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.”
It wasn’t led by lineage of Robert E. Lee— it was nuts demanding healthcare for free! It wasn’t a lynch mob, a putsch, or a coup— what good does divisive descriptions do?
White supremacist culture is a permanent site of predatory consumption, extraction and violation.
The federal government’s stimulus payments and the role of black police officers were on your minds.
Racial capitalism is insidious and malleable, and can adapt to nearly any political context.
To read In the Wake is to read a love letter to Black people in the everywhere of this world.
