Condemned to Death, U.S. Slavery and Genocide, California Death Penalty. Banksters Demand Black Removal

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Show	Black Agenda Radio
Broadcast Title	Condemned to Death, U.S. Slavery and Genocide, California Death Penalty. Banksters Demand Black Removal
Broadcast Date	2014-07-23
Record Date	2014-07-23
Summary	McKinney: West Condemns Whole Regions to Death "What we are witnessing" in Syria and Iraq "is a process, a way to apply the death penalty to countries and make it appear to be a domestic, civil conflict," said former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. U.S. Founded in Slavery and Genocide - But Don't Tell Obama Gerald Horne's recent book The Counter-Revolution of 1776 "shows how slavery is very much at the heart and core, the driving force behind the decision to break off" from Great Britain, said historian, author and political analyst Paul Street. Mumia: California Death Penalty Unconstitutional? Death rows could begin to empty in California, where a federal district court has found the ultimate penalty is administered so arbitrarily it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. "I, like few reporters today, know a little something about death row," said political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, "since I spend almost 30 years on it." Banksters Demand Black Removal as a Condition of Urban Investment "Katrina left no doubt about the intentions of the folks who run this country, the financial class," said BAR executive editor Glen Ford, speaking at a Socialist Action forum in Hartford, Connecticut. "The goal is to drastically reduce the Black populations of the cities," because "the very presence of large numbers of Black people depresses the value of urban assets." The mayor of Hartford, a mostly Black and Latino city, wants to build a $60 million baseball stadium as a centerpiece of development. However, such schemes are ultimately intended to bring in whites and displace Blacks and browns, as a "prerequisite" for substantial corporation investment in the future, said Ford, at Urban Hope Refuge Church.