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.”
Slavery is everywhere banned, but the ethos of the slave trade thrives in the baby-buying business.
The illegal slave trade continued right up to the Civil War, requiring US authorities to “recapture” and then expel the human cargo.
Bernie Sanders is slightly more popular among black Democratic voters than white ones.
Teachers in the school district that was supposed to be the model for education reform just rebelled—and won.
Activists keep winding up dead under questionable circumstances, but Black St. Louis is a stressful and violent place.
