Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid

Tune in as I discuss some of the recent news headlines. Topics: Dead Children in ICE Custody, Iraqis demanding US Troops Leave, New Syria Coalition To Defeat ISIS Emerging. These topics and possibly more tonight on BTR News hosted by Scotty Reid. Program Notes.

Scotty Reid is the founder of the non-profit media organization Black Talk Media Project which has been around for over 10 years. He is the host and producer of the BTR News podcast and New Abolitionists Radio which he has co-hosted for several years. He is a free-thinking Christian prison slavery abolitionist who can't be put in a box politically, socially or otherwise. He is the father of three and a US Army Veteran of the Gulf War. He has been producing news talk programming since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics over the years. His favorite movie line is from Forrest Gump, "Are you stupid or something?".

You Can Support BTR News & Black Talk Radio Network Today By Making A Financial Contribution To The Non-Profit Black Talk Media Project. Thank You For Your Contribution In Support Of Independent Media Click Here To Donate!

Checks or M/Os made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065

Tune in as I discuss some of the recent news headlines. Topics: Dead Children in ICE Custody, Iraqis demanding US Troops Leave, New Syria Coalition To Defeat ISIS Emerging. These topics and possibly more tonight on BTR News hosted by Scotty Reid. Program Notes.

Scotty Reid is the founder of the non-profit media organization Black Talk Media Project which has been around for over 10 years. He is the host and producer of the BTR News podcast and New Abolitionists Radio which he has co-hosted for several years. He is a free-thinking Christian prison slavery abolitionist who can't be put in a box politically, socially or otherwise. He is the father of three and a US Army Veteran of the Gulf War. He has been producing news talk programming since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics over the years. His favorite movie line is from Forrest Gump, "Are you stupid or something?".

You Can Support BTR News & Black Talk Radio Network Today By Making A Financial Contribution To The Non-Profit Black Talk Media Project. Thank You For Your Contribution In Support Of Independent Media Click Here To Donate!

Checks or M/Os made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065

Tune in as I discuss some of the recent news headlines. Topics: Dead Children in ICE Custody, Iraqis demanding US Troops Leave, New Syria Coalition To Defeat ISIS Emerging. These topics and possibly more tonight on BTR News hosted by Scotty Reid. Program Notes.

Scotty Reid is the founder of the non-profit media organization Black Talk Media Project which has been around for over 10 years. He is the host and producer of the BTR News podcast and New Abolitionists Radio which he has co-hosted for several years. He is a free-thinking Christian prison slavery abolitionist who can't be put in a box politically, socially or otherwise. He is the father of three and a US Army Veteran of the Gulf War. He has been producing news talk programming since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics over the years. His favorite movie line is from Forrest Gump, "Are you stupid or something?".

You Can Support BTR News & Black Talk Radio Network Today By Making A Financial Contribution To The Non-Profit Black Talk Media Project. Thank You For Your Contribution In Support Of Independent Media Click Here To Donate!

Checks or M/Os made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065

Tune in as I discuss some of the recent news headlines. Topics: Dead Children in ICE Custody, Iraqis demanding US Troops Leave, New Syria Coalition To Defeat ISIS Emerging. These topics and possibly more tonight on BTR News hosted by Scotty Reid. Program Notes.

Scotty Reid is the founder of the non-profit media organization Black Talk Media Project which has been around for over 10 years. He is the host and producer of the BTR News podcast and New Abolitionists Radio which he has co-hosted for several years. He is a free-thinking Christian prison slavery abolitionist who can't be put in a box politically, socially or otherwise. He is the father of three and a US Army Veteran of the Gulf War. He has been producing news talk programming since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics over the years. His favorite movie line is from Forrest Gump, "Are you stupid or something?".

You Can Support BTR News & Black Talk Radio Network Today By Making A Financial Contribution To The Non-Profit Black Talk Media Project. Thank You For Your Contribution In Support Of Independent Media Click Here To Donate!

Checks or M/Os made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065

Tune in as I discuss some of the recent news headlines. Topics: Dead Children in ICE Custody, Iraqis demanding US Troops Leave, New Syria Coalition To Defeat ISIS Emerging. These topics and possibly more tonight on BTR News hosted by Scotty Reid. Program Notes.

Scotty Reid is the founder of the non-profit media organization Black Talk Media Project which has been around for over 10 years. He is the host and producer of the BTR News podcast and New Abolitionists Radio which he has co-hosted for several years. He is a free-thinking Christian prison slavery abolitionist who can't be put in a box politically, socially or otherwise. He is the father of three and a US Army Veteran of the Gulf War. He has been producing news talk programming since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics over the years. His favorite movie line is from Forrest Gump, "Are you stupid or something?".

