Jul 5, 2024
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde
Andrews makes plain the "All eyes on Congo" image trending recently
after the "All eyes on Rafa [a Palestinian city in the southern
Gaza Strip]" AI-generated image went viral. Kehinde says we need to
have eyes on Congo due to the conflict, and child labor
exploitation for corporate resources. But, the reality is that the
resources being mined at poverty wages are predominately minerals
used for batteries in smartphones and laptops that we use in the
West. This is the paradox we're tangled in of living in the
West.
Kehinde says that the first step is acknowledging our complicity,
but we can't just sit back and tweet about Congo + Neo-colonialism,
that's not enough. That's the house negro mentality. We need a
field negro mentality. We need to build alternatives that can
sustain us, and we are trying. We're building the Harambee
Organisation of Black Unity for Malcolm's 100th birthday and we're
having a convention on the continent in Gambia, the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP -May
17-19, 2025).
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In this week's official guest interview, Kehinde
Andrews talks with Charisse Burden-Stelly aka Dr.
CBS about criminalizing pro-Palestine encampments and
uprisings, particularly Black students and activists; squaring the
circle of working in university as a Black radical intellectual;
her new book Black Scare/Red Scare that lifts the ways marxism
isn't just White people shit; and on being a Rodneyist.
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Dr. CBS is an associate professor of African
American Studies at Wayne State University, a critical Black
Studies scholar, book author, co-editor, and a member of the
Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and Community Movement Builders (CMB).
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BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
"All eyes on Kongo" image
https://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2024-05/31/thumb/featurecrop/600X300/1717159665-9211.jpg
"All eyes on Rafah" image tweet
https://x.com/Shayan86/status/1795789706501787707
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GUEST LINKS
Dr. CBS
https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/
Dr. CBS
Five Walter Rodney Quotes I Love
https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/blog/8-five-walter-rodney-quotes-i-love
Dr. CBS' New Book
Black Scare / Red Scare Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United
States
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo207945104.html
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MIP LINKS
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19,
2025
On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of
Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora
who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global
organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to
anyone.
https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front
Global directory of
Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge
so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address,
website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be
listed.
From the growling wolf to the smiling fox
"Malcolm already warned us of the dangers of running from the
clutches of the wolf into the arms of the smiling fox."
https://make-it-plain.org/2020/11/07/from-the-growling-wolf-to-the-smiling-fox/
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Guest: @blackleftaf (IG) @blackleftaf (X)
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (X)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck
@inhisownterms @farafinmuso
Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Blog) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT)
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Make it Plain is
the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black
Unity