Commentary - Red Voice

Transphobia is a Respectability Politic: Thoughts on Black Community Defense

"Contrary to some popular takes, centering the most vulnerable actually makes it easier (and is the only way) to fully account for all the struggles our people face as a totality."

Commentary

In Defense of Black Lives, Everything Must Go

"This contrast can be seen in how local officials dragged their feet in the Botham Jean case, as opposed to how quickly Atatiana Jefferson’s killer was arrested and charged within 24 hours after people occupied the streets armed."

News

New Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden: A Proper Examination

"...'liberal' news agencies will waive objectivity in investigations and instead adopt the tactics of their political 'polar-opposite' when it comes to the convenience of fulfilling their interests."

Black Radical Ecology

Who’s Man is This? Black Radical Ecology and the Anthropogenic Question

"Wynter teaches us that ‘Man’ is a colonial relation, not a ‘natural’ one. The anthropogenic question shouldn’t be about discovering why evolution has made ‘us’ dominant. It should be about freeing both human and nonhuman ‘Things’ from the hold of the (white/Western) ‘Man.’"

Iran

Britain and Iran: A Brief Modern History (1941-2020)

"With heightened tensions within the region close to the brink of war, historical context shows why the British state fears Iranian retribution..."

Commentary

The Great Divide

"People who advocate for the murder of people who are different are given more consideration than people who are living houseless on the street. "

Current Events

It's Not A Bug, It's A Feature

"What unites these two tragedies is the willful disregard for human life shown by large corporations across the globe. The stories are manifold, ranging from the banal to the obscene, but what is truly infuriating is the fact that it keeps happening."

Unions

It's Not The Fall That Kills You

"The United States economy sits on the two pillars of service and manufacturing. In the latest survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over half of all held jobs involved some aspect of Service, even if that was not their primary job descriptor."

Climate Change

Burnin’ Down Massa’s House: Notes Toward a Black Radical Ecology

"We need an ecological science...that is revolutionary and anti-colonial. [One] that reveals how the ecological problem is not an apocalypse, but is about the need for Massa’s house to burn."

Art

Decency: A Eulogy

"We had to kill Decency, because taking a stark, unyielding, impolite look at a person’s legacy is the only way we’re going to learn from it. That, and a good laugh keeps our dread at bay."

Commentary

A 'New' £1 billion: Boris and his new NHS lie

"...the time has come where facts don't matter to political discourse in an era dominated by nationalist populist rhetoric, and the face of such discourse has now been plastered with the face of Boris..."

Education

Dragging White Leftists: My Anti-Drug

"Today, if you are in good faith, you should do like Sartre did with Fanon and ask what, in spite of all, you can learn from our voices, now that we no longer address ourselves to you, but rather, to one another about you and beyond you."

Neoliberalism

It Was Never About Law And Order

"It has been made abundantly clear by this and many other situations that 'law and order' has always meant playing to the racial fears of the white majority."

Criticism

Bad Faith and Afropessimism: Notes Toward a Debate

"...the social world is not a product of natural laws, but is sustained by free human activity... voluntary human attitudes can make a difference in shaping the structures and outcomes of that world."

ICE

On Thin ICE

"Resistance doesn’t need to be loud and out. Resistance is a collection of actions, big and small, that snowball into a concerted effort."

Commentary

Toys R Us’ Mismanaged Debts Affect Laid Off Workers

"...is the $75 million even enough to do justice to the employees who made the company what it was?"

Current Events

For Lil’ Jazmine.

"...every time a member of the New Afrikan nation dies under this imperialist order, it is a genocide."

Current Events

A Man Was Lynched in Saint Louis on October 17th

"These are not accidents, or mistakes, or coincidences. There is a targeted, careful, directed conspiracy to eradicate or intimidate proletarian black leadership..."

Gentrification

FUCK THE STARBUCKS IN BED-STUY & HERE’S WHY:

"...Despite developers, the sell-out politicians and their supporters believing that all these changes to the neighborhood are for the better, I still am asking 'better for who?'"

News

Peaceful Protesters Held Longer than Killer Cop in Dallas: What does this Mean?

"9 progressive protesters were released earlier today after being arrested Sunday for demonstrating outside a Dallas Cowboys game..."

News

A Maoist’s Thoughts on the Murder of Botham Jean

"...A black man was just murdered in his own apartment in Dallas, a city which has Black people in two powerful city positions."