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Columnist

Perry Redd

BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Perry Redd, longtime activist & organizer, is the Executive Director of the workers rights advocacy, Sincere Seven that currently owns the FCC license for WOOK-LP 103.1FM/ok103.org. His latest book, Perry NoName: A Journal From A Federal Prison-book 1, chronicles his ‘behind bars’ activism that extricated him from a 42-year sentence and is now case law. He is also the author of As A Condition of Your Freedom: A Guide to Self-Redemption From Societal Oppression, Mr. Redd also hosts a radio show, Socially Speaking, from his Washington, DC studio. Tweet him @socialspeaks. Contact Mr. Redd and BC. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

124 pieces

Commentary

Muted Joy When the Devil Gets His Due

By Perry Redd Columnist

For the sake of women—and for the sake of justice—I am celebrating O’ Reilly’s departure, but just know that getting rid of this devil isn’t a win for women. It is a win for America.

At my quickly advancing age, I’ve learned three things about the Devil. He doesn’t always wear horns, so sometimes he’s hard to recognize. Second, the devil…

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Commentary

An Indignant Snapshot of Wealth Disparity

By Perry Redd Columnist

We cannot continue to make rich the very people who are keeping us poor.

I would imagine “exasperation” would appropriately describe my emotion each time I read about corporate malfeasance gone amuck. I can’t recall too many things I’ve described…

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Commentary

De-Constructing Progress

By Perry Redd Columnist

I can’t imagine that a 70-year-old man with a toddler’s temperament and a fifth-grader’s vocabulary could do this all on his own.

I really do hate to operate from a posture of anger, but since November 8th of last year, that’s been a pretty common disposition for me.…

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Cover Story

The President’s Authority Won’t Be Questioned?

By Perry Redd Columnist

Trump’s propensity to revise recent history with outright lies, mischaracterizations and sleight of hand machinations are enough to throw any authority he might have out the damned window.

Coming up on 60 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, I imagine that a million more Americans are so sick they’re throwing up (their hands too) at…

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Commentary

Trump’s Invisible Man

By Perry Redd Columnist

Donald Trump governs as if only white males exist. Just take a look at his department cabinet heads he’s selected. Nothing about it remotely represents this country’s populace nor does it represent any semblance of Black America. But of course, that’s his intent.

Donald Trump has been president now for about a month. In that short time, he has effectively wrecked the perception of the office of the presidency…

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Commentary

Ten Days On Fire

By Perry Redd Columnist

Over the past few days, I’ve been left to wonder how I can respect the office of the president with a man who has proven to be thoughtless and resistant to study the very thing he must show excellence in - namely governing the lives of over 360 million human beings.

I’ve been pretty despondent lately. In a week and a half, not a day has passed without some poli-drama. The politics of the day is mean-spirited…

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Commentary

An Alternative Fact Is An Actual Fiction

By Perry Redd Columnist

The question for the media is whether he’s telling the truth or deliberately lying. Misinformation is not disinformation, and the media cannot afford to normalize either.

On Inauguration Day 2017, my employer gave the staff the day off. The expectation was that workers, with the day off, might personally witness the peaceful…

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Cover Story

Disrespect is a License to Trump

By Perry Redd Columnist

He continues to perpetrate the lie that he won a mandate. He lost the popular election by 2.7 million votes - that is no mandate. Will we immerse ourselves in day-to-day survival mode or react as Johnny-come-lately activists that give Trump and his band of billionaires license to kill the future of our children’s and grandchildren?

I would say it’s frustrating, or even maddening, but I’m pretty much angry every day. I hear the thoughts and opinions of many who are deemed…

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Commentary

It Takes a Head Banging

By Perry Redd Columnist

The perpetual cycle of head-banging, foot-stomping, hand-wringing, and singing Kumbaya is well into its second century.

So, the deed is done. In the aftermath of the 2016 election of millionaire business mogul Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, he’s…

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