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.”
“We’d have to be complete morons to believe the scenario” painted by the U.S.
South African freedom fighter Winnie Mandela, who passed away this month at age 81, “will outlive in her glory and marvel many of the presidents we’ve had since 1994,” said Ronnie Kasrils
Black radical candidates must always “keep politics in command,” when challenging the misleadership class for the hearts and minds of the Black community.
The only good thing I can think to say about the Obama presidency is really kind of negative too, a monstrous crime he almost committed, but backed away from at the last minute.
Ocher shadow bearing sculls and crossbones, ruby river draining from pyramid’s base an endless death rattle of bombs and drones Threatening to drown the whole human race
