Black Agenda Radio 07.19.21

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary andanalysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-hostGlen Ford. Coming up: The President of South Africa maintains that the recent riots thatfollowed the arrest former president Jacob Zuma were actually part of an insurrectionagainst the state. And, some things seldom change when the two parties switch placesin the United States. President Joe Biden is just as hostile to China and Cuba as DonaldTrump was.But first -- Broward County College in south Florida recently hosted a discussion aboutthe turmoil in Haiti, where the president was assassinated by a mercenary force fromColombia. All the participants in the Browder College talk were Haitian Americans –among them, professor Reginald Darbonne and author and activist Pascal Robert, whoemphasizes that class is an important part of Haiti’s historical dynamic.

That was author and activist Pascal Robert, speaking at Broward College,in South Florida.

The continuity of US foreign policy, even as the Democrats and Republicans tradeplaces in the White House, is quite amazing. Although Democrats portrayed PresidentDonald Trump as representing everything they opposed, when Joe Biden took control ofthe Oval Office he left Trump’s moves against China and Cuba intact, virtuallyunchanged. That subject was explored by Sean Blackmon, of Sputnik Radio, in aninterview with Netfa Freeman, of the Black Alliance for Peace.

That was Netfa Freeman, of the Black Alliance for Peace, on SputnikRadio with Sean Blackmon and  Jacqueline Luqman.

When former South African President Jacob Zuma was arrested on corruption charges,housands of his followers rioted and looted in two African Provinces, last week.President Cyril Ramaphosa claimed the disturbances amounted to an attemptedinsurrection against the state. To dig deeper into this story, VAV Radio called oAbayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Detroit-based Pan African News Wire.