Black Agenda Report - Apr 25 – May 1

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BAR-produced stories:

Alberto Gonzalez and Voter Suppression: The Dead Dog in the Room
By BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
Pundits and comedians alike had a field day with Attorney General Gonzalez’s amnesiac performance on Capitol Hill, last week. However, the corporate press seem not to recall that the core issue in the wholesale firing of U.S. Attorneys was their failure to cooperate fully in the GOP’s voter suppression jihad. Democrats also appear to have experienced a crisis of memory, failing to recollect that massive voter suppression, mainly targeting Blacks and Latinos, is what put George Bush in the White House, twice.

Freedom Rider: Seung-Hi and John McCain
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley
Senator John McCain, a man who would be president, thinks it’s funny to joke about bombing Iranians. McCain shares a moral sickness with many others in positions of power – most notably, George W. Bush. Yet the relative silence surrounding McCain’s macabre behavior is also an indictment of a society that casually contemplates mass murders of Others, while holding days of national mourning for their own dead. Cho was a sick man, in excruciating psychic pain. McCain and his ilk treat truly mass murder as comical.

Obama, the Phony Anti-War Candidate: Kucinich is the Real Deal
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford
Through his own statements, Barack Obama relentlessly destroys his former anti-war credentials. In an effort to establish himself as a “statesman” in the eyes of the power structure, Obama now advocates a much larger Army and Marine Corps to allow the U.S. to “lead the world in battling immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good.” Do not expect a “peace dividend” under a President Barack Obama. The only genuine peace candidate is Rep. Dennis Kucinich, of Ohio – which is why the corporate media pretend Kucinich doesn’t exist.

Other articles in this issue:

The Origin of Violence in Virginia: A Brief History
by Jonathan Scott
Gun control will not prevent violence and mass murder in America – certainly not in Virginia, a state that is “second to none” in its barbaric history of violence. The author puts the origins of endemic violence in perspective, as the legacy of racial and class exploitation that claimed whole peoples, and has never truly ended. Although Virginia Tech shooter Seung Hui Cho was “clearly a sociopath,” sociopaths also founded Virginia and have been in charge ever since. In a grotesque sense, Cho was simply acting like an American.

Are You A Hip-Hop Apologist?
by Paris
Rappers that abuse and sell out their own people and culture should be held to account, but that’s only part of the picture, says Hip Hop artist Paris. If huge media corporations stopped demanding anti-social lyrics, “gangstas would stop being gangstas and misogynists would stop being misogynists at the drop of a dime .” Don’t look to the music industry – the people that created the problem – for remediation. Meanwhile, the commercial rap genre is imploding, the result of pollutants cultivated by powerful forces from outside the culture.

The Heart of Whiteness: Racism, Wealth and IQ
by Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The core imperative of those who control U.S. policy is “the protection of White Supremacy Super-Nationalism, or Empire.” Control of global energy resources and such are merely elements of a larger crusade that operates “ at the level of the central nervous system, subconscious and unconscious.” U.S. alliances are based on a brotherhood of “Pan-Whiteness” – “a bond that expresses itself in a tribal level of identification.” The rest of the planet and its peoples are just “Injun country.”

The GOP's Ohio Cyber Election Hit Squad
by Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis
Developing information shows the 2004 Ohio presidential election results were tabulated and filtered through a network of companies “created, owned and operated” by the GOP’s political wing, “including White House counselor Karl Rove.” Apparently, results could be flipped and otherwise manipulated at will, and then released to the public by the same gang. No hacking was necessary to rig the election – the voting data were in the hands of the thieves from beginning to end.

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