In the news….
Imagine your mother or grandmother is standing in her home going about her business when without warning she falls to the floor from a fatal gunshot wound. Someone obviously is responsible for killing a “law abiding citizen” just standing in her home.
The media company that paid for the production of the Oscar nominated documentary “13th” directed by Ava Duvernay recently took out a full-page ad in the New York Times highlighting the glaring fact that slavery is still operating as an institution enforced through the loophole that allows slavery and involuntary servitude to exist if the person has been “duly convicted of a crime”.
The Netflix ad in the New York Times is titled “Plantation to Prison” and its opening monologue states, “The 13th Amendment officially abolished slavery in 1865. Yet involuntary servitude persists 152 years later, due to a loophole that shifted the practice to U.S. prisons.”
Speaking of Netflix, the online streaming media company is taking heat from white people who are complaining that a soon to be released film on their platform is racist towards white people.
The Real News Network, an independent outlet based in Baltimore published an interview with activist David Sheen who is Israeli and resides in Israel. Part of the interview focused on the rape culture and the rape culture that exists in Israel and the Palestinian lands.
Earlier this week, BTR News put out a podcast with Paul Porter of RapRehab and Industry Ears concerning a white conservative AM talker using the word “nigger” on the FCC licensed broadcast. Continue Reading...