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Friday, October 29th 8:00PM Eastern/ 5:00PM Pacific

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly forum on Neutralizing Workplace Racism. The Covid-19 disruptions continue to roil the workplace worldwide. Even the billion dollar international NBA conglomerate is being affected. Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving still refuses to be vaccinated and has not been permitted to lace up for his team. A rowdy crowd of supporters protested outside a Nets' home game this week, where some supporters burst through barricades in front of the Barclays Center. Although Irving's turmoil is not equivalent to Muhammad Ali in anyway, he and thousands in the U.S. are facing consequences for not accepting the jab. While Irving receives millions to remain away from his co-workers and teammates, thousands of regular workers have been fired for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine. This has disrupted staffing in numerous fields across the "country." Speaking of the U.S., President Joe Biden's ballyhooed infrastructure plan has been pilloried and whittled to the nub. Paid family leave was the latest retraction from Biden's ailing plan.

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BTR News - Seven of the twelve jurors who sat on the Derek Chauvin trial are speaking out about some of the behind-the-scenes jury deliberations. 

On May 25, 2020, on a street in front of a convenience store, George Floyd would be murdered on video by cops in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Multiple videos taken by eyewitnesses were uploaded to the internet and circulated widely, sparking a renewed focus on police violence in the United States. The videos compelled more people to go out into the streets to demand justice for Floyd and demand an end to the brutalization and killing of US citizens by US law enforcement.

Derek Chauvin, the now-convicted murderer, was the first of four officers to go on trial for charges related to Mr. Floyd’s killing. Chavin was facing three charges. unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter during his trial back in April of 2021. 

The seven jurors appearing on Don Lemon Tonight revealed that all jurors were in agreement that Chauvin was guilty on the unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter charges, but the jurors were split on the third-degree murder charge. After some discussion, there was one moment that shifted jurors' opinions from not guilty to guilty according to the jurors on Don Lemon’s show.

Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for his part in the killing of George Floyd. The video of the killing caused empathic reactions around the world as people signaled solidarity with the protestors and activists seeking justice for George Floyd.

Many who saw the images of Chauvin nonchalantly kneeling Floyd’s neck 9 minutes and 29 seconds while the other three officers knelt on his back and legs, were disturbed by the behavior of officers showing no empathy as a human being begged for his life calling out for his dead mother with his final breaths.

The murder sparked calls within Minneapolis to reduce the city’s number of cops and to reimagine public safety under the lens of public health and not deploy armed officers to answer mental health calls to reduce unnecessary fatalities that impact the victim, the victim’s families, the officers, and their families and the wider community. An initiative was put forth to voters called Ballot proposal No. 2. The proposal asks voters whether the city charter should be amended to remove its requirement that the city has a police department with a minimum staffing level and if passed would allow the city officials to reimagine policing the community’s elected representatives.

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Thursday, October 28th 8:00PM Eastern/ 5:00PM Pacific

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the fourth study session on Ernest Tidyman's 1970 novel, SHAFT. Tidyman is a White man. He forged a distinguished journalism career working for The New York Times and Ohio's The Plain Dealer. In the midst of the so called Civil Rights Movement and the unrest of the 1960's, Tidyman decided to concoct a narrative around a black private detective named John SHAFT. This relatively short book sparked fifty years of trashy films and a television program, and mightily influenced the thoughts, speech, action, emotions, and wardrobe of generations of black people. Gus has yet to hear of any black people (including Neely Fuller Jr.) who were aware that the SHAFT franchise is the spawn of a White Man. During the third session, Tidyman has White enforcement officials describe the White mafia killing of several black males. They remark that this had to be the work of a White man because black people are not great thinkers. Repeatedly, Tidyman describes Ben Buford, the only character in the book attempting to counter racism, as some type of insect (non-human). At one point, Ben Buford, SHAFT and Knox Parsons have a brawl over the details of the kidnapping. Tidyman has Buford label SHAFT as a "faggot cocksucker." The homoeroticism of the text continues, when Tidyman has a pair of White gangbangers gawk and fantasize about having anti-sex with SHAFT and/or viewing SHAFT engaged in sexual activity.

