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.”
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A world of reproductive justice must so be rooted in respect, care and a willingness to challenge all of the practices and beliefs that place people in hierarchical relations.
We face a two-pronged menace: Trump, and the Democrats that failed to prevent his rise and won’t fight his policies.
A nation that claims to be a force for good should not need 800 military bases around the world to corroborate that claim.
Many school districts that were seized by the states are returning to local control, but without adequate funding.
