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The end of American Thanksgivings: A cause for Universal rejoicing
This article was first published in The Black Commentator in 2003 and republished in Black Agenda Report. Nobody but Americans celebrates Thanksgiving. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar. No Halloween of the imagination can rival the exterminationist reality that was the genesis, and remains the legacy, of the American Thanksgiving.
Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report Dies
n the fall of 2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report. Historic “firsts,” “mosts,” and “onlys” are the hallmarks of Glen Ford’s long career.
Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report Dies
Executive Editor Glen Ford: A Certified Elder of the Black Journalism Tribe In the fall of 2006,Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report. Historic “firsts,” “mosts,” and “onlys” are the hallmarks of Glen Ford’s long career.
Corporate Media and Black Fascism
Democrats are determined to snuff out freedom of speech and assembly to protect the corporate ruling order – while pretending it’s to safeguard Black people. The U.S. corporate ruling class finally has its “Reichstag fire” to justify suspension of constitutional liberties under cover of “national emergency.” There is, of course, no imminent threat to the U.S. state and its structures.
Will Nightmare Years Repeat Themselves?
Photo by Seven Shooter on Unsplash Yes, Until the People Kick Out the Cabal To take on the corporate imperial racial capitalist state, we need a Black-led movement that puts politics in command and names the Democratic perpetrators and collaborators that are culpable in the unfolding, late-stage capitalist disaster.
U.S. Capitol’s White riot the outgrowth of settler mentality
The Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was essentially a race riot, the product of White racial grievance. Mob violence by White people aggrieved at perceived threats to their political hegemony due to the growing influence or presence of the Other—most often, Blacks—is trademark Americana, an historically repetitive phenomena that is, to varying degrees, also characteristic of other White settler states that share the U.S.’s genocidal history.
Trump: Othello in a Corporate Theater
Trump the straw man has finally been knocked down, giving the Democrats a victory that costs their corporate masters nothing. Donald Trump has slunk off the national stage for the time being, but we must remember who made him a contender for president in the first place: the Democrats and their corporate media.
White Settler Uprising at the Capitol
Last week’s assault on the Capitol was essentially a race riot, the product of white racial grievance. “If it can happen in the United States, it can happen anywhere,” wrote New York Times Berlin bureau chief Katrin Bennhold , purporting to sum up world leaders’ reaction to the white nationalist assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Biden, the emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball
Posted Nov 30, 2020 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (November 26, 2020) | The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker when summoned.
Is Joe Master of Ceremonies at the Billionaires’ Ball?
The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker when summoned. The Orange Era of racist rants will soon be over – just a few hundred mad tweets to go till January 20th, when the head flunky for the real rulers of the USA will take over the levers of government.
Are Black Men Leaving Democrats?
A significant portion of Black males are “contrarians” that take positions at odds with the general Black political consensus – while Black women tend to take the communal approach. Corporate media are all abuzz about the relatively high numbers of Black men that voted for Donald Trump this election cycle.
Corporate Democrats want to run against Trump-like Republicans forever
Posted Nov 11, 2020 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (November 5, 2020) | Whoever wins the Electoral College, race-based politics will continue to allow the corporate rulers to ignore public demands for relief from the Race to the Bottom and endless war. Publishing deadlines refuse to adjust to the speed of vote counting, but some truths were evident even as the presidential race was still in play.
Race-Based Politics Still Reigns
Whoever wins the Electoral College, race-based politics will continue to allow the corporate rulers to ignore public demands for relief from the Race to the Bottom and endless war. Publishing deadlines refuse to adjust to the speed of vote counting, but some truths were evident even as the presidential race was still in play. In his second national contest Donald Trump has maintained — and among some demographic subsections increased — his hold on a majority of white voters.
Blacks Demand Transformative Change
Allegiance to the Democratic half of the duopoly – whether active or passive – is still allegiance to corporate rule, not a strategy for transformative change. For the second presidential election cycle in a row, the corporate Democrats face their ideal opponent — a racist so brazen and personally repulsive that Blacks and progressives abandon their own historic agendas to make common cause with mass incarcerators, war mongers and job-destroying oligarchs.
Black Alliance Promotes Peace
https://blackallianceforpeace.com Corporate institutions and their Black servants conspire to hide the fact that the Black American worldview is profoundly Left on issues of peace and social justice.
Malcolm X - Still Relevant
Photo by Philipp Pilz on Unsplash The fox and wolf parties – both corporate canines – debate how best to acclimate the masses to their deepening state of precarity. “The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling.
