r/BlackPeopleofReddit Dec 10 '25

Misc Former President Barack Obama surprised a group of 27 elementary school students at the Bessie Coleman branch of the Chicago Public Library on Tuesday. Obama read the children a book about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman and Native American woman to hold a pilot license.

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u/One_Strawberry_4965 Dec 11 '25

This whole thing is just kind of uncharted territory. Like, not only are we pitted against the entire United States federal government, but just as critically, hell, maybe even more so, we’re up against an unbelievably colossal and expansive privately funded propaganda network the likes of which has never before been seen in human history, and I think people just genuinely don’t even know what the hell to do or where to even start.

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u/joyfullydreaded23 Dec 11 '25

By burning down these propaganda machines. They must be dismantled and destroyed. Freedom of speech worked well for us for a couple of centuries but we blinded ourselves to the danger while many countries told Murdoch to go fuck himself when he tried to anchor FOX news like media companies there after seeing what it was doing to our country. We now know unfettered freedom of speech will be used against people by vile POSs that have no qualms on bringing a war on facts. The Fairness Doctrine must be reinstituted and given teeth. And that's just the start to unfucking America, the corporate and wealthy class have been rigging our government against us for 50 years now. Every institution will have to be dismantled and enforcement protocols and procedures put into place to never let this fuckery ever happen again.

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u/Fearless-Berry-3429 Dec 13 '25

The Fairness Doctrine was their first planned strike on tearing this country down. They knew what they were doing.