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Deathrow inmate’s clemency hearing delayed

A clemency hearing for Oklahoma death row inmate Julius Jones scheduled for Tuesday has been delayed for a week while his legal challenge is pending in federal court. Jones maintains his innocence and says he was set up by a former friend who was the prosecution’s main witness against him. However, during his trial, a juror was reported after his trial for racial bias.

MSNBC’s Ari Melber talks about the case.

Additionally, for Jones, he and five other death row inmates are seeking to be reinstated into a federal lawsuit, challenging Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol. A federal district judge on Monday rejected the inmates’ request, and their attorneys immediately appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

According to Wisconsin Judge, Victims of Shooting Are Rioters and Looters

Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder says, victims can not be called victims but can be called rioters, arsonists, and looters in the recent pre-trial hearing of alleged Kyle Rittenhouse.

On August 25, 2020, amid the Kenosha unrest that had been preceded by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse, a then 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, was driven to Kenosha by his mother where he shot and killed two people and wounded another during multiple confrontations at two locations.

Rittenhouse’s defense attorney argued the shootings should be weighed against the wider context of what was happening that night. "All of that lawlessness, all of the facts and circumstances surrounding what is going on, is relevant in terms of Kyle Rittenhouse's conduct. I think it's impossible to say that it's not."

The three men shot by Rittenhouse have never been charged with any crime related to the protests against police brutality that occurred on the night of August 25, 2020, nor has any evidence surfaced to suggest that they had. It is as if the Judge wants to try the victims in his court and not the person tried with murdered and attempted murder among other criminal charges.

Thomas Binger, the prosecutor, argued Monday that any behavior Rosenbaum, Huber or Grosskreutz may have participated in that night could lead the jury to believe they were arsonists, rioters or looters wasn't witnessed by Rittenhouse and shouldn't be part of his defense.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger argued the judge was setting up a "double standard" due to his longstanding rule of not allowing prosecutors to refer to people as "victims" at trial.

"If I were to count the number of times that you've admonished me not to call someone a victim during a trial, it would be in the thousands," Binger said.

"The word 'victim' is a loaded, loaded word. And I think 'alleged victim' is a cousin to it," Judge Schroeder said.

But Binger disagreed, telling the judge, "I think it's the exact same issue. The terms that I'm identifying here, such as 'rioters,' 'looters,' 'arsonists,' are as loaded, if not more loaded, than the term 'victim.'

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Talking Faith is about teaching listeners how to use their faith in their daily walk, in their conversations so that they will learn to see their faith work for them not against them. Our podcast is a tool to teach Christians to decipher between false teachers and the Godly teachers of God’s Word.

The podcast is hosted by Dr. Ellis O Henderson who is a Christian, Pastor, Father, Son, and servant leader of the remnant with a desire to serve God and bring forth heaven on earth. Utilizing his unique teaching gift, Dr. Henderson shines a light on darkness for the sake of clarity. He has been fortunate to endure and overcome insurmountable odds to proclaim his Christian faith. He has endured childhood trauma, addictions, abuse, and divorce.

In this podcast, Dr. Henderson talks with Christians about how they learned to develop faith. What was the outcome of their faith journey? If you feel weak in your faith or have doubts about your faith effort, tune in and be encouraged to trust God and join a dialogue about the Christian faith.

by Scotty Reid

The research company Statista reported recently that the 2020 revenue for the global athletic shoe market or sneaker market was valued at around 70 billion U.S. dollars annually, and it reports that the market is forecast to reach a value of 102 billion U.S. dollars in four years.

Sneakers as they’re popularly known in the United States became a fashion staple in the Black community around the late 1970s and 1980s owing to their growing popularity in part to the early interactions of hip-hop culture. Not only did break dancers, an athletic form of dancing that included elements of gymnastics, need comfortable shoes to perform but matching the shoes to an outfit, a fashion statement was just as important to the performers.

