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I'd go as far as to call this judicial overreach on the part of the cracker's (illegitimate) 'legal' system as "liberal authoritarianism". They're now claiming, as their sycophants, water-bearers, and zealots have always done, that to protest Amerika's actions, that to detest the bloodshed Amerika aids, abets, provides comfort, and materiel for, that to stand against the genocidal _butchers_ in Israel, in Ukraine, in every sovereign nation that AFRICOM has spidered its settler-colonial appendages through, is to be an "aGeNt Of FoReIgN pOwErS". This conviction is a vindication of the most intellectually lazy and dishonest, most xenophobic white liberal response to pushback, the "buh, buh, ruzzian bot" response that has come to mark them no different from the crackers in the RNC. Can't you just see the way that marquee looks over this action? In glowing, 288pt bold-italics Impact: # _**"If you don't back our settler-neocolonial ambitions, we will make you into a carceral slave".**_ So much for free speech, yanquis. Death to your past, death to your future; death to your Global Settlement.
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The Democratic Party has been trying to appeal to Black communities in the US by referencing hip-hop songs, doing interviews on Black media platforms, and, according to some reports, even changing their accent when speaking to Black people. In recent years, Republicans have also been trying to appeal to Black voters by claiming immigrants steal jobs, with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump going as far as calling the low-paid positions allegedly under threat as ‘Black jobs.’ Despite these political parties’ attempts to garner votes, a narrative remains that voting rates are low in working-class Black communities because Black people are ignorant, uneducated or too lazy to cast a ballot. A Washington Post-Ipsos survey reported that 62 per cent of Black people planned to vote in November’s presidential election, down from 74 per cent in June 2020. What might account for the drop? However, Dedan Wa Waciuri of North Carolina-based community organisation Mapinduzi (@mapinduzi_252 on IG and @weareuziiii on X) argued that neither Republicans nor Democrats work in Black people’s interests. He pointed out that voting activists are the truly lazy ones for limiting their political engagement in our communities to once every four years. What might be the solution? Perhaps, we can studying the Black Power Movement in the US and the worldwide Pan-African struggle. Then, consider organising for Black liberation and Pan-Africanism, like Mapinduzi. In the comments, let us know what you think of Waciuri’s message. Video credit: @bigklfa600 (TikTok) @dedanwaciuri (IG) @waciuri_dedan (X) -------------------SOCIAL---------------------- FACEBOOK - facebook.com/africanstreammedia INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/african_stream TIKTOK - tiktok.com/@africanstream TWITTER - twitter.com/african_stream
30+ years, and the only thing that's changed is this line: > _"The people of my country aren't so bad"_. ...They are now. I think my first foray back into poetry will be a response/interpolation of this piece.
> _For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause. Some of these individuals are Democratic Party operatives attempting to maintain Black voter loyalty as Israeli war crimes in Gaza remain a campaign issue. Others are of a right wing tendency which either supports U.S. imperialism or asserts that Black politics can and should stand alone, and that any talk of solidarity with Palestinians or other peoples is misguided._ > > _It's not surprising that these questions have come to the fore as the Democratic National Convention is taking place in Chicago, while so-called ceasefire talks take place in Israel, even though Israel continues to reject any talk of a real ceasefire and Kamala Harris promises to keep sending them weapons. Black Agenda Report editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka provides his analysis in conversation with Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley._ Do not be fooled, family. There's hella motherfuckers out here who want to see our solidarity split; and _some of them look and act like us._ This is why they want us to assimilate so badly; so we stop expressing solidarity with the enemies of the Settlement. Or not even the enemies of the Settlement; even the innocents in the way of what the Settlement's allies _want!_ They want you cosigning the genocide just as breathlessly as Harris, Booker, or Jeffries would; and they will dissemble, cudgel, and cajole until either you do, or until you make it clear that they'll have to chalk you out too to kill your solidarity.
> _While Joe Biden spoke during the opening night at the convention a group of delegates who want to end the Israeli genocide managed to sneak in a banner which read, “Stop Arming Israel .” One delegate felt compelled to hit one of the protesters on the head with a sign. Others moved to cover up the banner and then began shouting, “We love Joe!” Nadia Ahmad is the Florida delegate who was struck on the head. “They’re up there talking about fascism and like hitting me on the head with ‘I love Joe’ signs. That’s not a good look,” she said in what is perhaps the biggest understatement of the convention._ Let me just say how much it fuckin _sickens me_ that the community has gone from "Not Like Us" to falling in around Kamala like she's not the same Cop City-repping, 1033-funding, genocide-collaborating ghoul that Genocide Joe is, just with a misleader's coat of paint.