Corporate Duopoly Wins Again
The incoherence of the Biden-Trump debate will be repeated every election cycle until Blacks and progressives break with the corporate duopoly. “There is nothing smart or ‘strategic’ about falling for the same trick every election cycle.” The rich man’s media are calling it “the worst debate in modern American history,” but that’s because the truth is often painful to watch.
Power of the People
Photo by Jakayla Toney on Unsplash The New York Times and fellow corporate media discourage Americans from organizing against the rule of the rich by pretending that People Power is a fantasy. Like three card monti scammers everywhere, the oligarchs that rule the United States strive constantly to keep the populace guessing where the “money card” – in this case, the real power in society – is located.
Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police
Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support?
Does Biden Offer More of the Same, Just Without Trump?
More War, Austerity and White Supremacy – Just Without Trump Biden is an unreconstructed racist and warmonger who has been in the forefront of austerity, and Harris is a party hack and mass Black incarcerator who became a prosecutor with police union endorsement.
You can’t understand capitalism without race
Posted Aug 19, 2020 by Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (August 18, 2020) | The centrality of race in the devilment of capitalism continues to be resisted by “the sort of hardline, orthodox folks who only look at class, alongside the sort of liberals and so-called racial multiculturals who have the misconception that race no longer matters,” said Charisse Burden-Stelly, professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College.
The Minneapolis Police Name-Change Con
When Black Lives Matter chapters demand “abolition” and “defunding” of the police, rather than community control of the cops, they play into the hands of charlatans and misleaders on city councils and in the halls of Congress. The proposed charter amendment was at best a symbolic gesture and at worst lessened police accountability for past and future crimes.
Political Prisoners of the (White) American Dream
“Say Their Names” Unless folks are under the delusion that victory over the “fascists” is imminent, the condition of political prisoners should be a deeply personal, as well as political, concern to all activists. It has become a righteous ritual: the recitation of the names of those whose lives were snatched away by the armed agents of the U.S. state.
The Black Caucus and the dictatorship of (White) capital
Posted Aug 03, 2020 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (July 30, 2020) | Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers. What makes the U.S. “chattering classes” so worthless is their refusal to talk about anything except those subjects that are approved for public discourse by the Lords of Capital, as certified by the high priests of corporate media.
The Black Liberation Movement Ended
The Black Caucus and the Dictatorship of (White) Capital Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers. Clearly, the Democratic Party is the mechanism that spawns and nurtures Black politicians answerable to the Dictatorship of (White) Capital.
Who is the most dangerous fascist?
Posted Jul 25, 2020 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (July 23, 2020) | Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the word’s meaning.
Federal Agents in Unmarked Vehicles
Who Is the Most Dangerous Fascist? Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the word’s meaning.
Why Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change
An existential political crisis for the racial capitalist order will only happen when the left puts forward a viable political alternative. The Covid-19 epidemic proved beyond all rational doubt that decades of bipartisan privatization and austerity had destroyed the U.S. “public” health care system, rendering the nation structurally incapable of coping with the viral onslaught.
Democratic Party Embraces Black Lives Matter?
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power.
Don’t let the Democratic Party bury the movement
Posted Jul 11, 2020 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (July 9, 2020) | The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power. If power is measured by corporate endorsements and the kiss-up antics of Democratic politicians, the movement popularly known as “Black Lives Matter” is awesomely powerful, its name painted into the streets of cities across the nation.
Protest and Power: The Black Misleadership Class
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams. The most widespread protests since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated – and by far the most ethnically diverse oppositional turnout in modern U.S. history – have crested, although demonstrations and occupations continue in many localities.
For more than 500 years, Europeans have invaded and looted the planet, yet their home civilizations are deemed so fragile that they must be insulated against the cultures of the formerly colonized peoples. Having created millions of Muslim and African wa
The European Union Plans War to Keep Europe White By Glen Ford May 14, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "BAR" - For more than 500 years, Europeans have invaded and looted the planet, yet their home civilizations are deemed so fragile that they must be insulated against the cultures of the formerly colonized peoples. Having created millions of Muslim and African war refugees, the Europeans now gear up to attack the boats that might bring them to Europe.
Community Control Reimagines Who Holds Power
Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.
Community Control of More Than Just Police
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and acceptable. The wave of people’s protests across the nation, backed by solidarity actions in cities around the world, has caused the corporate oligarchy and its servants to make promises they can’t keep and give lip service to programs they have always resisted.
