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.”
“Rwandan dictator Kagame appears to be pursuing his own agenda in Congo by driving local people out and populating their land with newcomers.”
“The Democrats act as though they have found the magic key to victory because they got lucky in one red state.”
“The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: his view of black America is narrow and dangerously misleading.”
“Until now, there has never been a national reckoning of police shootings that includes Americans who are shot by cops and survive.”
“Political speech should not only be protected in print and television, but it should also be protected in the digital world, including websites, video, social media and new outlets we
