Perry Redd

Let’s step back, exhale, and first, organize ourselves into a sustainable movement for Black self-determination that comprises a bloc of one million voters.

The documented history of dastardly tactics used to disenfranchise Black voters is nothing to be proud of. From literacy tests to voter intimidation to outright violence against voters, this Presidential election has out-dastardlied (oblige me to coin a new word) anything the US has witnessed in my lifetime.

When Blacks could vote, the white power of state governments imposed onerous barriers, such as literacy tests and disinformation about voting days to today’s widespread efforts to disenfranchise Blacks through voter ID laws. Now that’s the “rigged” system, not this hocus-pocus, unfounded gibberish of which Trump speaks.

It is imperative that you take a minute to observe the faces of the voices that are crying about their “anxiety.” They are chiefly a non-intellectual, working class, rural lot. These are the same people that Barack Obama, the 2008 presidential candidate said, in times of anxiety, “cling to their religion and guns.”

Kaepernick said it took time for him to decide how to express himself, but he's solidly comfortable with his methodology — even if it costs him endorsements or his spot on the 49ers’ roster (because he is being covertly threatened) — as he attempts to shine yet another light on and race relations and police brutality, specifically.

Political Correctness is a necessary remedy in a country with such a sordid history; one that has enslaved humans based on skin color, or denied Constitutional protections to those not of the dominant culture.

Muhammad Ali’s humor and gentle nature in the face of great racism, is why the USA is a tad closer to being “a more perfect union.” You might think Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is racist (as I do), but he’s only a mouthpiece for the millions of other white Americans who keep Muhammad Ali’s fight for freedom, justice and equality alive. I hate that fact, but it’s a reality!

Despite a nay saying minority, terrestrial radio still exists and continues to be the most accessible form of media. Local radio exists too and can be an equalizer—by-passing corporate, class-conscious gatekeepers. LPFMs empower a community of traditionally marginalized voices—handing them a microphone and a platform.