The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erigha, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, and author of the new book, “The Hollywood Jim Crow: Racial Politics of the Movie Industry.” “Is it a sanitized whiteness, is it a whitewashed vision, or can we have this unapologetic Blackness, and that just be part of the American cultural canon?”
American Exceptionalism is bound to white supremacy and creates a broad national unity around the interests of the ruling class.
This week there was discussion of Tulsi Gabbard’s links to the right wing in India, reparations and the ADOS movement, and Al Sharpton’s role in the 2020 primary. Letters came for “
Black writers have underscored the possibilities and challenges of black internationalism through their innovative adaptations of black music.
What made the ‘American’ different from the ‘Englishman’ was a celebration of vulgar thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors.
The former commander-in-chief says the US has been waging war since its formation. “China has not wasted a single penny on war.”
