Among other questionable Radford programming decisions at KPFK contributing to plummeting fund drive results, the new manager put the struggling pledge drive on a “break” this weekend to air a 30-hour Afrikan Mental Liberation Marathon, an independently produced dawn to dusk black nationalist-oriented program . The program has disturbed queer-identified listeners with aggressively homophobic positions presented with little to no counterpoint.

A KPFK staffer provided this clip of an interview with female psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing in which she compares queer sex to human-dog mating, states that male semen is a dietary protein like sweet potatoes and greens, and that homosexuality in Ancient Greece was caused by shock at the larger sizes of African genitals – among other bizarre statements deeply disrespectful towards LBGT people. You can hear for yourself here.

The program is presented at an ironic time, given the ascendance of the Black Lives Matter movement as co-founded by an out black queer woman deeply interested in affirming the lives and  leadership of black queer and transgender people in the fight against white supremacy. Alicia Garza was the grand marshall at San Francisco’s 2015 Pride Parade in June saying “The way I want to live in the world is to be unafraid, unashamed, and to be who I am” .

Margy Wilkinson appointed Radford, a community college drama and speech adjunct teacher who served on Pacifica national and local boards as a stalwart member of Wilkinson’s faction, as KPFK’s general manager on her last day as Pacifica’s interim executive director with permanent hire John Proffitt in his car on his way to California. Proffitt had requested that Wilkinson not make the hire prior to his arrival. 57 of KPFK’s staffers objected to the hire.