28 articles, summing up to about _seven years_ worth of critique on the Swine Queen of Cali. This shit ain't new, she's been giving us reasons to despise her even BEFORE she was in spitting distance of figureheadery.
I don't think, not since I became aware of his analyses, that comrade Baraka has _ever once_ been off the mark with his reading-for-filth of the Black Misleadership Class. It's _his_ eye we need to be evaluating the settlers and their minstrels with-- not the likes of Grandmaster Jay, of Tariq Nasheed, or of Umar Johnson. > _As Harris said recently , “I am eager to run on the record of what Joe and I have accomplished together.” That means a continuation of the same – wars abroad and austerity domestically._ Just in case anyone thought Harris was going to suddenly pivot _for real_ against the genocide. That woman was bought-and-paid-for by white supremacy LONG before she had executive aspirations-- she was a pig before! It breaks my heart seeing would-be comrades thinking that just because of a few pretty words in spite of her condemnations of _literally-attacked_ protestors, that she is suddenly going to take the concerns of the Dearborn bloc, or the protestors who recently went to DC seriously. We need to be real about this woman. We need to not be white-liberal-naive about this woman. Meet the new boss, same as the bad cop.
Because news from the Sahel _has_ to be on _our_ radar.
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1976670 > Check it out. Also: > > ---- > > >“George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.” These were the words of famed rapper Kanye West during the 2005 nationally televised telethon benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina. In this notorious quote, Kanye expressed a popular conception of the Bush administration for a whole generation of people. How is it then, that less than 15 years later the same Kanye West — **son of a Black Panther who had previously made commentary on racism in the U.S.** — would go on a national tour professing his love for Hitler? Even more recently, beloved star in the Black community, Nicki Minaj, cozied up to Ben Shapiro after rapper Megan Thee Stallion blasted her for misogynoir. Both of these instances illustrate the right’s newfound investment in popular culture in response to young people, people of color and the LGBTQ community’s increasing acceptance of socialism. > > ---- > > Kanye was the son of a Black Panther?! Holy shit... > > Anyway: > > It's only a few paragraphs long and is for a pre-convention discussion (since CPUSA is in discussion period for our democratic process).
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>Activists concerned not just with Mumia’s health, but also with the prison conditions impacting thousands of aging incarcerated people, issued a Call to Action beginning Feb. 15. > >Calls on behalf of Mumia should be made to the following prison officials, weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET: Superintendent at SCI Mahanoy Bernadette Mason, 570-773-2158; and Secretary of Corrections at PA DOC, Dr. Laurel R. Harry, 717-728-4109; and Deputy Secretary Central Region, Robert Gimble 717-728-4122, ext. 4123. > >A suggested sample script is: “Mumia Abu-Jamal (aka Wesley Cook) #AM 8335, had double bypass heart surgery in 2021 and has had other serious health issues, including COVID 19 and hepatitis C. We are therefore demanding that Mumia be provided with regular daily exercise, clean water, a cardiac-healthy diet and preventive care and screening.” > >The Call to Action concludes with this statement by the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics: “There are legal, ethical, social and public health reasons why prisoners, as wards of the state, must be supplied with health care. The legal reasons for providing health care to prisoners were stipulated in the 1976 Supreme Court Estelle v. Gamble decision, in which the Court held that deprivation of health care constituted cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.”
