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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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Saturday
Apr092005

Is Ed Gordon Pushing the Right Wing Agenda on NPR?

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Since taking over for Tavis Smiley on NPR on February 2, 2005 Ed Gordon has used his radio show to showcase the right wing agenda. On at least 21 occasions over the past 2 months Gordon has had Republican guests such as RNC strategist Tara Wall (who?) or led discussions about the Republican agenda - gays, abortion and social security. To be sure Gordon has had Progressive guests on his show. But this is not an attempt at 'balancing the news' - it is an attempt to curve it. Ed Gordon has a Black Show (the only Black show on lilly white NPR). Blacks are not Republican - in November's election 88% of Blacks voted Democrat - in 2000 91% voted Democrat. Ed Gordon's guests and their  agenda are extreme and outside the mainstream of Black America. Why does he have these people on the radio nearly everyday?

Unlike previous "negro outreach" efforts, Republicans are not waiting until election time to begin their lame campaign of symbolic politics. There is nothing different about the right wing agenda this time:   they have nothing new to offer, they just want to improve their numbers.  Republicans are arrogantly up front about all this. Chairman Mehlman has stated that the goal of the "outreach" effort is to get 30% of the Black vote. In other words- they do what they do because of politics - not for any substantive, meaningful reasons.  And apparently now they have Ed Gordon to help them to do more talking about reaching out:

  • 4/1/2005 Ken Mehlman discusses the Republican National Committee's new strategies for winning 30 percent of the African-American vote by 2008
  • 3/31/2005 Discussion of Political Topics with Tara Wall of the Republican National Committee, adviser to George W. Bush's 2004 presidential campaign.
  • 3/24/2005 Reverend Joseph Watkins, pastor of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. Reverend Watkins worked for George W. Bush's 2004 campaign.
  • 3/23/2005 Republican MD. Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele and Renee Amoore, president of The Amoore Group, a Republican consulting firm based in Pennsylvania discuss the RNC's African-American Advisory Committee
  • 3/15/2005 Reverend Joseph Watkins, pastor of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. Reverend Watkins worked for George W. Bush's 2004 campaign.
  • 3/15/2005 Topic was "Implications of a ruling by a California judge that the state's current ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional"
  • 3/10/2005 Discussion of mayoral races and politics in the minority community with Tara Wall of the Republican National Committee, adviser to George W. Bush's 2004 presidential campaign.
  • 3/4/2005 Joseph C. Phillips NPR "columnist" who admittedley campaigned for George Bush discuss Condoleezza Rice running for president
  • 3/3/2005 with Fox News pundit Juan Williams discussing "Republican Party renews outreach to African-American community"
  • 3/2/2005 with Danny Diaz, deputy communications director for the Republican National Committee to discuss President Bush's Social Security agenda
  • 2/2/4/2005 with Reverend Joseph Watkins, pastor of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. Watkins worked for George W. Bush's 2004 campaign. to discuss African-Americans in the Democratic and Republican parties.
  • 2/18/2005 topic was the Democratic Party and its position on abortion,
  • 2/1/7/2005 Joseph Watkins pastor of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, who worked for George W. Bush's 2004 campaign. discuss the black Baptist agenda.
  • 2/17/2005 with David Kuo, a Republican, and Former Deputy Director, Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to discuss President Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives program.
  • 2/16/2005 with Republican Joseph Perkins to discuss Alan Keyes' daughter, lying scientists, affirmative action and global warming.
  • 2/11/2005 topic was "reaching out across common moral ground" - a discussion about gays.
  • 2/10/2005 with Tara Wall, Republican National Committee spokeswoman to discuss President Bush's budget proposal, AIDS in the African-American community and Howard Dean becoming the chairman of the Democratic National Committee
  • 2/9/2005 with Gospel Singer & Republican Marvin Winans to discuss Karl Rove and Republican Outreach to Blacks
  • 2/9/2005 with Reverend Creflo Dollar to discuss the moral issues of African-American voters - gays
  • 2/4/2005 with Republican Joseph Perkins to discuss President Bush's position on AIDS in the black community
  • 2/3/2005 with Republican Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell to discuss the president's State of the Union address