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Well, I was talking about the crisis of black elite leadership. When it comes to black leaders, if the model is to be successful but not publicly attack white supremacy — well, then that’s really about success to fit in. Fitting in, in a neoliberal world, is to be well adjusted to injustice. I’ll give you an example: Dear brother Ta-Nehisi Coates has just come out with a new book.Yes. “We Were Eight Years in Power.” Who’s the “we”? When’s the last time he’s been through the ghetto, in the hoods, to the schools and indecent housing and mass unemployment? We were in power for eight years? My God. Maybe he and some of his friends might have been in power, but not poor working people.Dr Cornel West

“The symbolic power of Barack Obama’s presidency – that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle – assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries,And it was that fear that gave the symbols Donald Trump deployed – the symbols of racism – enough potency to make him president, and thus put him in position to injure the world.Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It’s fairly obvious." Ta-Nehisi Coates

OF ALL THE RICH, INSTRUCTIVE, UPLIFT-ING and expansive ways to express the central meaning and message of Kwanzaa, none is more vital or valuable than our seeing and embracing it as a season and celebration of creating and sharing good in the world. Even Kwanzaa’s most essential definition as a celebration of family, community and culture, is a celebration of the shared good in and of family, community and culture, and ultimately what all this means for the good of the world. Dr Maulana Karenga

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (theOxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more WBRN Radio . bostonred.org

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

 

Merry Christmas from WRBN Radio !

Tom Coomer has retired twice: once when he was 65, and then several years ago. Each time he realized that with just a Social Security check, “You can hardly make it these days.” So here he is at 79, working full-time at Walmart. During each eight-hour shift, he stands at the store entrance greeting customersYears ago, Coomer and his co-workers at the Tulsa plant of McDonnell Douglas, the famed airplane maker, were enrolled in the company pension, but in 1994, with an eye toward cutting retirement costs, the company closed the plant.“After they shut the plant down, I would dream that I was back at McDonnell Douglas and going to get my pension,” Coomer recalled. “In the dream, I would try to clock in but I couldn’t find my time card. And then I’d wake up.” WP

AT&T has announced layoff’s affecting people in five states, including Missouri.Just days before Christmas, hundreds of people in the metro found out they will be out of jobs come Jan. 4.On Dec. 16, the company announced a surplus affecting an estimated 600 employees in Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.AT&T announced $1,000 bonuses for more than 200,000 U.S. employees in response to the GOP Tax Plan passing. Those recently notified of these job cuts say the bonuses seem like a slap in the face.Fox news Kansas City

Communiqué from Santa’s secret location http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/communique-from-santas-secret-location-at-a-post-office-near-you/

Happy Christmas From WBRN Radio  !

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics. Políticos de la sem Hiroshimaana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

 Democracy Dies in Darkness Washington Post

Stetson Kennedy Foundation   http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/

From #MAGA to #MeToo: A look at U.S. public opinion in 2017 http://www.pewresearch.org/essay/from-maga-to-metoo-a-look-at-u-s-public-opinion-in-2017/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=3d0eb798a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_12_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-3d0eb798a6-399756289

Friday Java the political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

News and Guts from Dan Rather  https://www.newsandgutsmedia.com

Public News Service http://www.publicnewsservice.org

The Minnesota Twins: A Complete History of Double-Barrel Senate Elections http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-minnesota-twins-a-complete-history-of-double-barrel-senate-elections/

“Fair question. I’ve got to have the evidence, and I don’t have it yet,” Freeman responded. “Let me just say it’s not my fault. So if it isn’t my fault, who didn’t do their job? Investigators.(Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension) They don’t work for me. They haven’t done their job.”Freeman said coming to a decision “is the big present I want under the Christmas tree.” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman

“We are deeply concerned that the initial investigation was not done properly and with the greatest of integrity and sense of completeness,” Mr Ruszczyk said at the Sydney press conference on Thursday.Mr Ruszczyk said he had earlier been assured that “all necessary information to make a reasoned decision on whether or not to charge Justine’s shooter” would be provided to the County Attorney by the BCA.

Their story reveals the stubborn persistence of harassment in an industry once the exclusive preserve of men, where abuses can be especially brazen. For the Ford women, the harassment has endured even though they work for a multinational corporation with a professional human resources operation, even though they are members of one of the country’s most powerful unions, even though a federal agency and then a federal judge sided with them, and even after independent monitors policed the factory floors for several years.

Workers describe a mix of sex, swagger, suspicion and racial resentment that makes the factories — the Chicago Assembly Plant and the Chicago Stamping Plant — particularly volatile.

The plants are self-enclosed worlds where employees pass on job referrals so relatives, classmates and longtime friends can work together. They share gossip and rumors, but also keep secrets that entrench bad behavior. New Times

.Since 2011, Iran has worked to establish itself as a prominent aggressor in cyberspace, alongside China, Russia and North Korea. Evolving from mere website defacement and crude censorship domestically in the early 2000s, Iran wasn’t pursuing cyber capabilities with much urgency, experts say, until it was revealed  in 2010 that a joint Israeli-U.S. Stuxnet worm sabotaged nuclear centrifuges at Iran’s facility in Natanz  Cipher Brief

Cybersecurity isn't easy, but simple principles still apply. Accountability is one, cooperation another. They are the cornerstones of security and resilience in any society. In furtherance of both, and after careful investigation, the U.S. today publicly attributes the massive "WannaCry" cyberattack to North Korea.

The attack spread indiscriminately across the world in May. It encrypted and rendered useless hundreds of thousands of computers in hospitals, schools, businesses and homes. While victims received ransom demands, paying did not unlock their computers. It was cowardly, costly and careless. The attack was widespread and cost billions, and North Korea is directly responsible.Wall Street Journal

Kaspersky Security Bulletin. Overall statistics for 2017 https://www.kaspersky.com/images/KESB_Whitepaper_KSN_ENG_final.pdf

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (theOxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more WBRN Radio . bostonred.org

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015