Abolition Today

The DOJ has announced it will be investigating police in Minneapolis, MN and Saint Louis, MO.

Just like they investigated Ferguson, Alabama, and Ohio.

Let’s look at the DOJ mission statement.;

“To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.”

In each case they have found unconstitutional patterns and practices where nothing has come from it. If you can’t enforce the constitution what good are you? Paper Tigers.

We’ll also listen to a discussion from Dr Joy James. Professor of the Humanities and professor of political science. During Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Contemporary Political Struggle: abolition x communism, Dr James really stood up for us in the slavery abolitionist movement. You’ve got to hear this smack-down of academia and academics regarding abolition as a philosophy versus literal slavery abolition. Paper Tigers.

We've got updates on the Abolish Slavery National Network and of course we’ve got Abolitionist music, poetry and we’ll bring the ancestors words to life with our Bridging The Gap segment.

Abolition today is available on all your favorite podcast platforms and is simulcast on the Black Talk Radio Network.

In this episode we'll discuss The Roots and Fruits of The Problem.

Half the country says it's black people and #BLM.

That leftist liberals somehow control black people like puppets. That the real problem is black racists who practice reverse racism against innocent whites and conveniently play race cards about problems that doesn't really exist.

Racism. Slavery. Genocide. Oppression.

They say we should be more worried about black on black crime.

That we should learn to comply with authority and stop resisting.

They say we are the problem and many of us believe it. 

We're going to show you exactly where the roots of the problem lie.

Bring pen and paper. Class is about to begin. 

We've got some major poetic jewels to drop for #nationalpoetrymonth2021 and as always, we bring the ancestors words and wisdom back to life in our Bridging The Gap Segment.

Ain't no party like a slave-catcher party because a slave-catcher party don't stop.

This week we examine generational trauma. What causes it?

How does it manifest? Who inflicts it and why? 

We'll also be joined by Rhode Island Poet laureate nominee and playwright Christoper "TheNcredibull" Johnson.

Christopher Johnson is the recipient of the 2018 Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship for Playwriting. He is also a finalist for the 2018 McColl Johnson Fellowship and an award-winning Slam Poet.

We'll go over the historic events surrounding the announcement of HB196 (The Slavery Abolition Bill) in Louisiana.

Introduced by Representative Edmond Jordan in collaboration with Decarcerate Louisiana, The ACLU, The NAACP, The ASNN, the PCAC and many more known as The Louisiana Coalition to Abolish Slavery. 

This historic legislation has recieved national and international attention. We'll explain how and why.

We may also get a call or two from #DecarcerateLouisiana organizers.

Joining the discussion during #NationalPoetryMonth will be Spoken word artist, globe trotter, and navy veteran, Wayne Breeze Watson.

Of course we've got music, poetry, and the words of the ancestors brought to life in our Bridging The Gap Segment.

It's Easter Sunday and the first week of Poetry Month.

We've got Poets, Preachers and Teachers who will break down slavery in Black and White.

- The story of Ota Benga

- The History of White People in America

- How America Invented Race

- How America Made Skin Color Power

- The Contemporary Conflation of Slavery in the Bible

- For-profit prison as an economic development program

With Spoken Word Poetry from Maya Angelou, Oscar Brown jr,

Abolitionist Frances Ellen Harper and Fredrick Douglass.

All that and much more

Sincere Ignorance and Conscientious Stupidity S2-E13

The most dangerous thing in the world

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Tonight we directly address the pro-slavery anti-black arguments. The complete denial, the logical fallacies, the stereotypes and tropes. The arguments of the past and the present because they are one and the same.

Join Max and Yusuf as we break it all down to expose the insanity of the slaver class and their puppet minions.

Thus far I had outwitted him, and I triumphed over it. Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.

Harriet Ann Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Senate committee testimonies in multiple states on bills to end slavery have happened over the past few weeks. Including personal testimony by the hosts of Abolition Today in support of NJ ACR145. We'll discuss all that and more.

We'll also be joined in discussion by Abolish Slavery National Network Co-director of states Dennis Febo and 2020 presidential candidate, the Hood Candidate Andy Williams.

Abolition Today is available on all major podcast platforms and is simulcast on the Black Talk Radio Network.

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man.

― Frederick Douglass, - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

It's our 1st anniversary! Just past Harriet Tubman Day 2021 where she was inducted into the Military Hall of Fame, March 10th, on this episode we are joined for a discussion on modern legal slavery with Ernestine (Tina) Martin Wyatt. GGG Grandniece of Harriet Ross Tubman.

We've got great music and poetry. News and information on the slavery abolitionist movement, and as always we honor our ancestors and bring their words back to life with our Bridging The Gap Segment.