When They See Us!
from Black Politics Today Hosted by Black Politics Today
With the pure unadulterated police misconduct and racist behavior of everyone involved in the case, that the film “When They See Us” exposed, to the current days voter suppression, police unarmed shootings of black men and women, to the lengths in prison sentencing that African-Americans are still suffering from, to the news coverage that our black and brown presidential hopefuls get from mainstream media and even Black media, is a castration of the Black influence on this nations social, economic, and political infrastructure, and it must be addresses and resolved even within the Democratic party. My first guest is an Iraqi immigrant. He came to America in 1966 with his parents, His father was the Ambassador of the Arab League until Sadaam Hussien took over Iraq. He is an Iraqi-American artist, activist and entrepreneur. He is best known as an philanthropist, and proprietor of the restaurant, bookstore, performance venue chain, for which we currently sit and broadcast LIVE from, Busboys and Poets. Also joining us,is business owner, construction developer, 2 term and First African-American Mayor of Miramar, Florida and 2020 Presidential candidate, Mayor Wayne Messam. Tune in.
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