Racism is dear as hell
In any case that yakkity-dock about saving the nation from “them illegals,” ICE efforts are being uncovered because the very factor the Black Press mentioned they have been—institutionalized and militarized anti-Blackness and anti-Brownness. They usually’re costing us, taxpayers, a reasonably ugly penny. The Minnesota ICE operation alone paints the image. That operation resulted in 4,000 detainees. At the price of roughly $70,000 per detainee, taxpayers spent $280,000,000 on this insanity. By the way in which, of these 4,000 detainees, solely 14% (560) had felony data. And most of these have been for minor infractions like working a cease signal or dashing. Of the 560 with felony data, some experiences say that possibly 30 of them have been accused of violent crimes or dealing medication. So, a $280,000,000 invoice paid by me and also you to terrorize a whole metropolis to detain “possibly” 30 people accused of committing a criminal offense. (i.e., lower than 1% of the 4,000 detained). The Trump Administration’s “Non-Variety, Inequity, and Exclusion” (N-DIE), already a morally bankrupt initiative, will bankrupt this nation financially if not stopped.
Help the Black Press
For 199 years, the Black Press has instructed our story, chronicled our historical past, and interpreted world happenings from our perspective. A perspective that is still absent to today from the so-called “mainstream” media. That’s why it’s past heartbreaking to see Black-owned media retailers shuttering their doorways. However on Feb. 12, a type of publications, The Richmond Free Press, introduced it should stop publication after greater than 30 years in enterprise. The free weekly newspaper, which targeted totally on Richmond’s African American neighborhood, was based in 1992 by veteran journalist, editor, and professor Raymond Boone and his spouse, Jean Patterson Boone. “Thanks for being a part of our journey as we persevered by harsh financial occasions,” wrote Jean Boone to Richmond Press readers. “All goodbyes are usually not without end. And this can be. Or not. We all know for certain that we do not need the promoting assist to proceed.” And it’s that final line that’s the killer. As a lot as companies in U.S. cities rely on the monetary assist of Blackfolk, you’d assume Black media retailers would have their decide of advertisers. Not so. We on the Defender know this actuality firsthand. The Defender is experiencing the identical challenges. We’re bored with seeing our fellow Black media retailers shut when the work they (we) do is much more very important at present than ever earlier than. So, should you (readers, neighborhood members, company Houston) recognize the educating, entertaining, and empowering work produced by the Defender, present your assist by making a monetary contribution or by committing to promote to one of many nation’s largest African American populations. Right here’s the QR code. You understand what to do.
State-run media?
One of many tried-and-true strikes within the dictator’s playbook is to regulate info. That is accomplished by attacking and/or silencing college students, banning books, and destroying the free press (arresting journalists, and so on.), then changing it with state-run media. Dictators are empowered by an uninformed citizenry. I thought of this once more after I not too long ago found that Gallup, which has been accountable for the official Presidential Approval Ranking for 88 years, introduced it might not produce that info. This announcement comes on the heels of the December 2025 report, which confirmed Donald Trump’s approval score at 36%, the bottom recorded in polling historical past. That transfer was pure Trump. On Aug. 1, 2025, he fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the company issued a jobs (non) progress report that wasn’t to Trump’s liking. He additionally shut down reporting on civil rights violations and racial discrimination, and the nationwide police misconduct database. He even sued a number of main TV and print information retailers into relative submission for reporting issues he didn’t like. Mixed, these strikes create a scenario the place practically all info (information and scholarly analysis) comes from an administration with an aggressively anti-Black, anti-women, anti-science, anti-democracy slant. Lord, Lord, we want Black-owned media now greater than ever.
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