Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid

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...

Donald Trump exposed himself and others to be domestic enemies of the US Constitution. Yes, the very Constitution that Trump and other members of his cabinet swore an oath to uphold and defend but would be undermined if they had their way.

The US Constitution is the highest law of the land on which every law passed in the United States must meet constitutional muster determined by the US federal courts.

President Trump has been part of the birther movement that emerged during the candidacy of former President Barack Obama circulating propaganda that he wasn't a US citizen despite not only being born in Hawaii but to a mother who was a US Citizen. Racism was at the root of the conspiracy theories concerning Barack Obama just as racism is the root of Trump's proposed executive order to circumvent the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution and end birthright citizenship. We know racism is the motivating factor because Trump himself has called for more "white immigrants" from countries like Norway as opposed to non-white immigrants from "s-hole" countries that happen to all have non-white populations.

In support of this treasonous notion that Trump can circumvent the US Consitution, conservatives are floating around the doctrine of "intent". They are arguing that the authors who wrote and the legislators who ratified the 14th Amendment intended to only grant citizenship to the victims of slavery and their future descendants aka African Americans. If that is their argument and they truly believe in it, then they should be more than willing to give up their US citizenship granted by the 14th Amendment to their immigrant parents like in Trump's case. Anyone granted citizenship by way of naturalization should be stripped of it if their ancestors came from Europe to the United States after the American Civil War which would be well over half of the current citizens classified as white.

If Trump does issue the proposed executive order, one could argue he has provided clear evidence that he should be impeached for violating his oath of office. This has been Scotty Reid with a Black Talk Radio Commentary, check out more podcasts at Black Talk Radio Network dot com.

Donald Trump exposed himself and others to be domestic enemies of the US Constitution. Yes, the very Constitution that Trump and other members of his cabinet swore an oath to uphold and defend but would be undermined if they had their way.

The US Constitution is the highest law of the land on which every law passed in the United States must meet constitutional muster determined by the US federal courts.

President Trump has been part of the birther movement that emerged during the candidacy of former President Barack Obama circulating propaganda that he wasn't a US citizen despite not only being born in Hawaii but to a mother who was a US Citizen. Racism was at the root of the conspiracy theories concerning Barack Obama just as racism is the root of Trump's proposed executive order to circumvent the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution and end birthright citizenship. We know racism is the motivating factor because Trump himself has called for more "white immigrants" from countries like Norway as opposed to non-white immigrants from "s-hole" countries that happen to all have non-white populations.

In support of this treasonous notion that Trump can circumvent the US Consitution, conservatives are floating around the doctrine of "intent". They are arguing that the authors who wrote and the legislators who ratified the 14th Amendment intended to only grant citizenship to the victims of slavery and their future descendants aka African Americans. If that is their argument and they truly believe in it, then they should be more than willing to give up their US citizenship granted by the 14th Amendment to their immigrant parents like in Trump's case. Anyone granted citizenship by way of naturalization should be stripped of it if their ancestors came from Europe to the United States after the American Civil War which would be well over half of the current citizens classified as white.

If Trump does issue the proposed executive order, one could argue he has provided clear evidence that he should be impeached for violating his oath of office. This has been Scotty Reid with a Black Talk Radio Commentary, check out more podcasts at Black Talk Radio Network dot com.

Donald Trump exposed himself and others to be domestic enemies of the US Constitution. Yes, the very Constitution that Trump and other members of his cabinet swore an oath to uphold and defend but would be undermined if they had their way.

The US Constitution is the highest law of the land on which every law passed in the United States must meet constitutional muster determined by the US federal courts.

President Trump has been part of the birther movement that emerged during the candidacy of former President Barack Obama circulating propaganda that he wasn't a US citizen despite not only being born in Hawaii but to a mother who was a US Citizen. Racism was at the root of the conspiracy theories concerning Barack Obama just as racism is the root of Trump's proposed executive order to circumvent the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution and end birthright citizenship. We know racism is the motivating factor because Trump himself has called for more "white immigrants" from countries like Norway as opposed to non-white immigrants from "s-hole" countries that happen to all have non-white populations.