MR Online | The Movement gets BIG–and its enemies reveal themselves
Posted Jun 06, 2020 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (June 4, 2020) | The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the politics of the street. The scope and intensity of the convulsion that has shaken the United States since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, is breathtaking.
The Movement Gets BIG – and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves - LA Progressive
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the politics of the street. The scope and intensity of the convulsion that has shaken the United States since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, is breathtaking.
Death by Blue Plague
George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion. The pathogen that kills Black people at two and a half times the rate of whites took the life of 46 year-old George Floyd, this week in Minneapolis. Floyd’s last words were, “I can’t breathe,” much like the desperate utterances of plague victim Eric Garner, struck down in 2014 in New York City.
The blue plague and black death
Posted May 29, 2020 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (May 27, 2020) | George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion. The pathogen that kills Black people at two and a half times the rate of whites took the life of 46 year-old George Floyd, this week in Minneapolis.
Mass Covid Death Toll: Life and Death for Blacks
Not just Trump, but the whole US ruling class must pay for the mass Covid death toll among Blacks, because only the ruling class has the power to systematically allocate life-death chances for whole populations over generations. To limit the indictment to Donald Trump and his administration would be an insult to today’s dead and dying.
Leftists Jump the Corporate Democratic Ship, Leaving Sanders Behind
History may record that the corporate duopoly dike was finally broken in the Time of Plague, with the defection of Bernie’s former sheep from the Corporate Democratic Party. The leftish exit from the two-corporate-party electoral racket has finally begun.
Leftists jump the Corporate Democratic ship, leaving Sanders behind
Posted May 16, 2020 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (May 14, 2020) | History may record that the corporate duopoly dike was finally broken in the Time of Plague, with the defection of Bernie’s former sheep from the Democratic Party. The leftish exit from the two-corporate-party electoral racket has finally begun.
The Demise of Bernie Sanders
The Democratic Party is a servant of corporate capital and cannot possibly be converted to a people’s party. The rise and demise of Bernie Sanders proves the point. The people were force-fed the reality that the United States has no health care system capable of defending the public against invading viruses.
Late-Stage Racial Capitalism Opened Door to Killer Virus
The white settler state always inflicts excessive mortality on racially subject peoples, and capitalism inflicts death on large sections of its disproportionately non-white working class and poor.
Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism
The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration. The only cure is socialism. The duopoly parties’ refusal to establish a national health care system, beginning with Medicare for All, can only be understood in the context of the Race to the Bottom.
The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left
Bernie Sanders’ early Return of the Prodigal Son to the bosom of the Party allows him to escape the deep critique of capitalist medicine and political-economy that would be required of a “leftish” presidential candidate as this never-in-our-lifetimes crisis unfolds. The COVID-19 epidemic has exposed the privatized US healthcare structure’s woeful incapacity to cope with a general health emergency, as well as the failings of Europe’s austerity-shrunken public health care systems.
Resistance growing to covid-capitalism
Posted Apr 14, 2020 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (April 9, 2020) | Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital–like the killer virus–cares for nothing but reproducing itself.
Capitalist Healthcare Is a Contradiction in Terms
Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital – like the killer virus — cares for nothing but reproducing itself. What some may remember as the Year of the Lost Spring – lost loved ones, lost jobs, lost freedom of movement – may also become the year that the oligarchy and its servants in both corporate parties lost popular permission to dictate the terms of life and death in the United States.
“The American Disease”: Only the Overthrow of the Oligarchy Will Cure It
The American Disease Although the coronavirus provided the trigger for the current global shrinkage, the economic crisis was already looming when the pathogen made its physical appearance. “The Race to the Bottom cannot coexist with a living wage or a truly universal national health care system.” Donald Trump mouths the words “Chinese disease” with a racist sneer, playing a juvenile game of “dozens” while the world economy shrinks.
Virus highlights internal contradictions of our system
The COVID-19 epidemic reveals the stark truth: the US dismantled and privatized its public health system to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent. The nation that considers itself to be the apex of capitalist achievement on planet Earth turns out to have no health care system worthy of the name—a testament to the sucking moral vacuum at America’s imperial, White settler colony core.
Time Of Plague And Meltdown: Mass Murder By Corporate Duopoly
Time Of Plague And Meltdown: Mass Murder By Corporate Duopoly By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. April 2, 2020 Time Of Plague And Meltdown: Mass Murder By Corporate Duopoly2020-04-022020-04-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/04/coronavirus.png200px200px Above photo: By Josh Edelson/ Getty Images.
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