Mel Reeves is the community editor at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder. Find more of his work at his personal blog: fighthepowerjournal.com.
The police serve to reinforce the rulers’ definition of crime, but no system is more criminal than U.S. capitalism, the social/political/economic institution they serve.
The police are the real outside agitators Read More Nobody should misunderstand what’s going on in the streets of the U.S. We are winning!
Across the nation, we the people are winning! Read More
The capitalists put a symbolic and figurative pistol to the heads of lots of our fellow Americans.
The Great Betrayal: Capitalism as Judas Read More
Who killed Malcolm will likely never be proven, but it doesn’t have to be. The federal government wanted Malcolm X dead and only a fool would conclude otherwise.
Who Killed Malcolm X? Read More
Bob Kroll, on Facebook, tried to detract from Blevins’ killing by saying people should be more concerned about Black people killed by citizens. Why can’t we be concerned about both? This is not a new tactic, but a particularly heinous one considering that Blevins has not even been buried yet.
Could indifference to police brutality be a reflection of poor home training? Read More
The history of Blacks as apes or monkeys owes its start not to poor, unlettered, backwoods rednecks, but rather refined, wealthy and highly educated White people who invented so-called scientific racism in which Europeans sought to prove the inferiority of Blacks, ostensibly to justify their enslavement of Africans.
Roseanne Barr ape slur far from harmless, it has a profoundly racist history Read More Last year wrought disasters of Biblical proportion. The disasters weren’t limited to natural disasters, but social, economic and political calamities as well. These events gave us a peek into our …
Last year could be a foretaste of what is to come Read More
Scary stuff in St. Paul The recent attack on St. Paul mayoral candidate Melvin Carter III by the St. Paul Police Federation can be categorized as police violence in another …
Opinion: Police Federation attack on Melvin Carter III dispels myth of cop neutrality Read More
Over 300 people were killed and hundreds more were injured by a truck bomb terror attack in Mogadishu on Saturday, October 14. It was one of the worst terror events …
I am Mogadishu! And so are you…. Read More
Caution, read at your own risk it, as may make you “feel some kind of way.” Vice President Pence; Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones; ESPN; President Trump; the NFL Commissioner, …
Protests build as more athletes are ‘taking a knee’ Read More The Minnesota legislature’s attempt to defund public transportation is a much bigger deal than people allow themselves to believe; it is a giant step backward. If this effort is not …
Legislature has gone a bus/train too far: Take a stand before it’s too late Read More
For those who may have been unaware, the Minnesota legislature is presently proposing drastic cuts to the funding of transit that will, if it stands, send shock waves through the …
Republicans’ efforts to cut Twin Cities mass transit seems mean-spirited Read More