Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid

BTR News host Scotty Reid will moderate a community discussion on the issue of transgender women (male to female) in sports given that the US government seems poised to pass a law allowing transgender girls to participate in girl's sports leagues. Parents and community members are legitimately questioning whether or not trans girls have a physical advantage over cis girls in sports with trans girls becoming champions in their respective sports. What does the medical research on the topic reveal?

Malcolm X's Daughter Wants Schools to Teach That "American History Is Also Black History"! The daughter of the slain human rights activist Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz was recently featured on a GMA segment. Ms. Shabazz criticized the education system in the United States and she said "American History Is Black History".

BTR News welcomes author and activist Bernard Creamer Jr. to the show to discuss his book "WHO STOLE THE SOUL? THE WEAPONIZATION OF HIP HOP A Historical & Sociological Perspective".

Solitary confinement has for a while now, deemed an inhumane practice by the medical community that recognizes that it inflicts psychological damage on a human being that can lead to irreversible mental trauma.

BTR News hosted by Scotty T. Reid will continue to examine the fallout from the insurrectionist white power grab by Donald Trump and his supporters in Washington, DC last month. One of the things coming out is the large number of off-duty police officers who joined the DC insurrection and this may be why the DC Capitol police were perceived to be soft on Trump's supporters while being brutal to BLM protesters. The FBI is in the news after a researcher obtained FBI documents via an FOIA request that reveals the conspiracy between the FBI and Chicago Police to assassinate Fred Hampton in his sleep on Dec 4, 1969. After we examine what's in the news, we will be joined by columnist, cable pundit, and best-selling author Charles Blow to discuss what African Americans could be doing to mount a political power grab of their own by means of reverse migration to the South. Blow writes, "Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy, but to remove an existing one. After centuries of waiting for white majorities to overturn white supremacy, it seems to me that it has fallen to Black people to do it themselves." THE DEVIL YOU KNOW: A Black Power Manifesto By Charles M. Blow is published by HarperCollins and went on sale on January 26, 2021. BUY YOUR COPY NOW!

Gastonia, NC - It seems that a small rural county in North Carolina is gaining opposition to a proposed ordinance to require hundreds of dollars and fees and the personal information of any organizer in the county that calls for a protest. Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger worked with the Gaston County attorney Jonathan Sink to draft the ordinance and slip it in minutes before a scheduled county commissioner's meeting. Protest were called at the last minute by the founder of the Gaston County Freedom Fighters to assemble at the courthouse to oppose the proposed "Pay To Protest" ordinance.

Gaston Commissioner Chad Brown recently did a live FB video which has been deleted but in which he was whitewashing Trump's liability for the DC insurrection and instead, like Trump is oft to do, starting blaming the liberal media for spreading lies about the fateful event which claimed 5 lives and put members of the US Congress fleeing for their lives. #TellTheTruth

Donald J. Trump has become the first POTUS to be impeached twice. While some pundits on both the left and right will claim that the first impeachment was a witch hunt, I disagree, Trump was absolutely guilty of the charges that a formal House inquiry found evidence that he had solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid, and then obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony.

7:00 PM EST - Two activists from the Chicago area have been taking on the radio stations that play a type of rap that is known for its lyrics promoting acts of murder, rape, and misogyny to name a few.

Historians, should correct me if I am wrong about any points of U.S. history in thinking that part of the blame for the attack on the US capitol on January 6, 2021 is in part due to the actions and precedence set by Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson set in dealing with the treasonous ring leaders of the Confederacy.

By Scotty Reid - The fallout continues from the thus far failed coup attempt by Trump supporters in which more than 50 police officers were reportedly injured and 15 hospitalized in confrontations with several factions of groups that support Trump which he has used to threaten the U.S. public and elected officials across the nation with mob violence.

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Tonight on BTR News, Scotty will be joined in conversation around the COVID 19 mortality rates of Black men in the United States is Angel Fall, the host of Victims 2 Victorious also on the Black Talk Radio Network. Angel is a trained and experienced epidemiologist and is a good source of general information concerning the field of infectious diseases.

Call The Show! Dial-in number: 1 (626) 213-5779, 7:00 PM EST - Welcome to BTR News w/ Scotty Reid on The Black Talk Radio Network! Today's Date is December 30, 2020, and we invite you to tune in for the next 90 minutes of news, information, debate, your calls, and more...Happy Birthday to you if today is your born day, glad you're here!

