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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

The Intifada In the Mirror

By Perry Redd Columnist

The Palestinians have taken the greater share of the losses…but they’re still fighting. The Intifada is alive—and swelling. Oppression does that.

You can feel the tremor…America knows it’s well overdue. Many have prophesied a “revolution,” but for all the wrong reasons. Many have mischaracterized the agents of…

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Commentary

Tap Dancing on Our Graves

By Perry Redd Columnist

how often do we hear police dismiss the video when it’s processed as evidence for the prosecution? In those instances, police, typically launch a harassment blitz against the owners of the recording.

Have you ever seen a sad tap dance routine? Sure, you may have seen a sad tap dancer, but you can’t truly recall a sad tap…

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Commentary

Martyrs for the Masses

By Perry Redd Columnist

Black men accounted for 30 percent of the unarmed deaths, even though they make up just 6 percent of the US population! You do the math...the analysis shows that Black men were seven times more likely than white men to die by police gunfire while unarmed.

There comes a time when truths of the day must be told…from where the grass has no green. In the prophetic words of Malcolm X, quoting…

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Commentary

White Denial Matters

By Perry Redd Columnist

The fact of the matter is that white lives have always mattered; it’s time for an American shift forward…the kind of change that not only hits the fan, but breaks it!

I’ve come to learn that all that is Left, isn’t always Right. That is to say, those that profess to lean left in their politics won’t…

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The Dust Clouds of Charleston

By Perry Redd Columnist

White males are the ones who created this system of death, destruction, injustice and inequality. You cannot expect them to repair it. That’s our job.

Now that the shooting is over and the Kumbaya moment is waning, real issues are hitting the fan. As always, boot-wearing cowboys kickin’ up dust…so that…

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The McKinney Power Grab

By Perry Redd Columnist

For white Americans—in this instance, those in that Dallas suburb community—who believe that the police were justified, know that they still favor segregated pools, schools and communities—and those same people run afoul of today’s interpretation of the US Constitution.

We often think of the term “power grab” when speaking of political coups in Latin American “banana republics,” but I want to share its use in…

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Cover Story

The White Biker Elephant in the Room

By Perry Redd Columnist

white men with guns! How did they get to leave the scene - standing upright - whether arrested or not, whereas Black men leave the scene battered, bloodied or under a coroner’s sheet?

You know what it is…white people getting a lighter hand from the criminal justice system than Black Americans would normally get. We see it time and…

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Commentary

The Gall Within the Fall

By Perry Redd Columnist

Bill Cosby has been accused of some serious stuff! Rape. This cannot be taken lightly, nor can it be dismissed, as Cosby has tried to do in the past. It’s a terrible thing when one’s hidden past comes to light. These rape allegations are wearing track shoes, and they tracked down The Cos.

Bill Cosby has been accused of some serious stuff! Rape. This cannot be taken lightly, nor can it be dismissed, as Cosby has tried to do…

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Commentary

Flee Florida

By Perry Redd Columnist

What used to be terrorism against Black Americans is now legalized genocide.

Whether or not you’re among the surprised, facts on the ground are abundantly clear that the state of Florida is intentionally hostile - at the least…

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