South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
âSouth African police kill between two and three times as many people as US police do, per capita,â said Paul Clarke, a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who has done extensive research on labor, policing and privatization in South Africa. However, âitâs difficult to tellâ if the Black majority regime kills more of its citizens than its apartheid predecessor, âbecause so many killings by police were covered upâ during white rule, said Clarke. South Africa is also the biggest incarcerator on the continent.
Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US
âThe US health system has failed utterly and completely to protect the peopleâ in this country, said veteran activist Sara Flounders, co-editor with Lee Siu Hin of the new, 50-writer anthology âCapitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of Covid-19 in China and the US.â The US accounts for a quarter of the worldâs infections and a third of deaths, a catastrophe due to âthe cost of health care for profit, of no national health care, and no national coordination,â said Flounders, who notes that the US âdoes not lack infrastructure in police, in the military, and in prisons.â
Corporate Baseballâs âFeebleâ Gesture to Negro Leagues
Major League Baseballâs recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only âthe beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldnât even come close to restoringâ the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. âBaseball was not just a pastime for Black people,â said Myers. âIt was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came togetherâ during American apartheid.
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