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Episode 373 Promo - Green Party vs Black Interests (w/ Ajamu Baraka)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Green Party 2016 vice presidential candidate and editor of Black Agenda Report Ajamu Baraka joins Bad Faith to weigh in on claims that the Green Party is hostile to Black interests, including intimations from Dr. Cornel West that racial politics played a role in his choice to forego the Greens and run as an independent. Baraka also weighs in on why Black people are fleeing the Democratic Party, Biden's latest polls, campus pro-Gaza protests, and Biden's Morehouse address.

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Your Honor, our major argument that basically what we see is the consolidation of a particular form of

0:06.4

fascism in the U.S. These are all part of what is unfolding. We've been trying to wake people up in the Black Alliance for Peace.

0:15.2

We've been trying to wake up the public for six and a half years to what is unfolding here in this country.

0:20.4

And our latest newsletter, where I encourage people to check it out

0:24.0

on Black Alliance for Peace.com,

0:26.0

but we made the connection between

0:28.0

genocide and militarism, imperialism,

0:31.0

imperialism, white supremacy that has been exposed as a consequence of Gaza.

0:36.8

Again, these folks are serious about maintaining power.

0:40.0

And so the expansion of the genocide, the expansion of IDF training and Israeli equipment and companies selling this murderous equipment to police forces and that's surprising. They have to be stopped. They will

0:56.4

continue because they are moving toward a consolidation of a police state. Here in this country

1:02.0

where we have the largest number of people on the

1:04.0

planet already incarcerated and one of the most vicious police forces that we

1:09.2

call the domestic army. So these are the kinds of collections these young people are starting to make.

1:16.2

And that's why they are deserting the Democrat Party. That's why going back to what we've been

1:21.6

talking about. That's why the terrain has been prepared for a viable third-party challenge.

1:30.0

Everybody who is disgusted with the Biden administration and the Trump forces, they have an alternative.

1:37.0

That has to be said over and over again.

1:40.0

Don't just be uncommitted, permit, permit to a third party candidate.

1:45.9

And once the field gets cleared, you commit to the candidate this on the ballot.

1:52.5

Simple as that.

1:53.3

That's gonna be part of the pushback

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