Censorship of the Black Left | Black Agenda Report

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1057413

What do the Washington Post, Rainer Shea, and Youtube all have in common? Your first two guesses are free.

Now, I'm not going to say I particularly trust Dr. Cornel West-- I'd have to do more research into him as a person before I did as a candidate; but I do rather like the way this article draws up the settler-liberal efforts to sideline him the same way publications like BAR, or channels like BPM and RBN have been getting sidelined and silenced by Youtube.

The man whose politics have been described as fascistic, who has been labeled as the most racist president, is one whom they cannot defeat politically. That is because the Democratic Party isn’t really much different. And so they are at a loss as to how to secure victory without silencing anyone who might expose their fraudulence. So it is the liberal class which has led the fight to silence the left.

This conundrum explains why the Cornel West candidacy is so dangerous as are the outlets which allow him to speak about the issues that matter to millions of people, issues they’re told can’t be addressed. And so the corporate media and the liberal class join in condemning his candidacy. The Nation magazine, allegedly left, asks West to run as a Democrat, a sure way to be the latest sheepdog, the latest person to sacrifice the needs of millions of people to prop up what can’t be propped up. And that is why it is important to silence outlets like Black Power Media and Revolutionary Blackout Network. It is Black people who still keep the Democratic party together and who must be convinced that they can’t stray from its orthodoxy. (emphasis mine)