You Can Support BTR News & Black Talk Radio Network Today By Making A Financial Contribution To The Non-Profit Black Talk Media Project. Thank You For Your Contribution In Support Of Independent Media Click Here To Donate!

Checks or M/Os made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065

Tune in as I discuss some of the recent news headlines. Topics: Dead Children in ICE Custody, Iraqis demanding US Troops Leave, New Syria Coalition To Defeat ISIS Emerging. These topics and possibly more tonight on BTR News hosted by Scotty Reid. Program Notes.

Scotty Reid is the founder of the non-profit media organization Black Talk Media Project which has been around for over 10 years. He is the host and producer of the BTR News podcast and New Abolitionists Radio which he has co-hosted for several years. He is a free-thinking Christian prison slavery abolitionist who can't be put in a box politically, socially or otherwise. He is the father of three and a US Army Veteran of the Gulf War. He has been producing news talk programming since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics over the years. His favorite movie line is from Forrest Gump, "Are you stupid or something?".

You Can Support BTR News & Black Talk Radio Network Today By Making A Financial Contribution To The Non-Profit Black Talk Media Project. Thank You For Your Contribution In Support Of Independent Media Click Here To Donate!

Checks or M/Os made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065

Tune in as I discuss some of the recent news headlines. Topics: Dead Children in ICE Custody, Iraqis demanding US Troops Leave, New Syria Coalition To Defeat ISIS Emerging. These topics and possibly more tonight on BTR News hosted by Scotty Reid. Program Notes.

Scotty Reid is the founder of the non-profit media organization Black Talk Media Project which has been around for over 10 years. He is the host and producer of the BTR News podcast and New Abolitionists Radio which he has co-hosted for several years. He is a free-thinking Christian prison slavery abolitionist who can't be put in a box politically, socially or otherwise. He is the father of three and a US Army Veteran of the Gulf War. He has been producing news talk programming since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics over the years. His favorite movie line is from Forrest Gump, "Are you stupid or something?".

You Can Support BTR News & Black Talk Radio Network Today By Making A Financial Contribution To The Non-Profit Black Talk Media Project. Thank You For Your Contribution In Support Of Independent Media Click Here To Donate!

Checks or M/Os made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065

Tune in as I discuss some of the recent news headlines. Topics: Dead Children in ICE Custody, Iraqis demanding US Troops Leave, New Syria Coalition To Defeat ISIS Emerging. These topics and possibly more tonight on BTR News hosted by Scotty Reid. Program Notes.

Scotty Reid is the founder of the non-profit media organization Black Talk Media Project which has been around for over 10 years. He is the host and producer of the BTR News podcast and New Abolitionists Radio which he has co-hosted for several years. He is a free-thinking Christian prison slavery abolitionist who can't be put in a box politically, socially or otherwise. He is the father of three and a US Army Veteran of the Gulf War. He has been producing news talk programming since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics over the years. His favorite movie line is from Forrest Gump, "Are you stupid or something?".

You Can Support BTR News & Black Talk Radio Network Today By Making A Financial Contribution To The Non-Profit Black Talk Media Project. Thank You For Your Contribution In Support Of Independent Media Click Here To Donate!

Checks or M/Os made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065

BTR News - Using children as political props in which to shame or embarrass a nation or leaders of that nation is nothing new in US politics. Sometimes the concerns raised are legitimate, sometimes they are illegitimate and sometimes it is both.

It should be evident now that just like during the 2016 Presidential race, cable news networks were oversaturating the news cycle with news stories about Donald Trump and a CNN network boss said as much saying Trump was good for ratings and ratings are good in attracting paid advertisement. I suspect the same holds true today as newsfeeds are saturated with Trump coverage, some of it legitimate news coverage and a lot of it seems petty, biased and a waste of digital space.

However, a lot of news coverage about the mistreatment of South and Central American refugees and their children is very legitimate and this commentary should not be construed as an objection to that coverage. What I am questioning is the motivation not just of the news coverage but the political grandstanding by Democrats.

