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.”
This is a hasty and cleaned up version of Kali Akuno's remarks at the Movement School for Revolutionaries, which was hosted by Cooperation Jackson in Jackson Mississippi on October 21, 2017.
“Jeff Bezos and his ilk have used their political power to create an economic order of near absolute worker insecurity.”
“They use ludicrous terms like ‘gold star family’ and make the case for continued American aggression around the world.”
“Eminem loves the military. He also loves the Democrats. Neither of these positions amount to anti-establishment resistance.”
“A jihad in the Congo makes no sense whatsoever.”
