The US acted as midwife to South Africa’s apartheid system, said Dr Gerald Horne, author of “US Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.” Horne, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and possibly Black America’s most prolific living political writer, said the US Carnegie Corporation formulated “the blueprint” for South Africa’s apartheid system, imposed in 1948 as “a combination of neo-slavery and Jim Crow on steroids.”
White supremacy is just as much a social reality as it is an ideology.
Trump’s attorney general threatened to withdraw police “protection” from Black communities – but, of course, no such thing exists.
U.S. imperialism has nothing left to offer humanity but ecological destruction, endless war, and a decline in living standards domestically and globally.
There was no peace to keep in the Kivu and Ituri provinces when the UN force arrived nearly 20 years ago, and there’s been none since.
Here come Black Friday, but I wanna a Green New Deal Here come Black Friday, but I wanna a Green New Deal With a whole lotta street heat just to keep it real…
