Glen Ford's passing

© 2021 Peter Free

 

04 August 2021

 

 

Freedom's sparks are few . . .

 

. . . in our Universe of oppressively minded, avaricious humans.

 

Glen Ford was one such counter-evil glow.

 

Black Agenda Report, which he helped found, did a good job of memorializing him:

 

 

Glen Ford's Journalism Fought for Black Liberation and Against Imperialism (Margaret Kimberley)

 

Glen Ford: A Remarkable Revolutionary (Danny Haiphong)

 

Power to the People! (by his daughter, Nia Ford)

 

Revolutionary, Friend, Leader, Lover of Black People (Marsha Coleman-Adebayo)

 

Glen Ford and the Black Radical Critical Tradition (Ajamu Baraka)

 

Glen Ford and the Need for Black Radical Analysis (Pascal Robert)

 

Glen Ford, Presente! (Nellie Bailey)

 

Glen Ford: In Memoriam (Peter James Hudson and Jemima Pierre)

 

 

I will add a more comprehensive point

 

In his writing, the only way that I ever had the opportunity to meet him, Glen Ford was morally and intellectually trustworthy.

 

That is the highest of commendations in our, or probably any, times.

 

 

The moral? — Humanity's best hopes are always extraordinarily few and . . .

 

. . . usually not celebrated to any societal change-engendering degree.

 

Liberty dies because so few are willing to carry its torch. Those that do with provocative courage, are pervasively reviled — and often imprisoned or executed — by the cultures they inhabit.

 

On the one hand, sky-arcing stars. On the other — sprayed blood, callousness and soul-denying darkness.