Jacqueline Luqman: Five Things Characterising African Americans' Endless Struggle in the US

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Jacqueline Luqman is the guest for this episode. She co-hosts “By Any Means Necessary” on Radio Sputnik, a daily show that analyzes current political and social events through an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, radical Black internationalist tradition and lens. She is also a contributor to The Real News Network, Editor-In-Chief of the social media program Coffee, Current Events & Politics in Luqman Nation, and a contributor to Black Power Media. She has more than 20 years of activism in Washington, DC focusing on participating in and supporting community-level issues as well as regional and national that impact working-class, poor, and oppressed people in the US and abroad. She is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace, Pan-African Community Action, is a supporter of several other grassroots radical Black-focused and led organizations, and is an active member of the Board of Social Action in Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, a progressive church in Washington, DC. https://sputniknews.com/author_luqman_jacqueline/

Jacqueline talks to us on:

• Five issues affecting, as she puts it, Africans in America (African Americans) – a) gentrification, b) miseducation, c) police assassination, d) mass incarceration and e) access to wealth.
• The struggle of African people all over the world is not covered in mainstream media in the U.S and that’s intentional.
• The struggle is the same for all Africans around the world – it's almost cultural.
• Miseducation - African Americans were told they didn’t have a history before enslavement.
• African Americans are conditioned to think that capitalism is the only economic system that makes sense.
• Police assassination- Barack Obama did nothing when African Americans were killed vigilant style. Police in the US are not legally required to report police brutality to anyone.
• Mass incarceration – African Americans were considered surplus people once enslavement was illegal. Mass incarceration is nothing more than the extension of the slave codes, black codes during the Jim Craw.
• The capitalist system, right along with white supremacy and militarism, is at the root of all the problems of African people.

Find Jacqueline Luqman on

YouTube: Black Power Media & Luqman Nation

Twitter: Luqmannation1

Radio: Sputniknews.com listen live from 2:00 to 4:00 PM EST M-F and watch on YouTube from 3:00-4:00 at By Any Means Necessary.

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