The Obama Legacy, Pt 1 of Many: Top Ten Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama
This week in Black Agenda Report
The Obama Legacy, Pt 1 of Many: Top Ten Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama
by BAR managing editor Bruce A.
Dixon
When Barack Obama leaves the White House
in January 2017, what will black America, his earliest and most consistent
supporters, have to show for making his political career possible. We'll have
the T-shirts and buttons and posters, the souvenirs. That will be the good news.
The bad news is what else we'll have.... and not.
Freedom Rider: Every Day Terror
by BAR editor and senior columnist
Margaret Kimberley
“Americans are
like spoiled children, whining over their suffering, while showing no empathy
for anyone else’s.” Worse, they give the OK to kill other people’s children all
across the non-white world. They are easily frightened, throwing away their
civil liberties at the drop of a hat, yet generous in insane ways, sending $20
million to Boston without “knowing who needed it or for what
purpose.”
White Chechens Open New Vistas of Repression in America
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor
Glen Ford
The Chechens are coming – and they're
white! Like other pale-skinned immigrant groups, they appear to be flourishing.
Only in America could lightly armed youngsters “represent a threat so awesomely
dreadful as to spread fear up and down the great megalopolis stretching from
Boston to Washington.”
Latin America Unites to Tell Uncle Sam “Hands Off Venezuela”
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor
Glen Ford
Washington smelled blood when the
successors to Hugo Chavez won by only a small margin in Venezuelan elections.
The U.S. refused to recognize the results, gearing up for regime change.
However, “Latin America quickly united to blunt the Yankee offensive in its
tracks.” Washington must be taught, repeatedly, that it does not have a backyard to its
south.
US & France Intervene in Mali To Protect Land & Resource Grabs, Not Because of Al Qeda
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR
managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The US has boots on the ground and manned
& unmanned aircraft in the skies of Mali, to answer supposed threats to US
national security poised by Al Qeda. If you believe that, you believe Saddam
actually had nuclear weapons. The US and France are in Mali to prevent its civil
society from controlling its land and water, & to preserve predatory Western
leases on hundreds of square miles in Mali that prop up the recent reconquest of
Libya.
Fortress America Besieged: War Penetrates Imperialist Sanctuary
by Omali Yeshitela
The Who and Why of the events in Boston
are by no means clear, given the machinations of the U.S. secret services. One
thing is certain, however: “The Obama regime will use the Boston
bombing as an excuse to initiate even more odious attacks on freedom within the
U.S. with the willingness of a frightened white
population.”
A Plague of Desolationists on the “Left”
by Randy Shields
“Desolationists believe that America’s
non-stop bombing of other nations is either no issue at all or not nearly as
important as being pro-choice or supporting gun control or marriage equality.”
They are worse than useless. Plus, “with blacks standing down indefinitely, the
working class doesn’t have the rage to stop Obama from taking the first swings
of the wrecking ball to Social Security.”
The Persecution of Lynne Stewart
by Chris Hedges
Lynne Stewart has served three years for
the crime of zealously defending her client. Suffering stage 4 cancer, she
sometimes sheds “a few tears at the love and intensity of those who have written
to state their support.” Family and friends ask that she be allowed
compassionate release, but “the Federal Bureau of Prisons rarely even bothers to
submit compassionate release requests to the
courts.”
Rebels and Love in Central African Republic
by Okello Oculi
The French and assorted European and Arab
slavers loved the people of the Central African Republic to death. More
recently, the country has repeatedly dissolved in lusty coups, abetted by her
foreign lovers. It is time for the African Union to end the one-way embrace of
the Central African Republic, and prosecute her rapacious suitors for
“decades of willful
expropriation and genocide.”
Police Brutality in DC Classroom
by Seema Sadanandan
The Newtown massacre generated reflexive
calls for posting police in classrooms, a policy that has long been in place in
inner city schools, with devastating effect. “In the matrix of
policies and police ushering black and brown students out of classrooms and into
courtrooms, the School-to-Prison Pipeline takes
shape.”
My Wise Country Cousin On The War On Terror
by Raymond Nat Turner
Obama can find his anti-terror tools at
the 99 cents store.
Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – 3/24/13
Chicago Teachers Prepare Electoral
Challenge to Mayor Emanuel
Massive school closings have made Chicago “ground zero” in the battle to
preserve public education, said Michael Brunson, of the Chicago Teachers Union.
Fifty-four schools have been targeted for closure, this year, most of them in
Black and brown neighborhoods. “People don’t want to move into a community if
they don’t have a school they can send their children to,” said Brunson. “It’s
part of a downward spiral that disinvests from our communities and causes them
to crumble.” The teachers union plans to register 100,000 new voters to
challenge mayoral control of the schools.
NYC Parents
Boycott High Stakes Testing
With their parents’ permission, students
at 33 New York City schools will opt out of scheduled standardized tests. “We
feel that there is too much riding on these exams that have so much to do with
the dismantling of the public school system,” said Cynthia Copeland, a parent and
member of Time Out From Testing. “It’s this constant teaching to the test;
there’s no real learning going on.”
Newark Protests Against Social Security
Cuts
The People’s Organization for Progress
held demonstrations, in Newark, New Jersey, to protest President Obama’s
proposed cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs.
ChairmanLarry
Hamm noted that POP endorsed Obama
“in both elections after much discussion and debate.” But, “now we turn around
and have to fight the very guy we voted for.” Obama, said Hamm, is “the first
Democratic president to actually propose cuts to Social
Security.”
Obama is “Face of Capitalist
Empire”
“From the start, Obama has been leading the
charge to betray Social Security and the foundation of the Democratic Party’s
policy platform, which is the New Deal,” said Kevin Alexander
Gray, the Columbia, South Carolina writer and activist. “Obama is the face of
the capitalist empire; that’s what he believes in,” said Gray. “What troubles me
about Black Obama supporters is, they just seem to ignore it. It’s all about
misguided racial pride.”
EEOC Dismisses Black Complaints, Blames
Sequestration
The
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that sequestration-mandated
spending cuts will add to the agency’s backlog of employment discrimination
cases. But Ricardo Jones, the former chief investigator for the
EEOC’s southern New York region, says the Commission is already dismissing the
vast majority of Black complaints, and “hasn’t paid overtime to any investigator
or mediator at the EEOC for the past 15 years. According to Jones, the
Commission “only finds reasonable cause 3.1% of the time. That’s worse than the
Bush administration.”
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