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.”
“Measured in military dollars, the Democratic leadership is more warlike than the Trump administration.”
“An ultra-rich right winger put Trump in the White House and now controls the country’s political agenda.”
“Democrats have been a reliable source of fake progressivism and real imperial policy.”
“Since the Dems took control of the House in 2007, the antiwar movement has been pitiful.”
“Economic disparities, police brutality, inequalities et al. go together with capitalism.”
