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.”
“Business should not go on as usual when the police act as the 21st century slave patrol.”
“Of course we support the cause of protecting lives, but there is an exceptionalism to believing it only applies to American lives and especially white lives.”
“Slavery is the factor that better explains the social problems in the country.”
“I shouldn’t have to defend my brother. They should be proving their innocence.”
“At 70 years old and after 45 years inside, it is time for Herman to come home.”
