May 5, 2025
Ownership Is Not Freedom!
Why there is no freedom under capitalism. Â
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Ownership Is Not Freedom!
Why there is no freedom under capitalism. Â
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Feeling particularly irritated with the way all mainstream depictions of Malcolm X, from Spike Lee's film to One Night in Miami to Blood Brothers de-fang, flatten and misrepresent him and what led to his assassination.
I'll be adding Jared Ball's A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X to my reading list.
Listen in to this engaging and illuminating conversation on Black banks and the nature of wealth and political power, inspired by …
Listen for a fascinating history of Black banking in the United States. It features a favorite scholar of mine, Nathan Connolly, author of “A World More Concrete.”
A summary: Black banking has been an anemically initiated response to social inequality which has done nothing to fix the racial wealth gap. At two pivotal moments in history, Reconstruction and post-1968, Black peoples were demanding real, substantive policy changes (in the form of land, capital, reparations, and/or more robust poverty-relief programs) to address inequalities. Instead, they got a bank.
Note also the critique of current “bank black” movements. If, as Mehrsa et. all contend, banks are extensions of government policy (making their monetary practices– such as who they extend capital to, whose debts they forgive, how and– and now, increasingly– on whom they speculate– extensions of political policy), then the widely circulated adage that Black people first need to gain economic power before they attempt to grab at political power must be corrected. In other words: gaining economic power is impossible if banking institutions are led by those who stand to gain money from your disempowered, exploited status. In actuality, economic and political power work in tandem.
The Tenth Are Attacking the Talented! DuBois v. PBS and the Black Bourgeoisie
Professor Jared Ball examines the most recent PBS documentary on W. E. B. Du Bois ("W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause"). and how it overlooks or glosses over Du Bois's growing radicalism and developing politics in his later life, with some talking heads in the doc concluding that DuBois was naïve for believing in Socialism/Communism as he advocated for that and Pan Africanism as answers for Black liberation. The documentary apparently half-quotes Du Bois saying, "Black people can't win" as he leaves to live in Ghana. Ball learned the quote came from a letter to a friend, featured in the Gerald Horne book Black and Red: W.E.B Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War (1944-1963). "Your letter of Sept 7th makes me so mad… I just cannot take anymore of this country's treatment. We leave for Ghana October 5th and I set no date for return… Chin up, and fight on, but realize that American Negroes can't win." What he'd been referring to was a friend dealing with the systemic antiblackness that barred them from simple day-to-day privileges afforded to affluent Black folks of the era. At this point in his academic career, both Black and non-Black spaces had iced Du Bois out for his beliefs in Communism, a consequence of the Red Scare. In Ghana, Du Bois felt he could still fight for Black liberation. Ball's primary concern is that the watering down of Du Bois' radical politics will give future generations a misconception of what he really stood for.
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George Jackson: Releasing the Dragon (A Video Mixtape)
“Bashi Rose and Jared Ball, part of the imixwhatilike crew, have created this video mixtape commemoration to the life and politics of George Jackson. With original music and arrangements from jazz drummer Billy Kilson, Tim Hicks of the Cornel West Theory, Hec Dolo, Andre McKnight, Jake Freeman, and Bashi Rose and readings, commentary and performances by David Johnson (former comrade),Umar bin Hasan, Maisi and Marley Ball, Bali and Conal Rose, Tallulah Gabriel,Rebel Diaz, K. Amori, Son of Nun, Slangston Hughes, Eddie Conway, Norman Jackson, Bilal Rahman, Laini Mataka, Tim Hicks and Falani Spivey.”
Panel on class politics within the movement for Black lives.
Co-Hosts: Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Jared Ball
Panelists: Tom Porter / CORE and SNCC, Netfa Freeman / Pan-African Community Action (PACA), Jennifer Bryant / ONE DC, Lawrence Grandpre / Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Eugene Puryear / Party for Socialism and Liberation
Dr. Frank Wilderson was back with The Killer Bs (Drs. Jared Ball, Todd Steven Burroughs and Hate) recently to discuss police violence within the context of anti-Blackness. We discussed the on-going crisis of police brutality and particularly how that persistent violence explains a larger and permanent “social death” imposed on Black people in the U.S. and around the world. Wilderson also made strong and challenging points about how this anti-Blackness disturbs attempts at solidarity with others most often associated with allied struggles for civil and human rights.