May 13, 2020 My Mindspray Sorry for the interruption, just wrapped up a session with Jihad Hassan Muhammad of the Final Call for an upcoming piece about disparities in the criminalization of COVID-19. Link soon!

Sorry for the interruption, just wrapped up a session with Jihad Hassan Muhammad of the Final Call for an upcoming piece about disparities in the criminalization of COVID-19. Link soon!

Previous Post These NAACP negros,<br><br>”For a minute there, it looked like we were all in this together. And then we weren’t.<br><br>From embracing stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of Covid-19, we’ve come to see armed protesters storm state capitols to end the lockdown. Why has the attitude toward the pandemic crisis shifted so greatly?<br>Data emerged that, for the first time, specified infection and death rates by race — and the face of the pandemic changed. It became Black. And the fragile sense of social solidarity that was keeping millions of Americans at home to protect themselves and each other began to crumble. <br>Call it white flight.”<br><br>No, call it black delusion, ignoring the lessons of our ancestors and chasing the illusion of inclusion.

Next Post The response to black resistance has always been swift and heavy handed. And no, there can be no healing without (or before) accountability and restitution. <br><br>”“Wilson Goode for me has always been the boogeyman,” Mike Africa Jr said. “After some meetings with him I came out literally vomiting. He’s the face of the bomb that killed my family, the man who said after the bomb was dropped that if he had to, he would do it again. So to sit in a room with him, even decades later, was gut-wrenching.”<br><br>Mike Africa Jr said he disliked the phrase “reconciliation”, preferring “restorative justice”. The initial demand from Move was to have all the remaining seven members of the Move 9 who had been incarcerated after the 1978 siege released – an ambition fulfilled in February.<br><br>Now Mike Africa wants to see the release of an associate of Move, the former Black Panther member Mumia Abu-Jamal who has been incarcerated since 1981 for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. Africa also wants to see some form of reprimand for those who ordered and participated in the 1985 bombing.”

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