has almost always been more useful as a proxy war fought by others, rather than a direct war fought by Americans.
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Barack Obama,
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Iraq,
Joaquin Belaguer,
Lyndon B. Johnson,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Rep. Gerald Ford,
Republicans,
Sen. Everett Dirkson,
The Afghanistan war,
the Dominican Republic revolt,
the former Soviet Union,
the U.S.,
Vietnam
Maafa 2009 was chillier than usual, but our hearts were certainly no less warmed by the ancestors’ tight embrace as supplicants made their way through the Middle Passage to the Wolosodon rhythms, the slave march through the Doors of No Return to the beach where each person held a piece of string – symbolic of a connection … a philosophical connection to the homeland, family and history.
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Akosua,
Akram Khan,
Albert Mathias,
Alex Ketley,
Alonzo King,
Amiri Baraka,
Ani Di Franc,
Anthony,
Anthony Smith,
Axis Dance Company,
Barack Obama,
Beat Generation,
Black Arts Movement,
Black Repertory Group Theatre,
Brian Copeland,
Carla Service,
Carolina Chocolate Drops,
Cheo Tyehimba,
civil rights era,
Conversations with Black Authors,
Cultural Heritage Choir,
Danjuma,
David Dorfman,
David Murray,
Del the Funky Homosapien,
devorah major,
DJ Spooky,
Doors of No Return,
Dr. Raye Richardson,
Dwan Smith,
El Hamideen,
Faly Seydi,
Fannie Lou Hamer,
Faustin Linyekula,
Fernando Botero,
Fred Hampton,
Gnawa,
Gregory Maqoma,
Grupo Falso Baiano,
Ice Cube,
Immortal Technique,
India Arie,
Irene Cara,
J. California Cooper,
Jason Moran,
Jeffrey Haas,
Jerome Bongiorno,
Jetaun Maxwell,
Joan Jeanrenaud,
John Burris,
John Grider,
John Handy,
Justin Desmangles,
Kamala Harris,
Karla Brundage,
Keb’Mo’,
Khalil Shaheed,
Kikongo tradition,
Linda Tillery,
LINES Ballet,
Lonette McKee,
M.B. Hanif,
Maafa 2009,
Mai,
Mali Kingdom,
Malonga Casquelorde Center for the Arts,
Marc Bamuthi Joseph,
Marc Cary,
Marcus Book Stores,
Mark G.,
Marvin X,
Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno,
Mbongi,
Michael Jackson,
Michael Wall,
middle passage,
Nona Brown,
Oaktown Jazz Workshop,
Opal Palmer Adisa,
Pooja Aresh,
Queen Latifah,
Randy Weston,
Remy Charlip,
Richard Mayhew,
Saul Williams,
Sean Vaughn Scott,
Sharon McGriff-Payne,
Snoop Dogg,
Solomon Burke,
Sonia Sanchez,
Sonya Delwaide,
Taiwo Kujichagulia Seitu,
Tarika Lewis,
the Ghetto Prophet,
Traci Bartlow,
Tropicália,
Val Serrant,
Vince Tolliver,
Vincent Mantsoe,
Voting Rights Movement,
Wanda Sabir,
Wanda’s Picks Radio,
Wolosodon rhythms,
Womyn of Color Arts and Craft Show,
“Dark River”
Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. “No, I don’t think so,” I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he’s now conducting the two wars he’s inherited. “Yeah,” she said, “but to tell him, ‘Now earn it!’? Give the guy a break – this is a great day for him and for all of us.”
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racial genocide,
racist slavery,
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segregation,
the Bush-Cheney years,
the Christian Right,
the Grant Park Historic Hippie Battlefield,
the Great Depression,
the White House,
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The CIA report predicts “an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947-1948 and 1967 refugees. The latter being the precondition for sustainable peace in the region.”
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the Gaza Strip,
the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
the Soviet Union,
the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
Uganda
The recent violent and furious protests by armed sign carriers at town hall meetings, called to discuss health care reforms, recall not the democratic discussions New England used to be famous for so much as distant white protests against civil rights reforms. Cartoons disparaging the president and his family bring to mind an earlier time when Blacks were routinely ridiculed in the nation’s press.
