Civil Rights Institute Rescinds Angela Davis Honor

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    The Jewish community strikes again. 1st Mark Lamont Hill now Angela Davis? Yeah I know only @Rico will respond but so.



    Thankfully this anti-first amendment Republican bullshit is headed to court and hopefully to the Supreme Court. Kinda pissed more Black people have not been vocal against this. Maybe if a Kardashian or Rihanna would post something on their IG account??
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    Arkansas law requiring state contractors pledge not to boycott Israel has court challenge

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    Jan. 4, 2019, 9:43 PM EST
    By Associated Press

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Attorneys for an Arkansas newspaper asked a federal judge Friday to block a law requiring that contractors pledge not to boycott Israel, saying it forces businesses to give up their free speech rights in order to receive state money.

    U.S. District Judge Brian Miller heard arguments in the Arkansas Times' lawsuit challenging the state's 2017 anti-boycott law. Miller said he hoped to rule soon on whether to block the law, which the Times and the American Civil Liberties Union argue is unconstitutional. The law requires contractors to reduce their fees by 20 percent if they don't sign the pledge.

    The Times' lawsuit says the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College refused to contract for advertising with the newspaper unless the Arkansas Times signed the pledge. The paper isn't engaged in a boycott against Israel.

    "It makes the plaintiff endorse the idea that the government can make an individual take a political position as a condition of getting money," Bettina Brownstein, an attorney for the ACLU of Arkansas, told Miller.

    The state has argued that a boycott isn't constitutionally protected speech, and that the pledge doesn't force the Times to take a political position.

    "It simply certifies a factual statement about whether or not the Times intends to boycott," Assistant Solicitor General Dylan Jacobs said.

    Arkansas' law is similar to restrictions enacted in other states that have been challenged. The measures are aimed at a movement protesting Israel's policies toward Palestinians.

    A federal judge in September blocked Arizona from enforcing a similar measure. A federal judge also blocked Kansas from enforcing its anti-boycott measure, but lawmakers rewrote the measure so that it no longer applied to individuals and nonprofits and only applied to state contracts worth $100,000 or more. Arkansas' law applies to contracts worth $1,000 or more.

    A federal lawsuit was filed last month against a similar law in Texas.
     
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    Why you single me out @OckyDub ? Lol. Jk

    Hopefully, this is overturned by the appeal courts for 1st amendment purposes. There’s two things going on here; one is the friction between blacks and Jews, which goes back a few decades. On one hand, many American Jewish communities have been instrumental as civil rights allies, but friction increases when divergent cultural and political issues like affirmative action, school choice, unions, etc. are involved.

    The second issue is Israel and its policies, which go beyond Palestine. This is how Dr. Davis got drawn into this (along with Alice Walker). Israel was a strong supporter of the Apartheid South African white government decades back during the Cold War, which generated a lot of animosity among the black left and African intellectuals.

    A lot of the CA squad are under 35, so they’ve never known a time when South Africa wasn’t (officially at least) a black majority run nation, or around to remember when the late Nelson Mandela was politically imprisoned for 25 years. For example, when Michael Jackson was doing “We are the World” charity single there was another multi-artist charity single that year that was downplayed by the media, organized by actor/musician Steven Van Zandt (of Bruce Springsteen and “The Sopranos”) to highlight anti-Apartheid protests, United Artists Against Apartheid (Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Run DMC, Hall and Oates, Kurtis Blow, U2, Pat Bentar, Grandmaster Flash, Bonnie Raitt, The Ramones, George Clinton and a shitload of other artists). You never hear this racial history mentioned on VH1 music specials



    Angela Davis comes out of that era. Also, the white right in America are allied with Israel for racial reasons, not necessarily religious or historic ones (such as the need for a Jewish state, post-Holocaust). Thus the whole thing of foighting campuses and college students that call for divestment from Israel for its treatment of Palestinians, which some compare to treatment of blacks in South Africa and under Jim Crow and colonialism.

    Regardless, our resident scholar @machoBLKnerd is more familiar with the material I would usually encourage CA younguns to read, such as Harold Cruse’s “Crisis of the Negro Intellectual” and “Plural But Equal” to understand the black/Jewish thing; he might have other suggestions. Avoid at all costs, though, any black-Jewish bullshit writings or speeches from Farrakhan or other black hoteps who are nothing more than wannabe-nigga-MAGA-klansmen.
     
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    See, that’s why I’m generally libertarian about govt involvement (especially funding) in arts (BCRI is affiliated with the Smithsonian). Some political or religious person is always going to be butt hurt about someone else’s selection. If it’s not racial, like in this Davis case, it’s something else (Jesse Helms and his quest against Robert Mapplethorpe and Marlon Riggs). My hometown just passed a mandatory art tax in the city, controlled by a majority white body, so you know what artists will be left out of funding.

    Art and government need separation just religion...

    Also, another case of why we need separate, independent black institutions. When your funding comes from outside your community, “he who pays the piper...”. Imagine black folk having a similar effect on choices by Jewish organizations (you can’t because we don’t wield that kind of institutional influence and power). Niggas can fund arts and orgs. When I see all kinds of mofo spending gobs of money in my Chicago neighborhood (Obama’s pre-presidential hood) on fucking lottery tickets, don’t tell me we don’t have money for black org support...
     
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