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>We are still seeking to defend our peoples from the relentless assaults of capitalism, Zionism and [neo]imperialism and their police and military forces. We have not yet been able to realize our dreams and transform the prisons into museums of liberation. Revolutionaries across the world struggle and dream for this future, in every movement of oppressed people. Indeed, when we speak of the prisoners movement, we are in essence speaking of Resistance.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3632023 > Token minority liberals be like
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>The legacies of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X have been co-opted. While representing opposite sides of the political and ideological barricades, they both supported reparations for people of African descent. Both were expanding their worldview by linking economic and political issues, while exposing capitalism as a system. They were equally targets of the FBI’s repressive COINTELPRO arm, leading to both being assassinated. > >Before Malcolm X began developing an anti-imperialist perspective, he advocated the right to self-defense to win national liberation, which was the basis for his “By Any Means Necessary” message. The Black Panthers credit Malcolm X for their view on the right to armed self-defense in relationship to police repression. The Panthers exposed the inability of the capitalist government to meet the needs of the Black community and established free breakfast programs, free health care clinics, free liberation schools and much more. > >Many of Malcolm X’s radical perspectives have stood the test of time. For instance, back in 1964, he criticized [the] Zionist [neocolony], saying: “The Palestinian struggle is not just a cry for justice; it’s a blistering battle for the most fundamental human rights that every living soul on this planet should inherit by birthright. > >“It’s an unyielding resistance against the oppressive, suffocating grip of occupation and the callous denial of the most basic human dignity. Just as the Civil Rights Movement in the United States fought against the chains of racial discrimination, so too do the Palestinian people strive to shatter the chains of occupation and tyranny. > >“Never forget, my friends, that the Palestinians, much like African Americans in the United States, have been subjected to a heart-wrenching history of suffering and torment. [Neocolonization] in 1948 brought forth the mass expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their ancestral homes and land. This is a historic injustice that continues to haunt the lives of Palestinians to this very day. > >“The situation in Palestine serves as a brutal reminder of the consequences of colonialism and the ruthless dispossession of indigenous people. It is a reminder that the fight for justice knows no borders, and we must stand united in solidarity with all oppressed peoples, whether they reside in the United States, South Africa or anywhere around the world.” (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=G0DNHnQfhHg)
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>A great deal has been written about Eli Whitney as the inventor of the cotton gin and as a great scientist, which he certainly was. However, according to some accounts, the first gin made in Mississippi was constructed on the basis of a crude drawing by a skilled slave. This was probably not very unusual in light of the fact that even among the first slaves brought to this country from Africa, many were skilled craftsmen. Also in both the South and the North there were skilled free Blacks. > >Since the slaves were never recognized in law as persons, the slave owners could appropriate their property as well as any inventions they might conceive of. [Click here for part two.](https://www.workers.org/?p=76810)
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>The South Africa complaint that put [a neocolony’s extermination] on trial worldwide helped to deepen this class consciousness, but it won’t stop there, because now South Africa, with the backing of almost 80 governments, has announced plans to take the U.S. and Britain to the world court for their war crimes of being complicit with this [extermination] of the Palestinian people. The governments of Indonesia, Chile and Mexico are filing their own complaints against [the extermination]. > >Even if these legal complaints are politically symbolic, they are important barometers that reflect the millions of outraged masses over the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and will further isolate [Zionism] and its main backers — Western [neo]imperialism, led by the U.S. And not only must those of us inside the belly of the beast defend the resistance inside of Palestine, but beyond Palestine. > >We all know that Yemen has shown solidarity with Palestine, not only in words, but in action — with literally millions in the streets. And their Naval Forces have prevented numerous [neocolonial] cargo ships from enjoying safe passage through the Red Sea until direly needed humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza. And since then, Yemen has faced ruthless bombing from both the U.S. and its junior partner Britain against its civilian population as punishment for its principled stance.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1646784 > Apparently, Charlie Kirk wants to start a campaign against the Civil Rights Act and MLK? > > I think this is why we need to guard against the ultra-right. > > There's the right-wing and then there's the ultra-right. > > This is a new low, however, and it portents bad changes in the body politic of the United States. > > It seems they even want to do away with these concessions as well, that was fought for by the working-class.
