Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid

Today is Memorial Day in the USA where most people treat it as just a day off from the job and a chance to do a little traveling perhaps visiting Continue Reading →

Tonight we will be joined by special guest, the legendary radio personality Bob Law to discuss the culture of violence in the USA especially as it relates to its promotion to the Black community through radio stations supported by corporate America. We will also get his opinion on recent comments by musician Wynton Marsalis.

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After we speak with our guests we will open up the lines for an open dialogue on the real legacy of Malcolm X which is very complex and his views varied and changed over the years just prior to his assassination by men who were members of the Nation of Islam and likely also agents of COINTELPRO or simply just religious fanatics who have been remained silent about the plot to kill one of the most influential people in the world during his time.

Tonight we will be joined by special guest, the legendary radio personality Bob Law to discuss the culture of violence in the USA especially as it relates to its promotion Continue Reading →

BTR News - The United States is on a path of destruction that could result in a tremendous loss of life after President Donald Trump skipped out the nuclear treaty with Iran to limit its uranium enrichment production that could be used to produce a nuclear weapon. The other nations part of the treaty include Russia, China, The UK, France, Germany and the European Union and despite Trump's threats against the nations, all have indicated they will continue to honor the treaty thus isolating the United States.

All the nations party to the agreement and the Atomic Watchdog agency have said that Iran is adhering to the agreement but that doesn't matter to the Trump administration citing some secret intelligence from the Israelis who certainly don't have a motive to lie about the activities of its arch-rival Iran. Speaking of Israel, an Israeli official is quoted as saying that they preferred ISIS, a terrorist group active in Syria, defeats the Assad government and threatened to attack Syria and topple its government if Iran retaliates against Israel for blatant attacks on Iranian troops invited into Syria to assist with eliminating ISIS.

Ever since John Bolton became Trump's national security adviser, the notorious chicken-hawk who has acted as an agent of Israel betraying the Bush administration on the issue of a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel, the Trump administration has become even more hostile in its foreign policy. It is clear the Trump administration and Israel are the instigators in this drama that could lead to World War III if Iran is attack and its allies uphold their agreements to assist it in defending itself from Trump and Netanyahu's naked aggression.

Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid is the host of BTR News and New Abolitionists Radio which he co-hosts. He has been hosting and producing news talk radio and podcasting since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics. He is also a freelance writer who focuses on social and political issues from around the world and has been published by various outlets.

BTR News – The United States is on a path of destruction that could result in a tremendous loss of life after President Donald Trump skipped out the nuclear treaty Continue Reading →

Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid is the host of BTR News and New Abolitionists Radio which he co-hosts. He has been hosting and producing news talk radio and podcasting since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics. He is also a freelance writer who focuses on social and political issues from around the world and has been published by various outlets.

BTR News w/ Scotty Reid (North Carolina) 4 pm est - Join radio host Scotty T. Reid as he analyses some of the day's news headlines and gives his breakdown. Today Diamond & Silk, the two "popular" social media personalities and African-American Entrepreneurs are facing questions on whether or not they perjured themselves before Congress when asked about FEC financial records filed by the Trump campaign in 2016. Disclosures show $1,274.94 was paid to "Diamond & Silk" for a service listed as “field consulting” work. Tune in at 4 pm est, BTR News w/ Scotty Reid.

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When a presidential political campaign brings in "outside help", to give a speech which is basically what Diamond & Silk did, people in similar roles in past campaigns have been paid as much as $15,000.00 for one speech. They both agreed they were not paid for "consulting work" as the Trump Campaign said in the records but were only paid for their travel costs. The two women also seemed confused about the nature of the questions from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

In summation, it looks like the Trump campaign used the two African American women as free labor and that sounds an awful lot like slavery, especially given the optics here. Even if a prosecutor would determine that the Trump campaign committed no crime in lying on a financial report, it was bad business to weaponize these unsuspecting Black women and their blackness and then not tell them they were listed as political consultations which could require the payments to be reported to the IRS as business or personal income. The Trump campaign seemed little concerned about the women's welfare other than the sick entertainment value suspect racist white people get out of minstrel shows. Some historians have called Trump's campaign one of the most racialized political campaigns ever run in US history which would be pretty hard to do considering the long list of suspects.

