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.”
“A distracted and hypnotized public won’t ask questions, make demands, or build movements.”
“One man essentially wants to exploit all the wealth of the country for himself.”
“Movements for self-determination must be judged on the concrete pressure they place to either unite the oppressed or empower the imperialist order.”
“Any set of demands regarding police reform should include a strategy to directly confront the police union in order to limit its power and influence.”
“The black vote has been ‘hacked’ and ‘interfered’ with for decades by both parties and is
