Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share a complex history of slavery, displacement and state violence. Mays is author of the book, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in North America.Water rights and climate change are connected with larger political empowerment issues. “We need to somehow deal with the issue of returning land to native peoples,” said Mays, who is of Black and Native American ancestry.
“The constraints empire placed on its racial contradictions are falling away.”
“Mainstream feminists never quite knew what to do with the welfare rights movement.”
“White workers have not only failed to precisely identify their class enemies, they have also held on to the racial baggage of their ancestors.”
“Black working class militancy is THE essential precondition for the fight against racism, but it is not sufficient.”
Margaret Kimberley on the CBC protecting police as a class, William Hartung on the bloated US military budget, Akile Anai on reparations and protecting the homeless in St.