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I just love it when my OGs turn around and commit to paper things that I've been saying. > _But if there is another point which is made obvious by this definition and that is that the United States has and is committing genocide domestically and internationally. Of course Black people played the biggest role in making this case beginning in 1951 when the Civil Rights Congress published the pamphlet, “We Charge Genocide ,” and documented the case against the U.S. government. The charges are still valid as Black people have been the group primarily victimized by mass incarceration and all the other impacts of racial capitalism, from denial of housing rights to decent medical care._ > > _If Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, the United States did the same and assisted others in Libya and Syria and Somalia and Yemen and Haiti. This long list of criminality is one of the reasons that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other officials call South Africa’s charge against Israel “meritless.” If they acknowledge Israel’s genocide it would not only expose U.S. culpability but they would have to acknowledge their own misdeeds as well._
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> _The use of Black and brown puppets to distort the racial optics of exploitation was a standard part of colonial administration, and it has remained as a central element of neo-colonialism. It is not at all surprising then that imperialists would use the same strategy in the U.S. where some have characterized the country’s African population as an internal colony of sorts. Amilcar Cabral disagreed with the idea that the predicament of Black people in America is a colonial one, but he also said: “That is not to say that the aims are not the same. And that is not to say that even some of the means cannot be the same.”_ If you don't recognize the man in the header image of this article, this is Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, the "first Black movie star in Hollywood". In the near-constant role of 'Stepin Fetchit'. A literal Vaudeville _minstrel,_ billed as "the laziest man in the world" across more than _40 fuckin films._ Stepin Fetchit is the very face of the Black Misleadership Class. Shucking, jiving, and tapdancing sellouts to the White empire. Genocide minstrels. Imperialist rentboys. _Traitors,_ in a word. These misleaders will sell anyone and anything for a crumb of 'getting theirs'. Ten years ago? It was Syria and Libya. Today? Palestine and Haiti. Tomorrow? _It could be us._ The misleadership class might share our skin, but they _are not our kinfolk._ We need to recognize that, and begin cutting them out with even more rigor than what we used to mind our own with.
Blessed Wednesday, party people; let's get into it. Apparently, we've got some haughty, self-important Hollywood slimeball trying to corral opinions in manners that would be funny if it weren't so sad. > _“...the Jews were the ones that walked side by side with the Blacks to fight for their rights. And now the Black community isn’t embracing us and saying ‘We stand with you the way you stood with us’? Jews died for their cause. Where’s the history lesson in that? Who’s teaching these kids? Because the fact that the entire Black community isn’t standing with us, to me, says they don’t know, or they’ve been brainwashed to hate Jews.”_ - Julianna Margulies The context here? More cudgeling for support of Israel. She wound up having to [walk that nonsense](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/julianna-margulies-black-lgbtq-palestine-supporters-jews-comments-1234907065/) back this past Friday, too, and even then, her 'apology' was just as lacking as the average youtuber's; probably GPT-written to boot. > "I am horrified by the fact that statements I made on a recent podcast offended the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities, communities I truly love and respect,” so on, so forth. As usual, settlers apologizing that what they said/did/etc. was found offensive; and not actually apologizing for what they *did*. The, "I'm sorry you feel that way"-type non-pology. I don't want to belabor some Hollywood slime for too long though; 'cause y'all know me-- I like to save my boot-heeling for the government; and as is usual out of me, it's with the sage words of Margaret Kimberley, who just HAS NOT BEEN MISSING since I've started reading her. > It is a bad sign when the leader of the United States Senate sounds something like an actress with bizarre feelings of entitlement. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer pulled off this dubious feat with his statements about U.S. policy towards Israel, what he perceives to be anti-semitism, and public opinion about Israel’s attack on Gaza. His remarks resembled those of actress Julianna Margulies, whose infamous rant differed only in its lack of politesse. Of course, a senator has better political sense and more awareness than an entertainer, but aside from the manner of delivery, their thought processes don’t differ very much. > > ... > > If Schumer and others expect a quid pro quo for their actions they should just say so. “Black lives matter but only if you say what I want you to say for the next few decades,” would be outrageous if spoken out loud but that is the gist of the criticism. There is also an assumption of superiority, a belief that one group has the right to make itself more deserving of sympathy and is entitled to silence others or to say that disagreements amount to bigotry and hatred. > >Most importantly, Black people have every right to speak on any issue that we may choose. We have a right to our own politics. We have a right to choose who we will unite within bonds of solidarity. We have a right to praise or to condemn as we see fit. Expecting otherwise is to treat us as supplicants without agency who depend on the whims of others who can then cast us aside whenever doing so is politically convenient. In essence, if we're expected to just sit down, shut up, and let the Democrats carry out their murderous whims-- _(not even 'let', really, because they won't stop bleating, berating, and cudgeling us for uncritical support)_ -- then the genocidal uniparty has a few new things coming. The only way a subject-of-empire WOULDN'T be able to read the similarities between the Black plight, the Indigenous plight, and the Palestinian plight is if they were stricken blind, deaf, and dumb by the settlers in the first place. There's no denying there's a good deal of our kin been Sunken Place'd on shit like this. Look at the Congressional Misleader Caucus, or the Black Capitalists playing Pied Piper with their pseudo-cult followings. _"I'mma buy up the block but ultimately only buy like .5% of it while smoke-and-mirroring your ass into thinking I'm all that and a bag of donuts"._ Why my gut keeps saying, "fuck educating or uplifting the settlers-- we need to be figuring out who of our _kin_ is salvageable; and leave the ones that aren't to their inevitable 'reward'." We need to come together, meaningfully, as one mass, one giant middle finger to the Anglo-Zionist Axis, one cocked hammer against the settler project's skull. There is no future in which _**anyone**_ is free without it. No compromise, no retreat, people.
