[EP. 76] They [don't] Like Us (with Mike Africa Jr.)

In 1985, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the radical, Black-led environmental organization MOVE, it was just one of the three historical instances in which the U.S. government dropped a bomb on its citizens.

May 13, 2025 marks 40 years since that instance of state-sanctioned terror perpetuated by the city's first Black mayor, Wilson Goode, with the support of the Philadelphia Police Department, and residents indifferent to Black life. Once again on the show, Mike Africa Jr. joins to reflect on what acknowledgement of that horrific event nearly half a century later even means. The observance of 40 years will be held at the site of the bombing on Osage Avenue, May 13th at 5pm.

Also on the show, Kensington's opioid crisis continues with outrage over the latest of the city's efforts to contain the issue. And Trump's regime declares that U.S. citizens will be next in the deportation shipments to El Salvador and elsewhere . Tap in.

FACT CHECK:

In 1921: Militant coal miners in the midst of a labor dispute in West Virginia were bombed under the order of President Harding to quell the union uprising.

In 1950: The U.S. Air Force in conjunction with Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marín and and the Puerto Rican National Guard bombing neighboring towns of Jayuya and Utuado in order to kill the Puerto Rican independence movement perpetuated by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.

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