BTR News On The Black Talk Radio Network! Today's Date is December 28, 2020, and we invite you to tune in for the next 90 minutes of news, information, debate, your calls, and more... COVID 19 Destroying Future Black Generations On the last broadcast, I was discussing the harm COVID 19 is doing to people worldwide and particularly vulnerable populations in the nation hardest hit by the disease, the United States. I discussed the irresponsibility with those who have been undemocratically appointed leaders in the Black community espousing harmful conspiratorial commentary that isn't based on medical science but rather on fear and paranoia about the vaccine more than the disease it is meant to prevent. An article on the topic of the COVID death rate in the African American community and the depopulation of a generation of young black men was recently published and is a good read. How many family and friends have you lost to the pandemic? An early December Pew Research survey was conducted to see what groups were likely to take the vaccine vs those unlikely to get it. Asian Americans and immigrants were the groups most likely to say they would receive the covid vaccine, Black Americans the unlikeliest. Now that thousands have received the vaccine with minimal side effects, will that sway any minds or no? Trump Signs COVID Legislation Without $2,000 Stimulus Checks True to his character, Trump plays games with people's lives and while pretending as he cared so much for the average families in the United States advocating for $1,400.00 more than the paltry $600 negotiated by the Trump administration, Republicans and Democrats. Trump threatened to veto the legislation over the issue but he signed it into law over the weekend. CNN reports on what is contained in the legislation. DNA Identified Suspect In The Nashville RV Bombing The thing that is odd to me about this story is that 63 yr old Anthony Quinn Warner, was allegedly concerned about the US government spying on US citizens over 5G wireless networks. I say it's odd because the US government has always spied on its citizens as technology has advanced so not sure what bombing one communication site is going to do to stop it? Surprise, Surprise, The CIA Running Death Squads In Afghanistan The head of the CIA, Gina Haspel made history as the first woman to lead the US agency that has shown that women in fact are no different than men when it comes to being brutal, murderous, and heavy-handed as news of CIA death squad operating in Afghanistan. Black Woman In Jail Could Have Been Another Breonna Taylar Luckily things did not play out as they did when St. Louis cops killed Breonna Taylor but they sure could have when Diamonds Ford, a 28 yr old Floridian found her home the target of a no-knock SWAT raid. Ford, and her fiance’ Anthony Gantt were asleep just like Taylor and her boyfriend when they were awakened by intruders, in Ford's case, the sound of glass shattering, her lawyer, Stephen Kelly, told News 4 JAX. He said she was unaware the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) was executing a high-risk search warrant when she shot her gun through a window in purported self-defense and hit an officer. It was only afterward when JSO identified itself, the 911 call shows.

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Have the victims of raced based slavery and their descendants made any progress towards producing justice?

