Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 5, 2020 by Black Agenda Radio published on 2020-10-06T15:58:05Z Black Is Back Coalition to March on White House For the 12th consecutive year, the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will march on the White House, November 7, this time under the themes “Black Power Matters,” “Down with Colonialism” and “Black Community Control of the Police.” Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela said community control of police is “the political demand that speaks directly to the issues” that have propelled unprecedented levels of protest in the United States, this year. Anti-Blackness Throughout the Americas Anti-Blackness is the common denominator underlying Black people’s high rates of death from poverty, disease and police violence on both continents of the western hemisphere, said Jameelah Imani Morris, an activist-scholar working on her PhD at Stanford University. Like the United States, many nations of Latin America were “established on violence” against Black and indigenous people, said Morris. If Breonna Were White… In an essay titled “Breonna’s Deathbed,” political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal asks if the Louisville cops that killed Breonna Taylor would still be free if they had shot to death a white woman in her bedroom. Abu Jamal noted that Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was killed by police while asleep in his bed, December 4, 1969. Economically Fading US Chooses Military Confrontation Unable to keep up with China economically, the United States is militarily encircling its rival and “creating the conditions of a New Cold War,” said Danny Haiphong, contributing editor at Black Agenda Report and co-coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace Supporter Network. Haiphong notes that China has already surpassed the US in “purchasing power parity” while raising hundreds of millions of its people out of poverty. Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:am ET on PRN. Length: one hour. Genre News & Politics Comment by John Ellis As a white boy having grown up in the slums of Milwaukee, Minneapolis and LA, during WW2 and from time to time among the homeless, often I have wondered why it is that people of your intelligent and highly educated middle-class think it a shame to be less intelligent. For were we not all created with a different level of intelligence so that the moral fabric of society can live, move and have it's being? For having compassion for those less intelligent, giving charity to those less fortunate and in a way that best produces a grateful response, is that not what morality is all about? 2020-10-11T20:43:50Z Comment by John Ellis Since the beginning of civilization, half of society has always been the laboring-class who do all the manual labor. And because humans by nature are selfish, the laboring-class has always been enslaved as the 50% working-poor. And so, as 20% of white race is laboring-class, 60% of brown race is laboring-class and 90% of black race laboring-class, my thought is, the purpose of planet earth is to reach the ultimate conclusion of evil. 2020-10-11T20:06:38Z Comment by John Ellis The 50% working-poor, they being the 50% who never vote, what effect will it have in getting them to the polls if Joe Biden wins the White House? None what so ever as being poor kills all desire to vote. On the other hand, if progressives go down into the slums and motivated the poor to vote third-party, surely, 2024 would be the grand year of liberation. 2020-10-11T19:43:16Z Comment by John Ellis We the 50% working-poor, we the black, brown and white who are enslaved by poverty and terrorized by killer-cops, we are the 50% who never vote. For republicans are the 25% most wealthy, democrats are the 25% intelligent middle-class and together they always vote to make us powerless by poverty. 2020-10-11T19:21:11Z Comment by John Ellis Black Lives Matter movement has absolutely nothing to do with race. For just because the black community happens to be the poorest of the poor, this has nothing to do with the root cause. For poor power is name of the game, the 50% working-poor being the only ones protesting. 2020-10-11T19:03:52Z
