Cedric Johnson, a political scientist and associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago, has no confidence in the long term effectiveness of organizing based on “a purely ethnic affinity.” Dr. Johnson told the Dead Pundits Society podcast: “There are many different interests that are operating within the Black population at any given moment. Whenever we have these sorts of national agenda-setting exercises, what you get is a portrait of some of the different things that Black people want, but it’s not really a functioning agenda.”
Ken Burns latest documentary series "Vietnam" leads with the claim that the US war in Vietnam was a mistake, a tragic miscalculation. In fact it was a crime that cost 3 million lives.
My Sister-in-law, the Artist, propped her last painting up, as high as she could reach…
“Regime change is the rule in U.S. foreign policy practice.”
“The system allows every white person to be a supremacist as they carry out their daily lives.”
“To conflate the just struggle of oppressed people with white nationalism is merely a variant of white supremacist ideology.”