In support of this treasonous notion that Trump can circumvent the US Consitution, conservatives are floating around the doctrine of "intent". They are arguing that the authors who wrote and the legislators who ratified the 14th Amendment intended to only grant citizenship to the victims of slavery and their future descendants aka African Americans. If that is their argument and they truly believe in it, then they should be more than willing to give up their US citizenship granted by the 14th Amendment to their immigrant parents like in Trump's case. Anyone granted citizenship by way of naturalization should be stripped of it if their ancestors came from Europe to the United States after the American Civil War which would be well over half of the current citizens classified as white.

If Trump does issue the proposed executive order, one could argue he has provided clear evidence that he should be impeached for violating his oath of office. This has been Scotty Reid with a Black Talk Radio Commentary, check out more podcasts at Black Talk Radio Network dot com.

Donald Trump exposed himself and others to be domestic enemies of the US Constitution. Yes, the very Constitution that Trump and other members of his cabinet swore an oath to uphold and defend but would be undermined if they had their way.

The US Constitution is the highest law of the land on which every law passed in the United States must meet constitutional muster determined by the US federal courts.

President Trump has been part of the birther movement that emerged during the candidacy of former President Barack Obama circulating propaganda that he wasn't a US citizen despite not only being born in Hawaii but to a mother who was a US Citizen. Racism was at the root of the conspiracy theories concerning Barack Obama just as racism is the root of Trump's proposed executive order to circumvent the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution and end birthright citizenship. We know racism is the motivating factor because Trump himself has called for more "white immigrants" from countries like Norway as opposed to non-white immigrants from "s-hole" countries that happen to all have non-white populations.

In support of this treasonous notion that Trump can circumvent the US Consitution, conservatives are floating around the doctrine of "intent". They are arguing that the authors who wrote and the legislators who ratified the 14th Amendment intended to only grant citizenship to the victims of slavery and their future descendants aka African Americans. If that is their argument and they truly believe in it, then they should be more than willing to give up their US citizenship granted by the 14th Amendment to their immigrant parents like in Trump's case. Anyone granted citizenship by way of naturalization should be stripped of it if their ancestors came from Europe to the United States after the American Civil War which would be well over half of the current citizens classified as white.

If Trump does issue the proposed executive order, one could argue he has provided clear evidence that he should be impeached for violating his oath of office. This has been Scotty Reid with a Black Talk Radio Commentary, check out more podcasts at Black Talk Radio Network dot com.

In North Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Maya Little was found guilty of defacing the Confederate monument called Silent Sam that until recently stood on its perch on the UNC campus since its racist dedication ceremony in 1913. Little has never denied that she poured red paint and ink on the statue.

Little in the past has pushed the UNC administrators to add a plaque at the base of the statute to give it the proper historical context and its connection to pro-confederacy propaganda that encouraged the mistreatment of Black Americans. She only took action after her request fell on deaf ears.

“I went to Silent Sam. I poured my blood and red ink on the statue,” Little told The News & Observer last spring. “Without that context of what it was built on, which is violence toward black people, it is not a historical object. It is missing its history. It is sanitized.”

Orange County District Court Judge Samantha Cabe found Little guilty of a misdemeanor charge, but the judge did not hand down a sentence or punishment.

Little’s attorney, Scott Holmes, argued that Silent Sam is a form of “hate speech.” and that Little’s actions fell under the law of necessity.

While US citizens and cities across the United States work to remove the pro-slavery symbols of white supremacy, President Trump’s administration has been spending millions since 2017 to provide security for monuments to the enemies of the United States. For a man who says he only likes winners, Trump has gone out of his way to celebrate the losers of the Confederacy and their cause. Trump, the son of immigrants, has no family history connected to the American Civil War and is politicizing the issue as he continues to trafficking in white identity extremism as a way to retain support from what many deem to be a racist base of Confederate sympathizing voters.

In North Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Maya Little was found guilty of defacing the Confederate monument called Silent Sam that until recently stood on its perch on the UNC campus since its racist dedication ceremony in 1913. Little has never denied that she poured red paint and ink on the statue.

