I spent a year in Korea, as a member of the US military occupation force. I understand how racism is intertwined with occupation.

The Civil War saw at least 28,000 Black soldiers from New Orleans fighting on the Union Side, the highest percentage of any Southern state.

The revolt also established some new heroes of the people. There was masked man known only as Subcomandante Marcos, a tall, eloquent leader with a full knowledge of the history of oppression and colonization.

These are songs to restore our Constitutional Democracy.

Will there ever be peace as long as the US is fighting wars abroad? Will millions more have to die before the American people end the empire?

Since World War II, our catastrophic wars abroad have been waged against darker skinned victims.

By every measure we have of employment, housing, healthcare, education, family wealth, and criminal justice, our Black population is still being held back by racism and discrimination.

For Gaza, we supply the bombs that get dropped, we hide the carnage that results, and we bribe our Congress into supporting the mass killings.

The genocide of Jews during the WW II is now used to cover up the current genocide being waged against the Palestinian people

All US workers face that grim reality today, with billionaires openly bribing Congress, and worker rights at an all time low. We even have a Gilded Age president, who is making a fortune cutting all benefits for millions of poor workers in America.