em_poc • 6 months ago

Congo “Coup” Was Reality TV; Morehouse Congo Protest Was Real

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Congo “Coup” Was Reality TV; Morehouse Congo Protest Was Real

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Congo “Coup” Was Reality TV; Morehouse Congo Protest Was Real | Black Agenda Report

www.blackagendareport.com

Morehouse College professors protested US complicity in Congo Genocide by unfurling a Congolese flag behind Joe Biden as he addressed the 2024 graduating class. A brief, quixotic coup took place in Congo on the same day.

this was an interview between contributing editor Ann Garrison and Execute Director of Friends of the Congo Maurice Carney.

on May 19, 2024, he [Christian Malanga] died in a quixotic coup attempt involving a force of some 50 armed men and lasting for all of three hours in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. Reports are that three of his men and two Congolese police officers were also killed, and that the rest of the men were arrested.

On the same day, in a more serious and significant undertaking, two Morehouse College professors [Samuel Livingston and Cynthia Hewitt] held up a Congolese flag behind President Joe Biden as he addressed the 2024 graduating class.

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BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0 [comrade/them]
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6 months ago
yeah for sure

i only really discovered Black Agenda Report when i posted this, so i think i'm a similar position as you

and Western media sources on Africa are very biased and don't really have much coverage anyways

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