Then in the mid-80s came along one Michael Jeffrey Jordan, who had one of the best NBA careers of his era, and became arguably the first global influencer long before the age of social media. Nike’s media campaigns really leaned into a proud Black Identity without overtly showing their hand, by telling everyone to Just Be Like Mike, a Black man in a white-dominated society!

It helped that Jordan the man was not one to wade into the social-political sphere once quipping that “republicans buy shoes too” when asked to endorse the Black Democrat Harvey Gannt, the former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, who hope to defeat the lifelong white supremacist, Senator Jesse Helms. Another bonus for Nike was that Jordan the man would likely not be raising any issues with Nike’s labor practices let alone concern himself about where the Jordans sneakers were manufactured.

Nike’s iconic commercials, one starring, directed, and produced by famed Black film director Spike Lee at the peak of his popularity, somewhat of a Black cultural icon and a basketball fan in his own right, the media campaigns made Nike’s Jordans brand its signature shoe driving the majority of its sales and thus profits.

Sneakers are still a foundation of Black fashion trends, so it’s logical that Black consumers are still the foundation of sneaker purchases thus driving the profits for the top global corporate brands like Adidas, Converse, Nike, and Rebook. However, most if not all manufacturing is done in countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, and China.

The dollars the Black consumer market spends on these products often do not turn into employment opportunities for the communities where these Black consumers are geographically located. Corporations have long since outsourced manufacturing jobs where the corporations contract with factories in foreign countries where employers pay workers what would be considered slave wages in the US, wages well below the ridiculously low US Federal minimum wage.

Enter the Covid 19 Pandemic!

The coronavirus pandemic is having an impact despite the 2020 sales, COVID 19 did not arrive in the United States until the last two months of the calendar year. CNBC reports the sneaker giant Nike, the main supplier to Dick’s Sporting Goods, a national retailer, is having supply chain issues. The same issues are also affecting other industries that rely on outsourced manufacturing.

Despite the upward global trend in the demand for sneakers, with projected sales crossing the 100 Billion per year mark, Nike lowered its internal fiscal 2022 outlook due to the disruption in the global supply chain. Longer transit times, labor shortages abroad with prolonged production shutdowns in Vietnam, a major player in the manufacturing of Nike brand shoes.

This show will give important current and historical information about the Reparations movement that the average person may or may not know. We want people of Afrikan descent to have basic information as well as not perpetuate misinformation about the Reparations movement to be more effective supporters of the reparations movement.

Abolition Today - On October 20th, 2021, State Representative Dianne Hart, T.O.P.S. The Ordinary People's Society Southeastern Region Friends and Pas Kenny Sharpton Glasgow held a press conference in Florida's capitol announcing the introduction of joint resolutions to amend the state constitution and introduce anti-slavery legislation.

They will be joining the Abolish Slavery National Network as the 9th state to introduce such legislation since 2020. To date, 4 states have abolished constitutional slavery without exception and 21 additional states are organizing to get similar legislation introduced.

Finally, a joint resolution to introduce a new federal amendment to counter the pro-slavery language of the 13th amendment is gaining bipartisan support in the house and senate.

We'll discuss that and much more. And of course, we'll include amazing music and poetry, then culminate the program by bringing the ancestor's words back to life for a new generation of slavery abolitionists.

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott, Sunday 10/24/21 at 7:00 PM our guest was Activist, Organizer, director of the Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizations (BANCO), Rev. Edward Pinkney. Is what’s going on in Benton Harbor, Flint and other urban area’s with predominately African Americans isolated incidents? How come this is not front page news among our people in this country? We will hear from Rev. Pinkney about what’s going on there, and what he is trying to do to aid our people.

 

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro.Elliott, Friday 10/22/2021 at 8:00 PM “Freestyle Friday Open Forum”. With several defeats of proposed legislation targeting the Black community, what should be our next move? Keep pulling levers for either party or come forward with a better solution for our future generations? this was part of the discussion in Open Forum conversation.