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>Hampton was a victim of the U.S. government’s Cointelpro (Counter Intelligence Program), founded by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover during the early 1950s to target for imprisonment and assassination individual leaders or movements fighting for national liberation and social justice. Some of the most well-known targets, besides Hampton, for COINTELPRO’s 24-hour surveillance, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, were Malcolm X, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Young Lords, political prisoners Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Black Panthers. > >Hampton was in the midst of helping to build a multinational united front of smaller revolutionary formations with varying ideologies in order to organize against U.S. imperialism at home and abroad. This strategy suffered a devastating setback with his assassination. > >Hampton had gained national prominence due to the dynamic way he spoke revolutionary truth to power, which resonated among the super-oppressed Black people. His growing popularity among the masses and the movement no doubt made him a primary target of the racist, repressive state. > >Sitting next to the blood-soaked bed where Hampton was killed was a book written by Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution. > >Fifty-four years after Hampton’s death, the following quotes heard from him in the 1971 documentary, “The Murder of Fred Hampton,” continue to inspire prior and new generations of activists who hate capitalism: > >“I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle. [Y]ou can kill a revolutionary, but you can’t kill revolution … you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.”
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>I Abdul Jon was a talented photographer. In the fall of 1981, Abdul and I went up to Rochester, New York, after a group of MOVE men and women were arrested on federal charges. Abdul and I were on assignment for the Philadelphia Tribune, he as photographer, I as the reporter. His photos helped make the articles come alive. > >The articles revealed a stark dichotomy between MOVE’s treatment in Philadelphia and Rochester. MOVE was doing the same thing in both cities, but they were demonized by the media in one city and left alone in the other. What a difference the media made! > >I Abdul Jon was a father and grandfather of a real host of kids: Nathaniel, David, Michael, Tariq, Malik, Shamira, Karlin, Braimeen, Yahmon, Rashad, Ibrahim, and Colchriston. As Wadiya used to tell me often, Abdul was a good brother. He returns to his ancestors after 74 winters in America. > >With love, not fear, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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>When first they arrived, European settlements were places of disease, hunger and pitiless death. First Nations folk fed the colonists, taught them planting and healed them with herbal treatments. They repaid them with unremitting war, smallpox used as biological weapons, land theft and slaughter. > >Thanksgiving may be a holiday, but it ain’t a holy day. > >It should be a day in remembrance of the First Nations that inhabited this land for tens of thousands of years.
> _The media misleaders are getting an early start on the 2024 presidential campaign season. Despite the fact that Biden has no competition from any democrat and the party has already said there will be no debates even if a competitor appears, Biden’s weak approval ratings and poor showing in polls vis a vis Donald Trump, have them running scared. They don’t know if Trump’s indictments will prevent him from running or if republican voters will choose him regardless of his legal complications._ > > _What are the misleaders to do under these circumstances? They have to begin the indoctrination process in earnest. This year their work is especially important in light of Biden’s role as accessory to Israel’s killing of more than 20,000 people in Gaza. The outrage felt by millions of people impacted Biden, whose approval rating is now only at 37%, an indication of peril for a sitting president._ > > _Not to worry though. Biden has help from Black pundits like Roland Martin, who in response to Arab-Americans declaring opposition to the man who is killing their people, raised the Trump specter right on cue. “Well @shadihamid @mehdirhasan, I totally get it, but Trump has made clear his Muslim ban goes into effect on day 1 and he will deport all Palestinians and immigrants who support them. His first time will look like recess compared to a 2nd one.”_ > > ... > > _Be prepared for more bamboozlement under the guise of journalism. Understand that Black politics will not be part of any discussion. Making it so would create a problem for people whose goal is to win office while also excluding the people whose votes they need. Media are an important part of sham democracy. No one should expect anything more than, “But Trump!” between now and November 2024._ This is genuinely all they got. The Donna Braziles, the Roland Martins, Colbert Kings, and Symone Sanderses of the world-- minstrels one and all, tap-dancing to the settlers' tune, and trying to fiddle the rest of _us_ along to it like the settlers aren't murdering others the way they murder us. And that's how they'll do it-- by breathlessly shrieking about the orange hobgoblin _**THAT THEY MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE**_ like he's _**ANY** different from the rest of them._ Democrats and their enablers will _never_ 'earn it'-- they won't even try until it's too late. We need to be walking away and doing for our communities what the settlers would never do for us. Separating from the settler menace, on every conceivable level until we're _fighting_ for the ground we intend to make _ours._ But _never,_ hand in hand with those who think we're stupid enough to uncritically 'fall in line' behind their Genocider-in-Chief. No compromise, no retreat.
