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Cress Welsing: The Definition of Racism White Supremacy

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Racism

Anon: What is Racism/White Supremacy?

Dr. Bobby Wright: The Psychopathic Racial Personality

The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)

What is the First Step in Counter Racism?

Genocide: a system of white survival

The Creation of the Negro

The Mysteries of Melanin

'Racism is a behavioral system for survival'

Fear of annihilation drives white racism

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Caucasian

Where are all the Black Jurors? 

The War Against Black Males: Black on Black Violence Caused by White Supremacy/Racism

Brazen Police Officers and the Forfeiture of Freedom

White Domination, Black Criminality

Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Race is Not Real but Racism is

The True Size of Africa

What is a Nigger? 

MLK and Imaginary Freedom: Chains, Plantations, Segregation, No Longer Necessary ['Our Condition is Getting Worse']

Chomsky on "Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers." 

A Goal of the Media is to Make White Dominance and Control Over Everything Seem Natural

"TV is reversing the evolution of the human brain." Propaganda: How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don't Know It.

Spike Lee's Mike Tyson and Don King

"Zapsters" - Keeping what real? "Non-white People are Actors. The Most Unrealistic People on the Planet"

Black Power in a White Supremacy System

Neely Fuller Jr.: "If you don't understand racism/white supremacy, everything else that you think you understand will only confuse you"

The Image and the Christian Concept of God as a White Man

'In order for this system to work, We have to feel most free and independent when we are most enslaved, in fact we have to take our enslavement as the ultimate sign of freedom'

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population?

Who Told You that you were Black or Latino or Hispanic or Asian? White People Did

Malcolm X: "We Have a Common Enemy"

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Sunday
Nov162014

Advocates challenge Pennsylvania Mumia law as First Amendment violation

[JURIST]

Mumia Abu-Jamal [JURIST news archive] and supporters filed a lawsuit [text, PDF] Monday challenging a recently passed Pennsylvania law [complaint, PDF] that they claim stifles free speech. The law, an amendment to the Crime Victims Act [text, PDF] titled "Revictimization relief," states that victims of personal injury crimes can bring civil actions against offenders to get either "injunctive or appropriate relief" for any conduct that "perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime on the victim." Opponents of the law, such as the Abolitionist Law Center [advocacy website], argue that it is an attempt by Pennsylvania lawmakers to silence Abu-Jamal and those similarly situated in an unconstitutional manner. They cite the fact that the bill was signed into law 16 days after Abu-Jamal's pre-recorded commencement speech was delivered at Goddard College as a clear demonstration that this law was passed as a political tactic aimed particularly at silencing Abu-Jamal. They also cite statements made by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett at a press conference in which he stated that the law was intended to restrict the ability of Abu-Jamal and other "violent felons" from "using public venues to promote themselves and their own agenda." However, supporters of the law, such as Corbett, claim that it was passed in attempt to remedy the revictimization of all personal injury crime victims.

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