Case in point. Recently two children died of apparent illness while in the custody of immigration officers which has caused the Secretary of Homeland Security to do some explaining about the conditions of detention for refugee children. We have had wall to wall media coverage on the cable news networks about those two unfortunate deaths. However, when the Miami Herald produced an editorial report just last week published details surrounding the murder of a 17-year-old troubled teen who was locked up in Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, it elicited no national coverage. Five staffers at the juvenile lockup were fired in connection with the death of Elord Revolte who was viciously beaten to death by other juvenile detainees allegedly at the behest of guards. "Elord should have gotten immediate medical care. He didn’t. Staffers waited a full day before calling an ambulance to get Elord to a hospital" and "within days, up to 15 young detainees told their attorneys of the practice of inmates being offered honey buns by guards in exchange for hurting or disciplining other detainees."

If you think this is an isolated incident then take a look at the allegations made by a former Texas Department of Justice employee Dominique Mitchell turned whistleblower in March of 2018 who alleged that guards routinely physically abused the children in their custody and care and would withhold food from them. Beto O'Rouke a Texas Representative who failed in his bid to unseat Senator Ted Cruz but is being pushed by establishment Democrats to run for President garnered national media attention in calling for the closure of a Texas immigration facility detaining children citing human rights concern.

The national cable news media did not devote much coverage if at all to these two stories about American children being abused in juvenile detention facilities. Beto O'rouke did not call for the closing of the Texas Department of Justice facility the whistleblower spoke about. This leads me to believe that both the media and Democrats are not as concerned about the mistreatment of children as they would have us to believe. In the seven years that I have been producing New Abolitionists Radio, I can recall a number of stories concerning the mistreatment of children by guards and administrators in juvenile detention facilities. Don't get me started on the abuses seemingly rampant in the foster care system.

All I am suggesting that in addition to the outrage of the mistreatment of refugee children, the same level of outrage if not more should be directed at the abuse of American children by those charged with their care in both the federal and state systems.

In some encouraging news, a bi-partisan coalition of federal legislatures and progressive and conservative groups were able to get Presiden...

BTR News - Using children as political props in which to shame or embarrass a nation or leaders of that nation is nothing new in US politics. Sometimes the concerns raised are legitimate, sometimes they are illegitimate and sometimes it is both.

It should be evident now that just like during the 2016 Presidential race, cable news networks were oversaturating the news cycle with news stories about Donald Trump and a CNN network boss said as much saying Trump was good for ratings and ratings are good in attracting paid advertisement. I suspect the same holds true today as newsfeeds are saturated with Trump coverage, some of it legitimate news coverage and a lot of it seems petty, biased and a waste of digital space.

However, a lot of news coverage about the mistreatment of South and Central American refugees and their children is very legitimate and this commentary should not be construed as an objection to that coverage. What I am questioning is the motivation not just of the news coverage but the political grandstanding by Democrats.

Case in point. Recently two children died of apparent illness while in the custody of immigration officers which has caused the Secretary of Homeland Security to do some explaining about the conditions of detention for refugee children. We have had wall to wall media coverage on the cable news networks about those two unfortunate deaths. However, when the Miami Herald produced an editorial report just last week published details surrounding the murder of a 17-year-old troubled teen who was locked up in Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, it elicited no national coverage. Five staffers at the juvenile lockup were fired in connection with the death of Elord Revolte who was viciously beaten to death by other juvenile detainees allegedly at the behest of guards. "Elord should have gotten immediate medical care. He didn’t. Staffers waited a full day before calling an ambulance to get Elord to a hospital" and "within days, up to 15 young detainees told their attorneys of the practice of inmates being offered honey buns by guards in exchange for hurting or disciplining other detainees."

If you think this is an isolated incident then take a look at the allegations made by a former Texas Department of Justice employee Dominique Mitchell turned whistleblower in March of 2018 who alleged that guards routinely physically abused the children in their custody and care and would withhold food from them. Beto O'Rouke a Texas Representative who failed in his bid to unseat Senator Ted Cruz but is being pushed by establishment Democrats to run for President garnered national media attention in calling for the closure of a Texas immigration facility detaining children citing human rights concern.

The national cable news media did not devote much coverage if at all to these two stories about American children being abused in juvenile detention facilities. Beto O'rouke did not call for the closing of the Texas Department of Justice facility the whistleblower spoke about. This leads me to believe that both the media and Democrats are not as concerned about the mistreatment of children as they would have us to believe. In the seven years that I have been producing New Abolitionists Radio, I can recall a number of stories concerning the mistreatment of children by guards and administrators in juvenile detention facilities. Don't get me started on the abuses seemingly rampant in the foster care system.

All I am suggesting that in addition to the outrage of the mistreatment of refugee children, the same level of outrage if not more should be directed at the abuse of American children by those charged with their care in both the federal and state systems.

In some encouraging news, a bi-partisan coalition of federal legislatures and progressive and conservative groups were able to get Presiden...