HOWARD UNIVERSITY CHEER LEADERS KNEEL

n Honor of Flag Day.. A Poem by Marvin X...

When I'll Wave The Flag

I'll wave the flag
When the trillions in reparations are paid to the
African American Nation
For 400 years of being terrorized in America
When the bill of the Middle Passage is paid
When the bill from the cotton fields is paid

I'll wave the flag
When the damages due the descendents of mass murder
is paid
Mass kidnapping
Mass rape

I'll wave the flag
When the police stop terrorizing us for breathing
while black
Walking while black
Loving while black

I'll wave the flag
When the 2 million men and women in prison are
released
for petty crimes
And those guilty of stealing elections take their
place
in the cells

I'll wave the flag
When those guilty of stealing labor, stealing
energy,
stealing souls of the poor are jailed


I'll wave the flag
When those guilty of the miseducation of our
children are
jailed for crimes against humanity

I'll wave the flag
When those who terrorize the earth, pollute the
earth,
poison the food, the water, the air
Inject animals with hormones
Genetically alter vegetables and fruits
When these people are taken before the world court
for
terrorizing the world
I'll wave the flag

Until then
Kiss my motherfuckin' ass.

2001 Marvin X.I

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No Drama At Howard University Over Cheerleaders Taking A Knee During Anthem

Black cheerleaders at majority White universities are feeling a backlash for their anthem protest.

Roz Edward, Michigan Chronicle Managing Editor

Posted October 15, 2017

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The Kennesaw State University community in Georgia is having a divisive debate after five football cheerleaders kneeling during the national anthem on Sept. 30, in solidarity with NFL players who are bringing awareness to racial injustice.

According to The New York Times, cheerleaders at Howard University began kneeling during the anthem since September 2016, when quarter Colin Kaepernick launched his controversial protest. Unlike the Kennesaw cheerleaders, there’s been no drama at the historically Black institution.

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Howard Cheerleaders Add Voices to the Anthem Debate by Taking a Knee

The cheerleaders at Howard, a historically black university, kneel during the national anthem before football games. Players don’t get the chance.

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In fact, since the 1980s Howard University has played the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” at home games immediately before “The Star-Spangled Banner.” As The Times also noted, it’s not unusual to see raised fists in the crowd and on the field during the Black national anthem—which predates the national anthem.

“I think about liberty and justice for all, and how it’s not being executed in our country right now,” cheerleader squad captain Sydney Stallworth told The Times, reflecting on the national anthem.

Stallworth added that she feels “lucky” to be enrolled at an HBCU where she has a platform to express her views about racism and inequality.

READ MORE:  Louisiana Schools Warn Students About National Anthem Protests

Meanwhile, at Kennesaw State University, the turmoil continues. According to the AJC, Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren expressed his disapproval with the university’s president, Sam Olens. After Warren weighed in, the university’s athletic department stopped allowing the cheerleaders on the field during the anthem.

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Protesters support Kennesaw State University cheerleaders who kneeled during national anthem

KENNESAW — As contention builds over five Kennesaw State University cheerleaders who kneeled during the national anthem at a football game on Sept. 30, about two dozen supporters gathered near

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Not everyone at Howard agrees with the anthem protest, but disapproval is muted.

Howard’s cheerleaders coach, Demarco Brooks, told The Times that kneeling during the anthem would not be his “first choice” to protest racial injustice. However, he’s respects the cheerleaders’ rights.

SOURCE:  New York Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Protests Continue In Baton Rouge After Police Shooting Death Of Alton Sterling

Demonstrators gather after marching at the Louisiana Capitol to protest the shooting of Alton Sterling on July 9, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot by a police officer in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge on July 5th, leading the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation.

NORTH KOREA ATTACKS MAD DOG TRUMP

North Korean leaflets attacking 'mad dog Trump' dropped over Seoul

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Propaganda fliers presumed to be from North Korea and calling US President Donald Trump a “mad dog” have turned up across central Seoul, including near the presidential Blue House, according to posts on social media and people who found them.
“Death to old lunatic Trump!” reads one poster, with a North Korean soldier with rifle in hand, crushing what looks to be Trump’s head with his tongue dangling out of his mouth. Near the soldier’s head is the line: “Complete obliteration.”
Another poster shows Trump with the body of a dog being decapitated by an axe. Blood is shown splattered on the axe in the poster, which states: “Let’s behead mad dog Trump for the future of a peaceful and warless world and mankind!”
Both were in colour.
An anti-Trump leaflet believed to come from North Korea by balloon reads "Death to an old crazy guy Trump!" (NK News/Reuters)

It is not difficult to find North Korean propaganda posters in South Korea, usually flown by balloon over the highly fortified demilitarised zone. Military images and anti-US threats are common in North Korea propaganda as Pyongyang demands the United States cease what it says is its preparations for invasion.
But the new series of fliers posted recently on Twitter and other social media target Trump specifically.
Trump last month, in a speech to the United Nations, threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if needed to defend itself and allies and called the North’s leader Kim Jong-un a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.
“I am pretty sure it came from North Korea by balloon, since the prevailing winds during October have been from north to south and we’ve been getting reports of others finding them throughout Seoul,” said Chad O‘Carroll, managing director of NK News, a Seoul-based news subscription service, who found the leaflets while jogging in central Seoul.
In an apparent jab at Trump’s UN speech, one of the propaganda posters featured Trump standing behind a podium with a rocket in his mouth painted with the words “totally destroy North Korea”.
Again, Trump is depicted as a dog with a human face and labelled as “mad dog Trump”.
Men in suits with surprised looks on their faces are shown in the poster saying “He’s gone completely insane” and “If we let him be, there will be war”.
Kim Jong-un inspects weapon North Korea says is powerful hydrogen bombReclusive North Korea, which has carried out a series of nuclear and missile tests in defiance of UN sanctions, and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
The North regularly threatens to destroy the South and its main ally, the United States.
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Black Bird Press News & Review: White Supremacy Drug War Blowback: Opioid addiction

Black Bird Press News & Review: White Supremacy Drug War Blowback: Opioid addiction

60 minutes: DEA thwarted on opioid epidermic

'60 Minutes': DEA thwarted on opioid epidemic

Bill Whitaker is the correspondent on a '60 Minutes' report about the opioid epidemic. (Michael Yarish/CBS)

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The Drug Enforcement Administration’s attempts to curb the opioid epidemic as deaths increased were thwarted by powerful forces in Washington, according to a joint report by “60 Minutes” and The Washington Post.

