Monthly Archives: August 2014

OUR COMMON GROUND This Week “BLACK St. Louis: Then and Now” l A Native Son Reflects l Dr. Thabiti Lewis

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“My St. Louis then and now”
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Dr. Thabiti Lewis

We will talk with Dr. Lewis about his perspectives of its racial history, how and why Black people have become so marginalized and disenfranchised producing a Ferguson, MO, a suburb.

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"BLACK St. Louis: Then and Now" l A Native Son Reflects

Guest: Dr. Thabiti Lewis, Professor, Scholar and Scholar 

Race and Gender Studies, AfAm Lit
Washington State University – Van Couver
Author, " Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America"

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Thabiti Lewis is from St. Louis Missouri, where he grew up in West and North St. Louis. Recently in response to the brutal killing of Michael Brown he wrote an essay published by the St. Louis Post Dispatch addressing growing up in St. Louis from the perspective of his childhood and this tragic event. "My St. Louis then and now"

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How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism

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A host of new groups are reviving the grassroots fight for racial equality.

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“A moment of trauma can oftentimes present you with an opportunity to do something about the situation to prevent that trauma from happening again,” said Charlene Carruthers, one the activists at the conference."

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The ALFO Show l When Injustice Becomes Law ? l Friday, Aug. 28 LIVE

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"When Injustice Becomes Law ?"

Even in the face of great protest and apparent police brutality and murder, there remains the dead bodies of Black people, and the officials of law deny what our lying eyes show us.

This week ALFO asks, "when INJUSTICE BECOMES LAW – Will RESISTANCE BE ENOUGH?"

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#Ferguson: An American Apartheid

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“#Ferguson: An American Apartheid”   

by Goldie Taylor

 

“By the time my maternal grandparents arrived in 1932, my father’s family had already been in St. Louis some 35 years. Like those who migrated north, both before and after them, they found a city bu…

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"For too many, including my family, that meant living in silence with the realities of over-policing, racial profiling and red-lining, never really mounting a fight against the confines of social and economic injustice with any fervor. It meant never seeing the ballot box as a meaningful mechanism for substantive change." 

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#Ferguson: An American Apartheid

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By the time my maternal grandparents arrived in 1932, my father’s family had already been in St. Louis some 35 years. Like those who migrated north, both before and after them, they found a city burgeoning with commerce, replete with manufacturing jobs, economic opportunities previously unknown to them. But they also found a city in turmoil, an increasingly diverse tapestry of settlers and immigrants in the midst of reconciling itself to its changing identity.

In 1917, there had been labor riots fueled by racial tensions just across the Mississippi River in neighboring East St. Louis, Illinois—a boomtown known for its cheap coal, slaughterhouses and aluminum production. With African Americans landing jobs with companies like American Steel and Aluminum Ore, job and wage security as well as rumors of race-mixing set off nearly two months of violence. That bloodstained offensive on black newcomers still stands as one of the…

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Ferguson Unmasks the War on Black America | Black Agenda Report

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“The brave and besieged people of Ferguson, Missouri, have already caused serious complications for the U.S. National Security State.” 

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"A Force to Crush a People

 

White America perceived that it was at war with Black people, who no longer knew their place – and so, places of confinement were made for them; fortified dungeons to house millions. Since America tells itself and the rest of the world that it does not make war on its own citizens, and that there is a sharp and Constitutionally defined separation between the military and civilian functions of the State, the war against Black people had to be called something else – a War on Drugs, or simply a War on Crime. Therefore, it was not long before the words “crime” and “drugs” and “Black” came to mean the same thing since, really, there was only one war going on. And, it continues, still."

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The Fire This Time: America’s Truce in the Fight Against Racism Guarantees More Fergusons

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Because of the persistence of racism and a relaxation of the fight against it, we are moving backwards. Ferguson is just the latest illustration.

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Bob Hebert is a wise and insightful voice in America. 

" Black people all across America, not just in Ferguson, are angry about the killing of Michael Brown. And they remain angry over the killing of Trayvon Martin. And many are seething over the fatal chokehold clamped on the throat of Eric Garner by a cop on Staten Island in New York—a cop who refused to relent even as Garner gasped, “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.”   

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Black America and the burden of the perfect victim

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Michael Brown wasn’t an angel. Does that mean he had it coming?

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On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala., and became an icon. But Parks was not the first to defy the rules. Nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. In an interview last year with Democracy Now, Colvin said that when the cops arrived and ordered her to get up, “it felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, and I could not move.”

So they pulled her up and jailed her. Colvin sued and became one of the five plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, a desegregation case that would reach the Supreme Court. In November 1956, the court ordered the end of bus segregation in Alabama. Parks was not involved in that suit.

 

But Colvin did not become an icon of the civil rights movement. In a March 2009 interview, she told NPR that civil rights leaders at the time thought Parks would be a better symbol for the movement. Parks “was an adult,” Colvin said. “They didn’t think teenagers would be reliable.” She also speculated that Parks had the right look for the part. “Her skin texture was the kind that people associate with the middle class. She fit that profile.”

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White privilege: An insidious virus that’s eating America from within

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Ferguson offers white people a chance to understand the price of our privilege

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"But the most insidious power of white privilege, the albatross effect that makes it so oppressive to white people themselves, is the way it renders itself invisible and clouds the collective mind. It’s like a virus that adapts in order to ensure its own survival and perpetuation, in this case by convincing its host it isn’t there." 

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The ALFO SHOW l LIVE l “Do Black Lives Matter?” l Call In

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Friday, August 22, 2014     10 pm ET

"Bodies are not left in the streets of the leafy suburbs. The bodies of dogs and cats, or squirrels and raccoons, let alone the bodies of children, are not left in the streets of the leafy suburbs. No bodies are left in the streets of the financial districts. Freeze to death on a bench in the financial districts and you are whisked away before your inconvenient body can disturb the folks in line at the Starbucks across the street. But the body of a boy can be left in the street for four hours in a place like Ferguson, Missouri, and who knows whether it was because people wanted to make a point, or because nobody gave a damn whether he was there or not.  "  Charles Pierce, Esquire Magazine

 

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