The “Usual Suspects”: Cops, Drugs, Guns, Gangs, and White People — Chicago’s major (“mainstream”) media all report that this just past, unconscionably deadly, July Fourth weekend recorded up to eighty-eight people shot, including as many as fourteen killed, across this troubled city’s mostly black South and West Sides. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) reports that from Friday the 2nd through early…

In 1976, after finally winning his first Grammy for “Best Album,” folk songster Paul Simon gave one of the most astounding acceptance speeches of all time. After thanking his fans, his producers, fellow musicians and singers, musical engineers… and even his parents, he then said: “But most of all I…

Proposes Law to Finally End It and Pay Black People for Services Rendered — We can’t let [the failed coup d’état] go because it directly connects with our legacy of racism and hate in this country that stems from the genocide of the indigenous Americans and the enslavement of African Americans. The legacy of that is institutional racism and white nationalism; and if we…

The First One was the 400-Year-Long War and Not Quite Total Extermination of Native Americans — Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. They do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing, already given, and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And…

Are the other forty-nine states listening? — The California Reparations Task Force is a governor-appointed nine-member panel that has determined that black Californians could be eligible for up to $223,200 each in recognition of and redress for historical, pervasive, and ongoing racial discrimination in housing policies and practices. The Task Force reached this number by studying the…

This is why he has never hired a black head coach. — The Washington Post has unearthed a sixty-five-year-old photograph of fifteen-year-old Dallas Cowboys (“America’s Team”) owner Jerry Jones standing in the thick of a mob of fellow white racist students at the height of the school desegregation fight in 1957. The exact same scenario was being played out at the nearby…

The ‘fix’ has always been in — Black Georgia is confronted with the very real possibility of losing its first black US Senator, the Right Reverend Raphael Warnock, an educated, articulate, erudite black man, who also holds forth from the sanctified pulpit once occupied by the sainted Right Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Senator Warnock’s GOP…

‘The Young Turks’ Boss Cenk Uygur Offers Her a Job On-Air — Although white people in our progressive cities and towns may pat themselves on the backs for having never called anyone a nigger, many of them also hope that we will not notice the strict racial segregation of neighborhoods and schools, the over-policing of black and brown neighborhoods, the job discrimination…