Of course Biden kicked progressives in the back in his first town hall, but the question on policing was a pivotal moment for why we need to understand the contribution of Huey P. Newton and what he and Bobby Seale gave us with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in how to fight this continuing battle of racist police terrorism.
Where did QAnon come from? Pizzagate, a lie about a pedo ring in Washington that some Progressives fell for too.
We told you the Democrats could not be pushed to the "left." Letting Neera Tanden anywhere near a cushy job in the Biden administration lets you know just where their loyalties lie. And it's not with the people. And that includes Uncle Bernie.
Yes, the way members of Congress have made excuses for the worst of the Trump coalition today is indeed a reflection of how it was possible that so many people accepted lynching, slavery, Jim Crow, and other racial violence. Even as they proclaim that they didn't participate, they were still very much complicit. Congress is showing you how right now.
We recognize and celebrate the one year anniversary of the publishing of a very important book written by our comrade and friend, Margaret Kimberley - Prejudential, Black America and The Presidents! We did this interview with Margaret a year ago as a video, but technical issues dogged us and we thought we'd lost it! But here we were able to salvage the audio and we're glad to have been able to preserve it to commemorate a truly prescient publication a year ago today!! Follow Luqman Nation on pat...
Of COURSE Amazon has been stealing off its employees' wages & tips! And how the alleged Constitution-loving hypocrites threw a hissy fit about an election that wasn't stolen from their Dear White Supremacist Leader, while ignoring the voting rights denied others for centuries, and that still are.
While GameStopGate has people rallying for regular people to be allowed the same access to the market as the capitalists who control it, history tells us that what they REALLY fear is if we unite and fight against the entire system. Why not let's do that instead? Support Luqman Nation on Patreon at Patreon.com/Luqmannation
Sadly I only had 10 minutes to talk about this and couldn't even address the fact that paying off student loans and being able to afford surgery is only possible in this country through a fluke of investing luck, but the basic principles behind the "free market" and the way the game of investing is absolutely rigged against everyone but the rich was made crystal clear in this issue with GameStop. More lessons in this than I had time to get into, but I hope you get the idea, that capitalism must ...
Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hill We Must Climb" is typical empty American Exceptionalism rhetoric presented as hope without substantive structural change by a young Black poet laureate in a spiffy yellow Prada coat.
The opulence and empty rhetoric of Joe Biden's & Kamala Harris's inauguration and the massive fireworks display to cap the event cast a cold shadow over the continued poverty, homelessness, and struggle of the people mere blocks and a very few miles away from the seat of US and global power.
While the system of capitalism is ultimately the problem and should be our focus, we should also look at how we support the same system, which only turns around and oppresses us with our own dollars.
I've got a bone to pick with progressives who decided that they had to distance themselves from "Antifa" because they were squeamish about throwing hands to fight fascists. When you let your enemies define who and what your allies are, you lose every time.
How will impeachment play out? I'm betting vegan cheese on the outcome. And every gravy train runs dry; the capitalists have scraped the bottom of Trump's.
If we were really serious about fascism and insurrection, we would be impeaching a whole lot more politicians than just Trump.
Wednesday was neither organic nor spontaneous, and it isn't' the end. The question is, what are WE going to
All these celebrations about Black people saving an election, the Senate, Congress, democracy, the country, the world mean nothing when liberals go back to brunch while our fight continues.
Representation matters for boosting self-esteem in children. Adults need to look beyond the window-dressing and analyze the politics behind the identieis.
Happy New Year! Nothing changes just because the date has changed. So the thing that needs to change is that YOU need to get to work.
We need to face the political realities of the day to be properly prepared for the struggle ahead. And the struggle is where our hope lies.
No, Trump isn't sincere about helping people. His demand for a bigger relief check is an attention-seeking strategic ploy. But the Democrats are so bad at their own strategy that they left themselves open for Trump to do this. And they didn't have to, if they weren't so busy crapping on the progressives in the party, and ultimately you and me.
These people are playing in our faces with all this money they're throwing around to everyone and everything else, while holding this paltry $600 for you and me hostage, and calling it "significant" while patting themselves on the back for ripping us off again. Somebody explain why we're not in full on pitchfork and torch mode yet!
Russiagate 2.0...or is it 3.0...is being deployed against already struggling Americans who the politicians that created the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression are using to deflect people's anger away from them. And I'm not just talking about Trump.
There are really no more valid reasons to keep the Electoral College. But Trump supporters who think the election was stolen from their fuhrer are not allies with us in this fight to do away with it.
The entire audio of the meeting between Joe Biden and the leaders of Black political organizations is indicative of the paternalistic, disrespectful, and condescending "relationship" between Biden and the Black people who dragged his half-dead carcass across the 270 finish line in this election. Nobody should be surprised, but the depth of disrespect is contemptible. But maybe not worse than the submissiveness to it from these "leaders."
The media won't even hold Republican voter suppression accountable, how are they going to hold Biden accountable? And if you thought Biden's COVID-19 plan was about saving you from coronavirus, think again.
Biden's choice for Secretary of Defense shows the ideological weakness of the immature and empty demand of "representation" in the positions of power in a capitalist, classist, racist, imperialist system. A Black face upholding the hegemony of US imperialism isn't progress for the Black masses.
The Democrats' terrible political strategy cost us dearly, and the anti-BDS rhetoric from Raphael Warnock is the latest in the campaign to separate Black Americans from international liberation struggles.
Sure voter fraud happens. But not in the way Trump wants to admit. And the real Black power that the legacy of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark left to achieve all power to the people, and not the Black buying power of Black Capitalism that today's celebrities hijack the movement toward liberation for.
Democratic politicians who won't stand up to the smear campaign against BDS and those who support Palestinian liberation do not deserve the support of the people who expect them to stand up for them.
