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.”
“Many of the detainees had been held in custody for years without access to a lawyer or ever having appeared before a judge.”
“The people of Ethiopia are showing their defiant resistance.”
Black Misleadership Class Specializes in Groveling
Most Black elected officials and established civic organizations long ago stopped making substantive demands of U.S. rulers. “They have no demands.
When the Philadelphia City Council refused to consider a proposed bill to make the police accountable to democratically elected neighborhood bodies, the Black Is Back Coalition and its allies held
