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.”
“The liberals posing as radicals have been exposed and their sentimental pro-empire proclivities revealed.”
“Members of the Congressional Black Caucus prove themselves to be happy tools of the neoliberal war party.”
“Our focus should be on stopping the wars that create refugees, including the fascistic war on the Black poor.”
“Our biggest problem is that local polluters have poisoned our communities year after year with impunity. “
“The American people have been constantly manipulated and made to fear the Russian threat when it is the United States that has been the aggressive power.”
