Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid

BTR News – African Sources Reporting On New COVID Variant

As vaccine hesitancy persists in Africa and the African Diaspora, with confirmed cases on the rise, we have African sources reporting a new emerging variant of Corona Virus 19.

BTR News – Indonesian Radio Regulatory Body Does What The FCC Refuses To Do

Clear The Airwaves Project's Kwabena Rasuli joins BTR News to discuss the news related to the Indonesian radio broadcasting regulatory body restricting music that promotes violence and immorality to the hours after 10 pm.

BTR News – Black Fathers FB Group Censures Posts About Racism

For a few months I have been a member of a FB group for Black Fathers and being that I have played a role in raising three daughters who have children of their own, I thought I might have something to offer the younger Black dads.

BTR News – BTMP’s Statement On Byron Allen’s Latest Media Acquisition

Byron Allen is back in the news making headlines again after his failed lawsuit against Comcast in the not-so-distant past.

BTR News – Can A Black Woman Like Candace Owens Be Racist?

Conservative operative Candace Owens is playing the race card after the CEO of the American Booksellers Association apologized for promoting Owens’s book “Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation.”
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BTR News – Discussing The Accurate Version of the Legacy of King Mansa Musa w/ Historian Siphiwe Baleka

Siphiwe Baleka has led a very interesting life that took him from his North Carolina community to HBCU Fisk University, the US Olympic Swim Trials, Yale University and was part of both the civil rights movement and the black liberation struggle in his community.
Siphiwe Balek was mentored by George Edwards of the New Haven Black Panther Party and began to organize and raise money for Black Panther political prisoners, and started working with the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal and the MOVE Organization. He is also a member of NCOBRA and a documentarian. He will be joining us today to discuss Mansa Musa from the perspective of the oppressed people under his rule.
Read: THE MALI KINGDOM AND MANSA MUSA WERE IMPERIALIST SLAVE TRADERS: REVISITING AFRICAN HISTORY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE OPPRESSED
Siphiwe Baleka Bio:
"Today, Siphiwe Baleka is known as “The Fitness Guru to the Trucking Industry” and has appeared in Men’s Health magazine, Sports Illustrated, the Huffington Post, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, NPR, CNN, and BBC. He serves as the North American Regional Director of the African Sports Ventures Group, Senior Heritage Ambassador of the United House of Ancestry, and President of the Balanta B’urassa History & Genealogy Society of America. He is instrumental in launching the Decade of Return Initiative of the Government of Guinea Bissau." - Read more

BTR News – Afro-Christophobia: Feedback On The Black Attack On Black Identified Christians

This episode of BTR News will revisit the BTR News podcast – The Willie Lynch Letter & The Black Attack On Black Identified Christians and try to address issues brought up by audience members concerning it. 

BTR News – The Willie Lynch Letter Exposed: Subscribers Feedback & Questions

Welcome to this episode of BTR News with Scotty Reid, broadcasting from behind the enemy lines of USA Inc. As I said I would at the conclusion of the episode titled BTR News – The Willie Lynch Letter & The Black Attack On Black Identified Christians I will be sharing and responding to subscriber's comments.

BTR News – Ghanaian Prince Was Sold Into Slavery, Still Became A Slaver

In a follow up to the last podcast, “Mali’s King Mansa Musa Was A Wealthy Slaver”, coincidently or by providence, a friend on Facebook shared an article published in 2018 by Face2FaceAfrica about a Ghanaian Prince sold into slavery in the 1700s after his father entrusted him to the captain of a slaver’s ship to transport him to England to study but instead was sold into slavery.

BTR News – Trigger Warning: Mali’s King Mansa Musa Was A Wealthy Slaver

Recently I came across a meme featuring Malian King Mansa Musa and how a person wanted to see a film about the man who was deemed to be one of the wealthiest men who ever lived who gave so much gold away in Egypt on his famous trek in Africa, that it caused the gold markets to crash.
I was first introduced to King Mansa Musa back in high school in the ’80s when I saw one of those Budweiser marketing displays about the “Great Kings and Queens of Africa” in a bar that I was not to supposed to be in. I didn’t think anything of it other than cool, an African King. It was later when one of the former podcasters I knew used an image of Musa as his cover art. The show was in part about generating wealth. I then decided to look up information on King Musa and discovered he enslaved people and being a modern slavery abolitionist, I questioned the choice.
So coming across the meme armed with the information I had learned previously, I simply stated a fact which was that his wealth was acquired from gold mines worked by victims of slavery and that his “flossing” or “showing off” his wealth, put a target on Africa which brought more and more Arabs and Europeans to Africa.
Therefore in my own meme, in the description I wrote that I would like to see the film as well, but only if it is historically accurate. This resulted in some pushback which I will share on this podcast including the research by Balanta scholar by the name of Siphiwe Baleka who formerly identified as African American or Black.
Source Material: THE MALI KINGDOM AND MANSA MUSA WERE IMPERIALIST SLAVE TRADERS: REVISITING AFRICAN HISTORY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE OPPRESSED
https://www.balanta.org/history/the-mali-kingdom-was-imperialist-revisiting-african-history-from-the-point-of-view-of-the-people-who-were-oppressed#
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