"...People that are steeped in the Black radical tradition understand that primary demands are those that distill the true aspirations of the people; they are formulated to galvanize the people, not for endorsement by those in power, who would be overthrown if the demands were actualized. Radicals also understand that there is a place for reformist demands, which are crafted to enhance the people’s power relative to the rulers, and to alleviate the people’s pain. But #BLM has eschewed both reformist and radical demands in its current campaign, revealing a loud but empty politics. We wish it were not so.
"... مردمی که ریشه در سنت راديکال سیاه پوستان دارند
درک می کنند که نطفه خواسته های اصلیشان در آرزوهای واقعی مردم نهفته است ; آنها فرموله شده اند برای تحریک مردم, نه برای مهر تایید زدن به صاحبان قدرت، که سرنگون خواهند شد اگر خواسته ها(ی مردم) تحقق بخشیده شود. رادیکالها در ضمن درک میکنند که جائی هم هست برای خواسته های اصلاح طلبانه, که برای افزایش دادن قدرت نسبی توده ها در مقابل حاکمان طرح ریزی میشود, و کاهش درد مردم . اما جنبش فوق الذکر در کمپین اخیرشان اجتناب ورزیده اند هم از خواستهای اصلاح طلبانه و هم راديکالشان , و آشکار کرده اند سیاستی پر سر و صدا ولی تو خالی ای را . ما آرزو میکردیم که اینچنین نمیبود.
by BAR
executive
editor Glen
Ford
Hillary
Clinton found
it easy to
reduce a
#BlackLivesMatter
delegation to
“school
children at an
elementary
civics class,”
when they met
with her last
week. Clinton
lectured the
activists on
the need to
make demands
on
politicians,
when all they
wanted to do
was talk about
“what in your
heart has
changed that’s
gonna change
the direction
of this
country?” The
#BLM set out
on a path that
leads
inevitably to
cooptation,
and quickly
arrived at
public
humiliation.
by BAR
editor and
senior
columnist
Margaret
Kimberley
U.S.
Secretary of
Education Arne
Duncan could
not contain
his gratitude
to Hurricane
Katrina, which
killed or
permanently
displaced much
of New
Orleans’ Black
residents.
Other whites
“wondered why
they could not
have been
fortunate
enough to have
a black
population
swept out of
town in a
matter of
days.” Katrina
was welcomed
by millions of
whites as an
opportunity
for economic
and ethnic
“renewal” – a
rationale that
would justify
genocide.
by BAR
editor and
columnist, Dr.
Marsha
Coleman-Adebayo
Luci
Murphy is a
“cultural
warrior” from
Washington DC
whose insights
are informed
by the
movements and
folkways of
people across
the globe.
“Black people
are constantly
creating
attractive new
musical forms,
then white
people learn
them and stop
hiring Black
people to play
the same
music, so the
Black people
go on to
develop
something else
that white
people cannot
play.”
California
Moves Towards
Banning Grand
Juries for
Police
Killings
by
the Real News
Network
by BAR
editor and
columnist Dr.
Jemima Pierre
The
U.S. invaded
and occupied
Haiti from
1915 to 1934,
and again
occupied the
country in
2004 after
overthrowing
the
democratically
elected
government.
The United
Nations then
partnered with
the
aggression,
installing
MINUSTAH, a
largely Black
and brown
military force
that brought a
cholera
epidemic,
looting of
mineral
resources,
rape,
assassinations
and a
criminally
corrupt puppet
regime.
by Paul
Street
by Danny
Haiphong
U.S.
foreign and
domestic
policy both
serve the same
corporate
master, whose
primary
pursuit is
profits. “The
same trillion
dollar
military
apparatus that
Washington
utilizes
against Syria
also
militarizes
the police to
occupy the
streets of
Ferguson,
Baltimore, and
Black cities
all over the
US.”
by
Jackie Miller
The
Whirlpool
Corporation,
with the
collaboration
of local
government, is
engaged in
ethnic
cleansing and
massive land
piracy in
mostly Black
Benton Harbor,
Michigan. “We
call it
fascism,”
writes
community
leader Rev.
Edward
Pinkney, now
serving 2 ½ to
10 years in
prison for
resisting the
racist
corporate
onslaught. “It
is part of the
process
underway
across America
in various
forms.”
by ROB
URIE
In
neoliberal
America,
race, class
and the naked
greed of
ruling elites
intent on
reducing
ever-increasing
numbers to
permanent debt
and penury
have brought
us to the
brink of
ruin...