BY Scotty T. Reid - The civil war within the Democratic Party is hot again, temporarily paused as various wings of the party sought to broker a rhetorical peace until after the 2020 election which Joe Biden won. It did not take long for the corporate wing of the party to fire the first shots in accusing the progressive Democrats, street activists, and organizers for causing corporate Democrats to lose congressionally. Congress Members House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-South Carolina), U.S. Representative Conor Lamb (D-Pennsylvania), and U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger of Virginia spoke out on a Democratic Caucus conference call on November 5th and blamed progressives for seats that were lost because of street slogans like “Defund The Police” and what they called “socialism” adopting right-wing attacks on popular legislation like Medicare For All. Compare and contrast the campaign messages of the corporate Democrats who lost their seats to Republicans with the messaging of the Progressive wing of the party which added members to its caucus. Progressive Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her reelection campaign by huge margins along with the other members of what became dubbed “The Squad”. Progressives also won seats in various states and incumbents like South Carolina’s US. Senator Lindsey Graham faced tough challenges from progressive Democrats. One is newly elected progressive, US Representative-elect Jamal Bowman, is weighing in with a rebuttal of former President Barack Obama who weighed in to push the corporate wing’s messaging in continuing to assert the debunked notion that corporate Democrats lost seats because of what activists in the streets or candidates in other states were saying and not based on the campaign messaging of the candidates who lost. Barack Obama, on the issue of reforming the police budget that the streets refer to as Defunding The Police”, Obama is quoted as saying you lose people (voters) with “snappy” slogans like “defund the police”. The Hill reports Obama told Peter Hamby, who hosts a Snapchat political show called “Good Luck America,” that those who use the slogan could jeopardize their goals of enacting meaningful reforms for police. "You lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you're actually going to get the changes you want done," the former president said in the interview that occurred on Wednesday of this week. On Twitter, Bowman replied to these statements and said, “Damn, Mr. President. Didn’t you say “Trayvon could’ve been my son?” In 2014, #BlackLivesMatter was too much. In 2016, Kaepernick was too much. Today, discussing police budgets is too much. The problem is America's comfort with Black death -- not discomfort with slogans.” Listen, I get what Obama is saying about choosing words carefully, and how slogans can sometimes be vague and open to interpretation by the public or purposely misinterpreted by those opposed to any kind of reforms whatsoever but this is not the context in which he is making his statement but rather speaking in the context of making excuses and unfounded allegations against progressives in explaining away to corporate donors as to why corporate Democrats lost to Republicans. Those corporate Democrats had every opportunity to state what their positions were on police brutality and reforms and they did and they lost, end of the story. A new generational movement for social justice is happening in the United States and it could be that corporate so-called moderate Democrats are not inspiring new voters to turn out for them by playing middle of the road politics on social justice issues and healthcare. Standing alone as issues, Medicare For All shows Poll after poll finds that Medicare for All is supported by the vast majority of Democrats, many Independents, and even a substantial number of Republicans. Even when battle-tested using biased attacks on “Medicare for All”, the support remains consistent. The truce is definitely over between the corporate and progressive Democrats and based on the recent interview given by Joe Biden, he knows that his administration is going to be pushed hard for long-delayed progressive policies and programs. Biden said lobbying is what those with a special interest are supposed to do and he invited activists to push him on the policy. However, disingenuous commentary in accusing progressive of costing the Democratic party seats is not going to do anything but inflame the discourse. You Can Support BTR News & the entire Black Talk Radio Network Today By Making A Financial Contribution To The Non-Profit Black Talk Media Project. Click Here To Donate! Checks or M/Os made out to Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065 Cash App: $BTMProject

Gaston County Board Chair revises history and his behavior since the start of the COVID pandemic in the county which took hold in the first quarter of 2020.

Ice Cube wants you to dip into your pocket and spend hard-earned dollars on some conservation effort in Scotland with an appeal to your vanity.

Cases covid are skyrocketing in no small part to the lack of leadership of Donald J Trump and a lot of people are simply noting taking the pandemic seriously.

In this episode, BTR News hosts a discussion led by a friend of the show Kwabena Rasuli of the activist collective Clear The Airwaves Project which works to enforce FCC guidelines on urban programming.

A meme circulating on the internet implies that the late artist Prince suggested people should not vote and nothing ever changes by voting. Is this an accurate quote being attributed to Prince or is it just part of the disinformation campaign targeting Black voters?

Black voters are taking note of the type of black people who have endorsed on of the most incompetent anti-black candidates in recent US election history.

In what some of us see as hypocrisy, Hillary Clinton joins the electoral college despite a movement on the left to abolish it. Is it only super-wealthy people, how do you get picked?

Tonight, October 27, 2020, is a Gaston County Commissioner’s meetings which I have been attending every other week as they are held, since becoming part of organized opposition to a Neo-Confederate statute in front of the courthouse, and institutional racism in general.

Before going into the issues concerning abolishing the police, abolishing prisons, and the incorrect conclusion that policing and prisons are rooted in White Supremacy, let's give Colin Kaepernick his due and recognize his sacrifice to elevate a nation's consciousness on matters of the intersection of race and the police state.

Once again Donald Trump is displaying irrational behavior as it relates to his becoming infected with COVID 19.

After reportedly contracting COVID-19, if Trump dies then he dies and his supporters will have no one to blame but the Trump administration, and it's likely that he contracted the virus during one of several campaign events where guidelines on wearing masks and social distancing were ignored as some kind of fringe political statement.

BTR News with Scotty Reid walks through the documented timeline of the killing of 24 yr old US citizen Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky on March 23, 2020, by narcotics officers enforcing a decades-old drug war that has claimed perhaps thousands of lives by law enforcement officers kicking down doors in the middle of the night with the controversial no-knock warrants.

Benjamin Lloyd Crump is a US attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases. It seems that his law firm is the popular choice when it comes to families who have suffered civil rights violations by government employees. He is frequently a media guest when it comes to commentary surrounding police shooting case.

BTR News Tonight with Scotty Reid will take a look at news from around the world tonight including another deadly use of excessive force by LA Sherrif's deputies.

