Oct 24 2024 80 mins 5
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In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde (@Kehinde_Andrews) discusses how we understand Monday's not-guilty verdict of Sgt. Martyn Blake's trial, a White MET police marksman who killed an unarmed Black man, Chris Kaba in 2022. Kehinde links this to other cases of Black men killed by the police, to-date UK stats on police killings of Black people; and the relevance of Malcolm's concept of "The Negro" that's still with us today.
He makes plain that the racism of the police is the racism of the society. The police are as racist as the society allows them to be. We have the police force that society wants. The police, police with the consent of the racist society. The fears, prejudices, negative criminal stereotypical assessments, hallucinations, and "perceptual distortions" of the police are all features of the psychosis of Whiteness, a global phenomenon, that leads to our deaths.
In this week's Interview Kehinde talks with award-winning Sylvia Arthur (LOATAD founder) and Seth Avusuglo (LOATAD manager) from the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora Archive. They discuss the origin, mission, and development of LOATAD, the difficulty of getting Black books on the continent, the writing residencies + more.
The Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) is a decolonizing private library, archive, writing residency, research institute, and museum dedicated to the work of Afrikan and Diaspora writers from the late 19th century to the present day. Based in Accra, Ghana, it was founded by Sylvia Arthur in 2017 using 1300 of her own books. LOATAD’s current collection contains around 4000 books by writers from 41 of Africa’s 54 countries and Black authors from the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, and around the world. LOATAD's mission: to celebrate and champion Africa’s rarely acknowledged contribution to the global literary canon.
LOATAD SOCIALS LINKS
(IG) loatad_orgloatad_org @Barrist (X) @loatad_org @circa1957 (Sylvia Arthur) @Barrist (Seth Avusuglo) (Email) [email protected]
BLACK POLITICAL RANT LINKS
Schomburg Center to Display Never-Before-Seen ‘Lost’ Chapter of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Manuscript and Notes
https://www.nypl.org/press/schomburg-center-display-never-seen-lost-chapter-autobiography-malcolm-x-manuscript-and-notes
The 4Front Project (Temi Mwale, Executive Director):
https://www.4frontproject.org/about
4Front Linktree
https://linktr.ee/4frontproject
United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) IG:
https://x.com/uffcampaign?lang=en
United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) X:
https://www.instagram.com/uffcampaign/
"During the trial, the jury heard how [Martyn] Blake was from a middle-class background, a voracious reader who first worked in finance before joining the Met to escape a desk job."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/21/what-we-now-know-about-the-13-seconds-before-chris-kaba-was-shot
Police footage shows moment Chris Kaba was shot by officer now acquitted of murder – video:
https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2024/oct/21/police-footage-shows-moment-chris-kaba-was-shot-by-officer-now-acquitted-of-video
BLACK UNITED FRONT (BUF) LOATAD LINKS
Sylvia Arthur
https://sylvia-arthur.com/
Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora:
https://loatad.org/
Support (Donate) to LOATAD
https://ko-fi.com/loatad
JOIN THE STRUGGLE>THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
(Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK):
https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
(IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham
Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank
We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.
[email protected]
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*)
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/
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"
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 [email protected] to be listed.
MIP SOCIALS LINK
Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews (X) @kehinde_andrews
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964
Email: [email protected]
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Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
