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How a Black Evangelical Denomination was Duped into “Blessing” Israel

“There are more than 40 million Black Americans, they spend more than $1.3 trillion a year, so we’re a measurable market, a measurable group of people, easily identified, and we think we can also contribute to the advancement of Israel.”  - Glenn Plummer, Bishop of Israel
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Reparations and the Palestinian Right of Return: Two Sides of the Same Bloody Coin

The calls “Black Lives Matter” and “Free, Free Palestine,” serve to remind us that Palestine is not free and that if the lives of Black people mattered, there would be no need for the call. In both cases, people are in the grips of a cruel, racist system that refuses to let go. In both cases, people are being hunted down, caged, strangled, and shot to death, and the root cause of their suffering is rarely addressed.

Gun Control in America Has Always Been About Disarming Black People

(ANTIMEDIA) — Americans calling for gun control in 2018 often argue that a cursory glance at history proves there was never meant to be an unrestrained right to own firearms — that there were always meant to be restrictions on gun ownership. In at least one respect, they are correct: United States history shows there has […]

New Cold War against Shi’a Islam and old fashioned US racism directed against Russians

America’s Democratic party has a long, fraught, disturbing and surprisingly un-examined history with racism. After the US Civil War ended and the slaves of America’s south became free, the Democratic Party of the American south became a bulwark of anti-black racism. The Democrats made sure that through their ‘Jim Crow Laws’ free black men could not vote or receive anything close to equal rights with their white fellow  Americans.