BTR News continues its local coverage of events that have transpired since the murder of George Floyd to include the reoccurring issue of promoting white supremacy via a Gaston County-owned neo-confederate monument being displayed in front of the county courthouse. We will hear from one of those who have been on the frontlines of social justice protests in Gaston County and attended Gaston County commissioner meetings.

Recap of the latest events in covering the issue of the removal of a confederate idol perched high in the air in front of the Gaston County, NC courthouse.

On this broadcast of BTR News w/ Scotty Reid, Scotty gives an update and accurate information concerning the new resolution to be voted on by the Gaston County Commissioners at the Aug 25th Tuesday night meeting. The resolution was introduced by confederate sympathizers on the county board, Chad Brown and Jack Brown.

Scotty Reid of the East Gaston Coalition For Freedom & Justice co-founder, the host of BTR News shares his thoughts on recent events concerning the movement for justice that has arisen in Gaston County, NC.

BTR News = The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the world's leading Mental Health Industry Watchdog, is responsible for helping enact more than 180 worldwide reforms that protect the public from abuses committed under the guise of mental health. Joining BTR News is the Public Affairs Director of the organization, Reverend Fred Shaw Jr. to discuss the current “Medical Model” of racism in modern-day society.

A Clay County, Florida Sherriff in all his thuggish bravado issued threats to non-existent protestors because of what he has seen on cable news shows. In a video complete with background music and his deputies standing behind him, Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels said that if people want to come from out of town and engage in unlawful protests, he will deputize every gun owner in the county. Considering there have been no protests and no intelligence that the Sherriff mentioned that caused him to make such a thuggish and almost cartoonish video, he might have done so to distract from the criminal investigation into him having his deputies unlawfully detain a woman whom with he was having an affair. The investigation has concluded and the initial report turned over to a States Attorney to consider charges. The Black Talk Radio Network was ranked #1 in Black digital radio and audio podcasts by Feedspot in 2019 and 2020. Donate via Paypal with or without a Paypal account: https://www.blacktalkradionetwork.com/linkout/35245 Check or M/O: Black Talk Media Project, PO Box 65, Mt. Holly, NC 28120-0065 Cash App $BTMProject

If these people engaging in what aboutism concerning violence in Chicago, then they should join the movement to clear the airwaves and they should financially support organizations working to solve the problem of gun violence.

A conversation with Afro-Carolinian William Barnette about police violence, corporations, and their superficial changes to update their "values" and de-funding the police.

Discussing this BS "committee of understanding" proposed by Gaston County Commissioner Philbeck that's to bring together people who want to practice justice in removing a racist symbol from the Gaston County courthouse courtyard and those who want to keep practicing racism.

In this episode of BTR News, we will take a look at the case of Jamrion Robinson who was brutality shot and killed by an apparent police lynch mob involving several law enforcement agencies in the state of Georgia in 2016. We spoke with Monteria Robinson about her son's killing by police that she characterized as murder as she continues to seek justice.

In this episode of BTR News w/ Scotty Reid, Scotty takes a look at a press release which was issued on behalf of Entrepreneur Solomon Ali, an African-American businessman who alleges he is the target of a racist attack in the form of complaint against him filed by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Details of the SEC complaint were not included in the press release. Mr. Ali's story does raise some eyebrows but not in the way it might have been intended.

Join Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid, Time For An Awakening Media Founder Elliot Booker, and his co-host of Time For An Awakening radio program Richard White as they discuss the open forum from earlier today with the African Union Deputy Commissioner Hon. Nii Kwesi Quartey, Deputy Chair of the AU Commission.

Confederate monuments are coming down and racists don't like but we are not concerned with their feelings. Learn about Jury Nullification and set the protesters free.

In this episode of Black Talk Radio News, Scotty delves into the controversy surrounding the removal of tacky, trashy and terroristic confederate monuments being vandalized, pulled down, or removed. The controversy isn't that racist suspects are defending these false idols but that some Black people are defending them even if they don't think that is what they are doing. Its madness!

In this episode of The Founder's Soap Box, Scotty Reid shares thoughts from a conversation with a network member concerning ad revenue from Black Businesses or any business for that matter. Also, thoughts on how to share more information about the reach of our media operations.

This is a message to the Gaston County Commissioners concerning the confederate monument sitting in front of the Gaston County Courthouse in North Carolina.

In this episode of BTR News, Scotty shares his thoughts on the anti-revolutionary propaganda by people who devalue the struggle for justice in the streets in the wake of the high profile killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.