Radio choices

My choices for radio among my presets on the ride home:

1. KCLU: Pledge drive, and I lose the station as soon as I leave Thousand Oaks.
2. KCRW: Electronica.
3. KPCC: Pledge drive, and as I’ve noted twice before I’ve contributed and I’m tired of being scolded. They alternated this with Tavis Smiley, whose show makes me cringe.
4. KPFK: This is Pacifica.  They had Black Panther women on the program.  More on this after the list.
5. KUSC: Unpleasant flute music.
6. Air America: Today’s it’s launch, but I couldn’t receive the station (1580 AM).

I ended up listening to the Black Panthers. They were highly articulate, but they were espousing really militant stuff, talking about how it was fortunate some of their leaders “didn’t have to kill people” and referring to race riots as “rebellions” (which I’ll admit deserves a bit more thought.) At least one of the women was talking about her expatriation to Cuba and the Soviet Union, which makes perfect sense as both Castro and Brezhnev were African black power enthusiasts with absolutely no ulterior motives in encouraging seditious Americans.