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.”
“It's time for us to grow up and join the rest of the world that has several different political parties.”
“If having black faces in high and not so high places doesn’t save our lives why should we support them at all?”
“Kanye West merely represents what happens when the Black misleadership class begins to reflect the crisis of the US system.”
“The systematic violence could not have occurred without the ongoing support from the U.S.”
“Spill is about freeing up our imaginations and our bodies for a world we deserve and yet don’t know how to narrate.”