> _The horrific scenes of carnage have evoked revulsion for millions of people in the United States and around the world. Huge protests have taken place nationally and internationally and the zionists find themselves on the public relations defensive but will not concede defeat. They are using brute force to dox, damage careers, end careers before they start, withhold funds, and use other means to silence righteous indignation over Israeli war crimes._ > _Enter the Black misleadership class, which is both vulnerable to pressure and devoid of principles. Not only do they choose to go along to get along, but they always manage to put our collective name in their unscrupulous butt kissing._ Apologies for the long time without a post here. Can't get back into the old account; so if you see it getting buck and out of pocket, that ain't me behind it anymore. To the meat of the article, "going along to get along"-- this is the root of why I believe we'll never get out from the thumb of genocidal colonials without a state of our own, carved out of Amerika's guts and governed to our own sovereignty-- so that the day comes when the world grows well and truly sick enough of the settler menace to start _doing things_ about them, we can sit back, raise our hands, and say _"Do as you will-- **we're not with them.** In fact, **we'll help."**_
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>Moreover, when we speak of “gangs,” we must recognize that the most powerful gangs in the country are subsidiaries of the U.S. itself: the United Nations Integrated Office (BINUH) and the Core Group, the two [neo]colonial entities which have effectively ruled the country since the U.S./France/Canada-backed coup d’etat of 2004. Haiti has no sovereignty and has long been under foreign occupation. The current de facto “Prime Minister” was installed by the Core Group — and whatever calls for military intervention are being made by those already occupying Haiti. > >We hold in contempt the neocolonial governments that are taking part in this mission to further oppress Haitian people and deny them sovereignty. We denounce the governments of Kenya and the CARICOM nations, such as the Bahamas, Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda, which have failed Haiti and have violated the notion of the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2357669 > "Europeans, open this book, look inside. After taking a short walk in the night you will see strangers gathered around a fire, get closer and listen. They are discussing the fate reserved for your trading posts and for the mercenaries defending them. They might see you, but they will go on talking among themselves without even lowering their voices. Their indifference strikes home: their fathers, creatures living in the shadows, your creatures, were dead souls; you afforded them light, you were their > sole interlocutor, you did not take the trouble to answer the zombies. The sons ignore you. The fire that warms and enlightens > them is not yours. You, standing at a respectful distance, you now > feel eclipsed, nocturnal, and numbed. It's your turn now. In the > darkness that will dawn into another day, you have turned into > the zombie."
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2330381 > > The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians under occupation in the racist, apartheid settler state of Israel. We recognize the right of Palestine to exist and the right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation. We call on African/Black people to remember our long tradition of solidarity with Palestine. > > > We condemn the monstrous and cowardly actions of the racist Zionist entity which is committing mass atrocities against the two million people who are locked in the open air prison of Gaza. As the crazed Zionists indiscriminately bomb civilians in Gaza, while characterizing Palestinians as “animals,” we are witnessing an international crime in real time - a genocide. This is a genocide that is fully supported and celebrated by other Western racist settler states - the morally depraved “international community.” > > Full text at the link.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2328738 > From what I read, and forgive me if I am wrong, Sister Souljah may not have been an explicit communist as someone like Angela Davis, but I came across this video today and found she was very on point. Solidarity to all of my black comrades. <3 _“Where is the white outcry…? Who are these ‘white good people?’ I want to see them. I want to meet them.”_ Positively prophetic.