Little in the past has pushed the UNC administrators to add a plaque at the base of the statute to give it the proper historical context and its connection to pro-confederacy propaganda that encouraged the mistreatment of Black Americans. She only took action after her request fell on deaf ears.

“I went to Silent Sam. I poured my blood and red ink on the statue,” Little told The News & Observer last spring. “Without that context of what it was built on, which is violence toward black people, it is not a historical object. It is missing its history. It is sanitized.”

Orange County District Court Judge Samantha Cabe found Little guilty of a misdemeanor charge, but the judge did not hand down a sentence or punishment.

Little’s attorney, Scott Holmes, argued that Silent Sam is a form of “hate speech.” and that Little’s actions fell under the law of necessity.

While US citizens and cities across the United States work to remove the pro-slavery symbols of white supremacy, President Trump’s administration has been spending millions since 2017 to provide security for monuments to the enemies of the United States. For a man who says he only likes winners, Trump has gone out of his way to celebrate the losers of the Confederacy and their cause. Trump, the son of immigrants, has no family history connected to the American Civil War and is politicizing the issue as he continues to trafficking in white identity extremism as a way to retain support from what many deem to be a racist base of Confederate sympathizing voters.

In North Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Maya Little was found guilty of defacing the Confederate monument called Silent Sam that until recently stood on its perch on the UNC campus since its racist dedication ceremony in 1913. Little has never denied that she poured red paint and ink on the statue.

Little in the past has pushed the UNC administrators to add a plaque at the base of the statute to give it the proper historical context and its connection to pro-confederacy propaganda that encouraged the mistreatment of Black Americans. She only took action after her request fell on deaf ears.

“I went to Silent Sam. I poured my blood and red ink on the statue,” Little told The News & Observer last spring. “Without that context of what it was built on, which is violence toward black people, it is not a historical object. It is missing its history. It is sanitized.”

Orange County District Court Judge Samantha Cabe found Little guilty of a misdemeanor charge, but the judge did not hand down a sentence or punishment.

Little’s attorney, Scott Holmes, argued that Silent Sam is a form of “hate speech.” and that Little’s actions fell under the law of necessity.

While US citizens and cities across the United States work to remove the pro-slavery symbols of white supremacy, President Trump’s administration has been spending millions since 2017 to provide security for monuments to the enemies of the United States. For a man who says he only likes winners, Trump has gone out of his way to celebrate the losers of the Confederacy and their cause. Trump, the son of immigrants, has no family history connected to the American Civil War and is politicizing the issue as he continues to trafficking in white identity extremism as a way to retain support from what many deem to be a racist base of Confederate sympathizing voters.

In North Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Maya Little was found guilty of defacing the Confederate monument called Silent Sam that until recently stood on its perch on the UNC campus since its racist dedication ceremony in 1913. Little has never denied that she poured red paint and ink on the statue.

Little in the past has pushed the UNC administrators to add a plaque at the base of the statute to give it the proper historical context and its connection to pro-confederacy propaganda that encouraged the mistreatment of Black Americans. She only took action after her request fell on deaf ears.

“I went to Silent Sam. I poured my blood and red ink on the statue,” Little told The News & Observer last spring. “Without that context of what it was built on, which is violence toward black people, it is not a historical object. It is missing its history. It is sanitized.”

Orange County District Court Judge Samantha Cabe found Little guilty of a misdemeanor charge, but the judge did not hand down a sentence or punishment.

Little’s attorney, Scott Holmes, argued that Silent Sam is a form of “hate speech.” and that Little’s actions fell under the law of necessity.

While US citizens and cities across the United States work to remove the pro-slavery symbols of white supremacy, President Trump’s administration has been spending millions since 2017 to provide security for monuments to the enemies of the United States. For a man who says he only likes winners, Trump has gone out of his way to celebrate the losers of the Confederacy and their cause. Trump, the son of immigrants, has no family history connected to the American Civil War and is politicizing the issue as he continues to trafficking in white identity extremism as a way to retain support from what many deem to be a racist base of Confederate sympathizing voters.