In this searing excerpt from Black Agenda Report, Jon Jeter examines the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and the state’s failure to reckon with rising white male violence and its own political shift to the right.
Jon Jeter
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Part II: A Soldier’s Story: A father’s lessons about America’s class war
‘As the Black Panthers were known to say, my father did not hate White people, he hated the oppressor. ‘
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Part I: A soldier’s story: A fathers lessons about America’s class war
This is part one of a two-part essay about the lessons writer Jon Jeter learned from his father.
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Healthcare industry bias portends trouble for Blacks during pandemic
‘Black people simply are not receiving the same quality of health care that their White counterparts are receiving.’
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COVID-19: the view across Black America
Black people will experience this almost Biblical scourge in ways that are very different from Whites.
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Bloomberg’s Democratic opponents live in glass houses
While I am loath to give him useful advice, I do think Bloomberg should take a page from Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for the Republican nomination.
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Negative reactions to Kobe’s death not as straightforward as they seem
What I don’t understand is the gracelessness of people who cheer his death, the way some cheered him on the court.