S2 EP2 · BLACK WORLD NEWS: UK&US General Election + "All Eyes On Kongo" and House Negro Complicity · DR CBS: Black Scare/Red Scare + Black Intellectuals + Pro-Palestine Encampments + More
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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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For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/
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Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
