Afrosphere's Black Accused Support Groups

The Afrosphear's Black Accused Support Coalition invites you to join them in their fight against injustice in the criminal justice system. Look for the icon in support of the BASC and contact its members.


The Afrosphere invites individuals to join the Afrosphere's Black Accused Support Groups (BASG), which is a national union of the blogs set up for Black people seeking justice from the American criminal (in)justice system.

Black Accused Support Groups blogs are interlinked across America to provide support, lay advice and information to Black accuseds, victims of criminal system injustice, their families, friends and communities. When Blacks demand justice, we speak not as isolated individuals; we speak as "One Nation Under and AfroSpear."

The way to start a local Black Accused Support Group (BASG) within the Afrosphere is to (1) start a Black blog that tells the history of one or more accused Black people. (2)Include within that blog a “Welcome to the Afrosphere” list of Afrosphere blogs, (3) using the AfroSpear icon in the Blog layout to identify this blog as part of the Afrosphere and part of the International Black Accused Support Group Coalition. (4)Advocates who do not know how to start a blog can request help from any member of the Afrosphere and receive immediate assistance and directions for starting a BASG blog.

The issues raised and advocacy raised in these independent BASC blogs will likely receive spontaneous or organized support in the Afrosphere consistent with the compelling nature of the case and the effectiveness of the presentation made in the BASC blog.

Because Afrosphere blogs are independent and spontaneously organized, all Black people have an opportunity to present their case to the nation that there is a Black person wrongly accused or unjustly sentenced.

The BASG’s can be another way to help stop urban violence, uniting the families of warring factions behind the common goal of freeing those community members who have been imprisoned and preventing others who are currently defendants from receiving unjust and excessive convictions and sentences. BASG can advocate for increased funding for alternative sentencing modalities, like drug and alcohol treatment and accused participation in BASG support groups.

Do you know someone who needs BASC help? If so, pass this information to them or their group immediately!

Afrospear

A national dialogue on race was to take place after Don Imus and Bernand McQuirk frothing at the mouth about the Rutger's Women Basketball team. However, in the Afrospear the dialogue has stepped over the two personalities who spewed the negative labels in describing the young college women. Afrospear is reaching for a higher ground.

Afrospear appears to be focused on the marketing of the war of words, hos and bitches and nappy head. Those who are spewing the negative message about women are only playing to the money. Young folks who have a talent for twisting, shaping lyrics may not have other opportunities appears to be the sentiments in the Afrospear. So joining the crowd to point fingers at the young cats is misdirected. Matter of fact, the Afrospear warns that we are playing right into the hands of the fat cats. We need to go to the root of the problem.

This is not to say that Afrospear is totally forgiving of the actions by folks who make noises that degrade women. But the Afrospear does not want readers to waste energy trying to separate one talent from the other talent because of inappropriate language. Instead put the spotlight on exactly who or what is exactly too blame for encouraging the inappropriate language. And that would be the airwaves, producers, and distributors of the noise. The paper trail is the source, the fat cats in the media. Artists are switched at the rate of a dime a dozen.

You can listen in some of the debate by going to : freeslave and his comment section on Hip Hop, Temple 3 gives some back ground on getting a clue on what is hip hop, rap and sexual healing music. Exodus Mentality is providing some examples of stuff we bob our head too, that just may contain words that we would not bob our heads too. EM expresses some concerns that a few artists are allowed to define millions and millions of other folks. Bronze Trinity is scanning the area for some good stuff after she created a petition affirming the commitment to hold our own accountable. Thanks to Bronze Trinity, a young blogger from Canada, has collected all the pages of the Afrospear members and placed them in a newsreader. Right here you can now read what each of the Afrospear members are saying and then some.

Update: African American Political Pundit and African American (Black) Opinion keeps us connected with our collective opinions. I would like to point our another resource, Afronary.com as another positive brother.

Afrospear-Ready for a brand new beat

I did it. The it is on my sidebar. I became a member of the afrospear. Names. Call it what you may, blackosphere/afrosphere/African-Americanosphere... But, I got my afrospear.

The symbol represents a concern many share in the blogosphere. Different concerns, but a common theme, a divide in the community.

I was concerned about the lack of African-American male bloggers in responses to Shaquanda Cotton. Of course, there were a few, but many where not presence on the site created for Free Shaquanda Cotton. No problem, just an insight.

So now I get to participate in the Afrospear challenge as it brings its movement. I read much of the material that has been posted on some of the sites. So, I am going to say, I think that many of the great minds will have an impact..the legal, the scholars. I believe they can explain legislations that are having a negative impact on our families in the prison system. I believe that Afrospear can help draft legislation to make changes. A grassroot net that must reach beyond the keyboard.

I find the creation of blogs troublesome. Simply because many who need the service offered by Afrospear are not on the internet. So I believe some other type of outreach program will need to be implemented. I suggest that we form a main blog, as a directory for those who do need the service of the afrospear. I suggest that those who do not have access to the internet be informed about the movement through webcast throughout the various cities that are represented in the afrospear.

I also agree with one of the bloggers, on the lack of brick and mortar participation from the afrospear in advocating for those most in need. I suggest that each blogger join an organization and implement the afrospear within such organizations. And the webcast could be one way of pulling in folks to learn how to blog. I suggest that a post goes up by one member, specifically about Afrospear agenda, once a week, a different blogger each week, and we all go over and comment.

This will change as the membership grows. I don't care who is the author, the article can be emailed to the host blogger, but a shared community. A model in which the Afrosphere can copy is African-American Political Pundit which does an excellent job for bloggers. And has already started a listing on African-American(Black) Opinion on the Afrospear members.

Perhaps these things are already being done, but I offer my two cents.

The post below is just something I wanted to share, and tell me what you think.To read the complete post go to Professor Zero.

None of these movements function effectively when the focus is on catering to the diverse needs of those enlisted in the ranks; the diversity can be acknowledged and supported, but a shared purpose must, for maximum effectiveness, remain the point of concentration. The common assumption that political action should be based on a fully shared–even identical–set of values and perspectives among those committed to a cause isn’t a good operational guide for effective organizing.

Within a given movement, differences are bound to exist among the rank and file in regard to class, race, gender, age, geographical location, religious belief and so on. But when those differences become the prime focus of attention, the energy that should be saved for working against a common oppressor gets diverted and sapped. To form powerful, effective political organizations, individuals cannot be allowed to let the differences that separate them usurp the agenda.

One central reason movements for social reform in this country have rapidly run aground is our commitment to the ideological belief (not the practice) of the supreme importance of the individual