Table of Contents
Glen Ford's Irreplaceable Journalism ix
Introduction xv
Part I Thanksgiving 1
No More American Thanksgivings (November 27, 2003) 3
Part II Bush and Katrina 17
They Have Reached Too Far: Bush's Road Leads to Ruin for Himself and His Pirates (March 20, 2003) 19
No Black Plan for the Cities, Despite the Lessons of Katrina (May 9, 2007) 22
The Age of Katrina-Not Obama (August 26, 2008) 29
Part III DLC and Black Misleadership 35
Katrina, War, Impeachment, and the Black Gulag (August 22, 2007) 37
The "Obscene Fourteen" House NSA Negroes (July 13, 2013) 44
Detroit Is the Nexus of the New American Apartheid (September 18, 2013) 47
The Siege of Detroit: A War of Black Urban Renewal (July 23, 2014) 49
The Democratic Road to Black Ruin (March 23, 2016) 53
The Validity and Usefulness of the Term "Black Misleadership Class" (January 4, 2018) 56
Part IV Duopoly 63
Both Major U.S. Parties Are Plagues on Humanity (July 1, 2015) 65
Vector of Fear: Blacks and the Democratic Party (February 3, 2016) 71
Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party (February 11, 2016) 75
Hillary Stuffs Entire U.S. Ruling Class Into Her Big, Nasty Tent (August 10, 2016) 81
Clinton's Basket of Deplorables (September 14, 2016) 85
Fascism with a Democratic Party Face (November 30, 2016) 88
Facebook Is Not Your Friend (October 17, 2018) 93
Part V Obama 97
The Great Black Hajj of 2009 (January 27, 2009) 99
Obama's Emerging Legacy: Wars, Bankers, and For-Profit Healthcare (June 24, 2009) 102
What Part of "We Needs Jobs" Does Obama Not Get? (December 22, 2009) 108
First Black Presidency Has Driven Many African Americans Insane (July 6, 2010) 110
Gridlock Is a Blessing: To Hell with Obama and his Van Joneses (November 23, 2011) 112
Why Barack Obama Is the More Effective Evil (March 2012) 116
Fletcherism and Fakery: Guarding Obama's Left Flank (August 22 2012) 121
What Obama Has Wrought (September 5, 2012) 125
Angela Davis Has Lost Her Mind Over Obama (March 28, 2012) 128
Black America More Pro-War Than Ever (September 18, 2013) 130
Black Madness Under Obama: African Americans More Pro-NSA, Anti-Snowden Than Whites and Hispanics (January 22, 2014) 134
Gridlock (Once Again) Rescues Social Security from Obama and the GOP (February 26, 2014) 137
Obama's Last Presidential Lies (January 1 2017) 139
The Obama Legacy (January 19, 2017) 141
Part VI Wars in Africa and the Middle East 145
The Shrinking American Empire (July 8, 2009) 147
Race and Arab Nationalism in Libya (March 9, 2011) 149
Western Mercenaries and Corporations Pouring Into Libya (November 1, 2011) 154
A Second Wave of Genocide Looms in the Congo, with Susan Rice on Point (November 28, 2012) 156
Obama's Humiliating Defeat (September 11, 2013) 159
Rwanda's Formula For Success: Murder Your Neighbors and Steal Their Wealth (March 26 2014) 163
There Is No U.S. War Against ISIS; Instead, Obama Is Protecting His "Assets" (June 2 2016) 165
Yes, Obama and Clinton Created ISIS-Too Bad Trump Can't Explain How It Happened (August 17, 2016) 169
Part VII Foundational Leaders: James Brown, Malcolm X, and MLK 175
James Brown: The Man Who Named a People (January 10, 2007) 177
Dragging Malcolm X to Obamaland (April 27, 2011) 187
MLK and Obama: Two Diametrically Opposed Legacies (April 5, 2017) 194
Part VIII Today's Leaders: Trump, Biden, Sanders 201
None of Them Has Ever Been My President (November 16, 2016) 203
Criminal Nation: Obama and Trump Should Both Be Jailed for War Crimes (May 10, 2017) 208
Bernie Sanders Can't Shake His Imperial Piggishness (September 28, 2017) 213
How Donald Trump Rode in on "Dark Money" (January 31, 2018) 218
Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies (April 3, 2019) 222
Sanders vs. the Endless Austerity Regime (July 10, 2019) 226
The Issue-Less Impeachment: The Corporate Democrats Stand for Nothing, So They Impeach for Nothing (December 11, 2019) 231
The Corporate Democrats' (and Alicia Garza's) Get-Sanders Slanders (October 2, 2019) 234
Trump Is a Criminal but the Democrats Belong to the Same Mafia (January 9, 2020) 239
Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the Global Race to the Bottom (January 23, 2020) 243
Fear Pervades Black Politics, and Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression (March 4, 2020) 246
Part IX COVID-19 and Lockdown 251
Time of Plague and Meltdown: Mass Murder by Corporate Duopoly (March 25, 2020) 253
Resistance Growing to COVID-Capitalism (April 8, 2020) 256
Indict and Punish the Perpetrators of COVID Mass Death (May 20, 2020) 265
Part X Black Lives Matter, Reparations, and a New, Authentic Left 269
The Black-Latino Future: Finding a Way to Solidarity (October 25, 2006) 271
Occupy Wall Street Joins Occupy the Dream: Is it Co-optation, or Growing the Movement? (January 11, 2012) 282
#BlackLivesMatter and the Democrats: How Disruption Can Lead to Collaboration (August 12, 2015) 287
#BlackLivesMatter Performs a Self-Humiliation at Hillary Clinton's Hands (August 19, 2015) 292
#BlackLivesMatter Hurts Democrats' Feelings (September 2, 2015) 299
Garza vs. Mckesson: The Great Debate Over How the Democratic Party Will Liberate Black People (October 30, 2015) 304
"Black Lives Matter" Groups Hoping for a Big Payday (November 18, 2015) 307
Nationalizing the Banks Is a Popular Demand, So Let's Demand It (June 6, 2018) 310
Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives (June 5, 2019) 315
We Are Already Late to the Great Black Reparations Debate (June 25, 2019) 320
Community Control of the Police-And a Whole Lot More (June 17, 2020) 324