Also during the first hour, we will be joined by a friend of the show, Mr. Kwabena Rasuli of Clear The Airwaves Project to discuss "vulgarity" in the use of the language used every day in American society.

Merriam-Webster Definition of "vulgar"

1 a : lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse

b : morally crude, undeveloped, or unregenerate : gross

c : ostentatious or excessive in expenditure or display : pretentious

2 a : offensive in language : earthy

b : lewdly or profanely indecent

3 a : generally used, applied, or accepted

b : understood in or having the ordinary sense

they reject the vulgar conception of miracle —W. R. Inge

BTR News w/ Scotty Reid (North Carolina) 4 pm est – Join radio host Scotty T. Reid as he analyses some of the day’s news headlines and gives his breakdown. Today Continue Reading →

BTR News - Former FBI director James Comey's memoirs titled "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership" hit number one in its first week. Although Comey is portraying himself as some straight shooting law and order man and seen as a hero of the opposition to Donald Trump, his record at the FBI shows the former Republican was very much a part of the racist culture nurtured at the FBI by one of its other former directors, J Edgar Hoover.

While J Edgar Hoover was known to be a blatant racist who targeted Black leaders, Comey has carefully crafted a public persona by invoking the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and mentioning how he has a copy of King's "Letter From a Birmingham Jail". While Comey has talked about the racist past of law enforcement in the country, the record shows his loyalty has been to upholding a racist and religiously biased system and he is was not a principled leader while at the FBI unless we are talking about the principles of white supremacy.

In an article published by the Intercept, Professor of political science and author Jeanne Theoharis explores the hypocrisy of Comey's expressed disgust with the treatment of Dr. King when paired with his actions at the bureau.

Theoharris writes, "Despite this professed appreciation for King and his aim to right the wrongs of the bureau’s past, Comey presided over many of the same racialized tactics and assumptions in his tenure as FBI director: broadly targeting the Muslim-American community, coercing informants, trafficking in racial profiling, surveilling Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock activists, and largely standing aside amid police violence and misconduct. As he hits the lecture circuit this week, feted by many across the political spectrum as the nation’s conscience, we would do well to move beyond his claims of “ethical leadership” to his actual actions as director of the FBI."

Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid is the host of BTR News and New Abolitionists Radio which he co-hosts. He has been hosting and producing news talk radio and podcasting since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics. He is also a freelance writer who focuses on social and political issues from around the world and has been published by various outlets. Currently, the live program is on hiatus but check the feed for pre-recorded podcasts.

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BTR News - Thank you for listening to Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid, I am joined by Max Parthas to discuss his delve into the Nixon Tapes which are recordings made by the former President "between February 1971 and July 1973, President Richard Nixon secretly recorded 3,700 hours of his phone calls and meetings across the executive offices. These recordings played a leading role in the resignation of our 37th president on August 9, 1974. They remain perhaps the greatest treasure of information ever left by a president, as well as the most complex, controversial set of presidential records in U.S. history. However, today these recordings remain relatively unexplored on non-Watergate topics."

Max started listening to the recordings which are published at http://nixontapes.org/ and started publishing excerpts. Max is concerned about reports that only person is reviewing the tapes and the chance that the person will edit sensitive information that would be of importance to both the Black and Slavery Abolitionists Community.

Max recently published audio excerpts where Nixon is discussing how the mainstream media, newspapers, television, and radio are self-censoring the news who are part of or acting on the requests of members of the not-so-secret-anymore, Bohemian Club. The specific recording is from 1971 and interestingly the next year, the Frank Church Senate Committee Hearings on Operation Mockingbird which exposed the CIA planting stories in the American press. This was also a tactic used by the J Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO operation to discredit civil rights activist and anti-Vietnam war protestors.

Author: Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid is the host of BTR News and New Abolitionists Radio which he co-hosts. He has been hosting and producing news talk radio and podcasting since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics. He is also a freelance writer who focuses on social and political issues from around the world and has been published by various outlets. Currently, the live program is on hiatus but check the feed for pre-recorded podcasts.