The report, which airs at 7:30 p.m. Sunday on CBS, was previewed Friday morning on “CBS This Morning.” The story will appear in the Post’s Sunday edition.

Every day in this country, 91 people die in the crisis.

Reporters Bill Whitaker of “60 Minutes” and Scott Higham of The Post talked about the investigation, which makes the point that big companies have been complicit in the drug deaths.

Joe Rannazzisi, a former deputy assistant administrator, blasts distributors for fueling the epidemic and ignoring the deadly toll. “This is an industry that allowed millions and millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors’ offices that distributed them out to people who had no legitimate need for those drugs,” he tells Whitaker.

How bad is the situation?

“This is an industry that’s out of control,” Rannazzisi said. “What they want to do is do what they want to do, and not worry about what the law is. If they don’t follow the law in drug supply, people die. That’s just it.”

In the preview Friday morning, the reporters said that DEA investigators were running up against a drug industry that’s incredibly powerful in Washington because of lobbying and spending in Congress.

Whitaker said the distributors ship the drugs and are required to keep track of every pill, but one West Virginia town of 300 people received 9 million opioid pills over several years.

“The DEA whistleblowers we talked to said that happened again and again and again,” Whitaker said.

The bottom line: The drug companies are more influential with lawmakers than their constituents’ suffering, Whitaker said.

The DEA people saw cases they were building languish and “die on the vine” in Washington because of lobbying, Higham said.

The report on “60 Minutes” will be double in length. The six-month investigation is also the work of Lenny Bernstein of The Post and ”60 Minutes” producers Ira Rosen and Sam Hornblower.

hboedeker@orlandosentinel.com and 407-420-5756.'60 Minutes' Blames The Pharmaceutical Industry For America's Heroin Epidemic

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Sunday evening, 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker went to Columbus, Ohio, to understand America's heroin epidemic. The drug is becoming cheaper and easier to get, he argues, and its stigma is vanishing. But his reporting places much of the blame for the addictions and deaths he documents on opioid pain pills. People become addicted to the pills, and than switch to heroin because it is cheaper.

“I graduated in the 80s,” Tracy Morrison, a nurse, tells the newsmagazine. “I was a nursing director when we decided to swing the pendulum from not treating pain to treat everybody's pain. I was a part of that. And at that time, I had no idea that we were addicting people.”

Now Tracy has two daughters who are both addicts. One of them, Jenna, talks to 60 Minutes, saying she started on pain pills at 15 or 16 and progressed to heroin when she was 18. Eventually, she overdosed and almost died. But Whitaker finds more damning anecdotes. He talks to parents whose teenage children became addicted to opiates that were originally prescribed to them by their doctors. Tyler Campbell, for instance, was a high school football star. His parents said he became addicted to opiates after his doctor prescribed him 60 Vicodin for a shoulder surgery. (Vicodin and generic versions of it were, incidentally, the most prescribed medicine in the U.S. every year between 2009 and 2012.)

Some people are obviously becoming addicted to drugs like Oxycontin and Vicodin because they abuse them, without ever needing to take them for pain. And some are starting heroin because it is cheap, because the stigma that it once had is decreasing, and because it can be smoked or snorted, instead of injected, making it easier to use it at a party. And we should always be suspicious of the narrative 60 Minutes adopts here, that a drug that was once used by “other people” is now being used by “people like us,” or, as one of 60 Minutes’ telegenic subjects puts it, “even Miss America could be a junkie.”

And some people do need these drugs because of pain. “What about those POOR SOULS who need Pain KILLERS, but now cannot get them,” writes commenter CESNNEWYORK on CBS’ site. “I have had to SUFFER with [a] knee that needs to be replaced, but because DOCTORS are not ready issue these meds I have to SUFFER.”

The flip side of this pain and suffering is that prescription pain pills cause 16,000 deaths a year in the U.S., not counting those caused by heroin. How to we balance the benefit of these drugs against that clear risk? A terrifying letter published in The New England Journal of Medicine last week showed that even as the abuse of pain drugs like Oxycontin, Percocet, and Vicodin seems to have dropped off, it has been replaced by the use of heroin. Do we view that as the overuse (and marketing) of opioid pills causing heroin use, or as restrictions on needed drugs causing an increase in heroin use? Is it both?

Andrew Kolodny, the chief medical officer of addiction treatment facility Phoenix House, argued to me over email that those who switch to heroin may be better off than those who don’t. He says that older people who become addicted to painkillers have less trouble getting pills from doctors than teenagers, and that they are more likely to overdose than those who switch to heroin.

Highlights from Marvin X in Concert

Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X in the Light Concert, Tour date #1, Black Repertory Group Theatre, Berkeley, CA, Sept. 30, 2017

Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X in the Light Concert, Tour date #1, Black Repertory Group Theatre, Berkeley, CA, Sept. 30, 2017

Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin:X in the Light Concert #2

Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin:X in the Light Concert #2