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Will Blacks Oppose or Defend US Empire?
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
22 Jun 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Will Blacks Oppose or Defend US Empire?

Defense of Haitian independence was the first foreign policy focus of African Americans, said Brandon Byrd, professor of history at Vanderbilt University and author of “The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti.” With the US now an imperial superpower, Blacks must “question not only the US as a national project, but also question what role we as African Americans have in that national project.”

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