The Politicrat

Last night the BET Awards 2020 were a stunning and uplifting tribute to Blackness, Black excellence and Black Lives Matter. Omar Moore looks back at the night including the ads that were shown in commercial breaks and asks: are corporations appropriating Black Lives Matter? What do you think? June 29, 2020. Please check your voter registration weekly through October. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bl...

A look at moments of activism in the LGBTQIA community in the U.S. beginning with the Stonewall Uprising in New York City in 1969. On this Pride Day 2020 Omar Moore takes a look at the continuing activism of gay and trans people in this straight and homophobic world. Features audio from Marsha P. Johnson, Janet Mock, Harvey Milk, James Baldwin and other people you may recognize. June 28, 2020. Ple...

Omar Moore takes a closer look at The Lincoln Project and some of the people behind it. What is the agenda of The Lincoln Project beyond its highly successful anti-Donald Trump ads and its desire to unseat Trump at the ballot box on November 3? Listen on. June 27, 2020. Please check your voter registration weekly through October. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju) Check your vote...

A look at the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, which passed in the House last night. The Act passed 236-181. Audio of some of the speeches on the House floor. And: In England, Liverpool Football Club win the Premier League, the first top-flight title they have won in 30 years. Omar Moore looks at these two very different events. June 26, 2020. Please check your voter registration weekly throu...

A conversation with investigative reporter Greg Palast on voting in the USA, vote stealing by the Republican Party of predominantly Black voters as well as Latino, Asian and elderly voters. Greg also offers an important plan for voters to implement now ahead of the November general election. Greg’s new book “How Trump Stole 2020” is available everywhere on July 14. June 25, 2020. Please check your...

An illuminating conversation with the pre-eminent anti-racist educator Jane Elliott, who began teaching anti-racism in 1968 in the state of Iowa to white third-graders the day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Omar Moore and Jane Elliott engage in a very important conversation about whiteness, racism, Donald Trump, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and the miseducation of an ent...

A look at some of the backlash of racism from some white people to the Black Lives Matter movement. Omar Moore also looks at some white people on television who are at least beginning to struggle with their own discomfort around their own personal position regarding racism. And: it’s Election Day in Kentucky, New York and Virginia. June 23, 2020. Please check your voter registration weekly through...

Former U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice should be (and will be) the running mate of Joe Biden, according to Omar Moore, who has done an about face on his previous prediction of Biden’s VP pick. Also in this episode: news headlines from the weekend and the importance of registering to vote, telling others to register to vote and checking your registration weekly through October. June 22, 2...

A look at what Korematsu v US led to, and how Trump v. Hawaii (2018) shows how little has changed where race and racism cases in the U.S. Supreme Court (Brown v. Bd Of Ed, 1954) not withstanding, are concerned. Omar Moore travels through periods of American history via the U.S. Supreme Court. June 21, 2020. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju) Check your voter registration and regi...

U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has had a history of covering up for Republican administrations engaged in criminal activity. Omar Moore chronicles some of Barr’s obstructions of justice, and the attempted firing of Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District Of New York. (Hint: Berman wasn’t having it.) June 20, 2020. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju) Check your...

On this 155th Juneteenth Omar Moore looks at the origins of this very special occasion in the U.S. Also: a look at the critical figures of American history that preceded and brought about the Emancipation Proclamation, Juneteenth and the abolition of slavery. Key figures: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Nat Turner. June 19, 2020. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/...

Rayshard Brooks wanted to live. Garrett Rolfe didn’t want him to. Where are the good cops in the USA? Omar Moore wants to know. Plus: A look at Wednesday’s forensic press conference by Paul Howard, the Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney. June 18, 2020. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju) Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, wh...

Five years ago tonight Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Rev. Depayne Middleton Doctor, Myra Thompson, Tywanza Sanders, Cynthia Hurd, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson and Ethel Lance were murdered inside Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Omar Moore looks at the lives of these nine souls. June 17, 2020. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju) Check y...

After three Black men are found hanging in California and New York City in an 11-day stretch (May 31-June 10 2020) Omar Moore asks are these really hangings? Or are they lynchings? June 16, 2020. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju) Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, whenweallvote.org. MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On M...

Questions for the police killers of Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd. Omar Moore asks the questions. Contains audio clips of the family of Mr. Brooks. June 15, 2020. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju) Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, whenweallvote.org. MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com...

Rayshard Brooks, RIP. He was 27. Murdered by police in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, June 12, 2020. He should still be here. Omar Moore talks about Mr. Brooks and why change hasn’t truly begun yet when it comes to policing and justice in the U.S. June 14, 2020. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju) Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, w...

On the 100th episode! of The Politicrat podcast, a look at the media sanitizing of the violence by racist white men who were also Nazi saluting in London today. Omar Moore takes a closer look at the media sanitizing or largely omitting video of violence by police and white racists from their TV broadcasts. (You can see all the videos on social media.) Why is the UK and US cable news media in parti...

While some institutions are responding to the millions of Black, Brown, white, Native and Asian demands for justice and systemic overhaul and change, Omar Moore asks: what will the average white person do on November 3? Will it be Biden or Trump? (In 2016 65 percent of white men/53 percent of white women voted for Trump.) June 12, 2020. Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju) Check yo...

A look at voting in the U.S., from the 1960s through 2020, Republican vote-stealing and what you can do to combat this. Omar Moore also reviews Spike Lee’s new film “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/3fknUkZ) June 11, 2020. Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, whenweallvote.org. MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politi...

Shaista Aziz, the Oxford, England Councillor for Labour and racial justice advocate, speaks to Omar Moore about the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK and the removal of statues of colonialist, imperialist enslavers and white racists in England and elsewhere in the UK. June 10, 2020. Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, whenweallvote.org. MOORE T...

George Floyd was a human being. Omar Moore looks at Mr. Floyd’s life as he goes home today in Houston, Texas. June 9, 2020. Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, whenweallvote.org. MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog...

Why are so many Americans hesitant to use or talk about fascism in the United States, especially when it is obvious that fascism has been a staple of the United States for many a year? Omar Moore examines fascism in the United States at least from the 1930s to Donald Trump. June 8, 2020. Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, whenweallvote.org. MOORE...

The need to eradicate systems that harm Black Lives must be the next focus of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protest movement that has gone global once again in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Omar Moore suggests a way forward and looks at voting in certain states (Alabama to Arkansas) and what you must do this November. Also: Voting strategically, and tips for Bernie Sanders supporters who hav...

In this episode Omar Moore reads out just a partial list of the names of many Black people in the U.S. who have been killed by police. Some names you will recognize. Many you will likely have never heard of. There is mention of the circumstances in which some of these lives were cruelly taken by police violence. Includes an audio clip of Malcolm X. We must have justice. #BlackLivesMatter June 6, 2...

A closer look at the fascism and dictatorial and authoritarian behavior of Donald Trump just this week alone, and a strong warning for Americans: this is SERIOUS. Take heed. Beware. Omar Moore on all of this and more. The United States of America you have known may be coming to an end. Plan to vote this November 3. June 5, 2020. Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com,...