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Father Coughlin,
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Green Beret,
Idaho,
Lou Dobbs,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
Organized labor,
Randy Weaver,
Republican Party strategists,
Republican strategist Ed Rollins,
Richmond,
Ruby Ridge,
Rush Limbaughs,
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Sean Hannitys,
the capitol of the Confederacy,
the Civil War,
the Howard Jarvis-Paul Gann-like tax reform initiatives,
the Randy Weaver recruitment plan,
the Secret Service,
the “Father of hate radio”,
town hall meetings,
violent and furious protests,
white protests,
“Southern strategy”
The SF Bay View newspaper is in dire financial straits, and former presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney is bailing us out with her stimulus plan that comes by way of the Triumph Tour through Northern California that is being organized as a series of fundraisers for a very essential media outlet that amplifies the people’s voices in times of need and in times of triumph.
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Healthcare,
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Oakland,
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Rafa crossing,
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self-determination,
spying against U.S. citizens,
the alternative media,
the Bay Area,
the Egyptians,
the healthcare debate,
the Middle East,
the San Francisco Bay View newspaper,
the special interest media,
the Viva Palestina UK Convoy,
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U.S. policy,
Viva Palestina USA Convoy,
white phosphorous
Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates is arguably the most prominent Black intellectual in the U.S. On July 14, cops in Cambridge, Massachusetts, forced him to do a perp walk from his own home to a police car in handcuffs. The charge was disorderly conduct, but Gates’ real offense was being Black and unwilling to bow and scrape when ordered to do so by a white cop.
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October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality,
the Cambridge Police Department,
The Stolen Lives Project
Cynthia McKinney, the outspoken former congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate, recently got out of jail.
Yeah. That’s right. Jail.
It’s possible that you had no idea she was in jail.
That’s because she was in detention for almost a week in Israel.
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Ashdod Port,
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Cynthia McKinney,
Cyprus,
David Milliband,
Eritrea,
Ghana,
Gordon Brown,
Ivory Coast,
Larnaca,
Martin Luther King,
medical supplies,
Michael Jackson,
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire,
olive trees,
Palestinians,
Ramle,
Ramle High Security Prison,
Tel Aviv,
The Israeli government,
the Israeli judiciary system,
the vessel Spirit of Humanity,
U.S. military aid,
West London,
www.prisonradio.org,
Zodiac Special Forces
“You could hear a pin drop” when prisoner Marritte Funches’ letter was read at the April 14 hearing of the Nevada Board of Prison Commissioners. These are four of the shocking public comments submitted to the Prison Board on April 14.
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abuse of authority,
Alex Haley,
Annabelle Parker,
Assistant Warden of Programs Jim Henson,
Barack Obama,
blood in his urine,
chronic disuria,
civil rights lawsuit,
Civil Rights Movement,
constitutionally mandated health care,
created hostile environments,
cruel and unusual punishment,
Director of Prisons Howard Skolnik,
Dr. Bannister,
Ely State Prison,
enlarged prostate,
gang materials,
High Desert State Prison,
Howard Zinn,
Magistrate Judge McQuaid,
Marritte Funches,
MRSA,
NDOC,
Nevada Board of Prison Commissioners,
Nevada Department of Corrections,
Nevada State Prison,
Northern Nevada Correctional Center,
Office of the Inspector General,
pain medication,
Patrick Cavanaugh,
potential kidney failure,
psychotropic Elavil,
R. Egberto,
religious rights,
retaliation and abuse,
severe kidney pain,
snitching,
Spina Equinus,
staff misconduct,
Stewart Conservatory,
supermax prison,
the flesh eating disease,
unnecessary litigation,
Warden Dwight Neven,
Warden E.K. McDaniel,
Warden Greg Smith,
withdrawal of visitation privileges,
withholding prescribed medication
Cobalt is essential to our military industries’ ability to manufacture the modern weapons of war. So, the Congo War, a.k.a. the African holocaust, is a war for the sake of war itself.
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Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP),
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Katanga Copper Belt,
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),
Patrice Lumumba,
President Patrice Emery Lumumba,
Robert Gates,
Rwanda,
Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF),
U.N. peacekeepers (MONUC),
Uganda,
Ugandan army (UPDF)
Naturally we are outraged by Rupert Murdoch’s low rag The New York Post’s depicting Barack Obama as a monkey. That cartoon is actually calling for the assassination of the president of the United States!
What does Obama’s otherwise spectacular achievement say about the issues of police brutality, welfare to work, Reparations or Affirmative Action? What about the New Year’s Day police shooting of an unarmed Black man, Oscar Grant?
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Barack Obama,
bi-cultural,
biracial,
colorblind,
first Black president,
Hurricane Katrina,
Louis Farrakhan,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
mixed race,
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin,
post-racial,
Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
Rickey Vincent
Lord, help us work for that day when Black will not be asked to get in back, when Brown can stick around, when Yellow will be mellow, when the Red man can get ahead, man; and when White will embrace what is right.
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