Middle East Casts Deepening Shadow at UN Race Meet
“We cannot expect Palestinians to accept this (the Holocaust) as a reason why the wrongs done to them — displacement, occupation, blockage, and now extra-judicial killings — should be ignored, whatever label one uses to describe them,” UN Sec. Koffi Annan said.
“Who could teach us how […]
Colonialism Created Fragile African States
The history of the slave trade and the negative impact of colonialism — issues which Washington wants kept off the agenda of the UN racism conference in South Africa this week — are blindingly obvious in Africa, and perhaps in few countries more than in Nigeria.
Thoroughly Modern Jesse
Far from unenlightened […]
Racism only happens in little nations
This is shaping up to be a conference in which the wealthiest and strongest countries get to decide whose racism matters. The only thing left to discuss will be the racist practices of countries that aren’t powerful or politically savvy enough to keep their problems off the agenda.
World Leaders Gather for Controversial Racism Meeting
White, Zionist and Hindu Racism; the Durban question
White supremacy, Zionism and Hindu racism are part of the same project to deny hundreds of millions of people the right to be free, and ought to be fought vigorously and defeated by their victims … Palestinians, Black Americans and India’s Dalits and oppressed masses have to see […]
Poll: Most Oppose Residency for Mexican Illegals
The nation divides over a Bush administration proposal to offer legal residency to illegal immigrants from Mexico, with support strongest among nonwhites and in the West.
Overall, 43 percent of Americans say they’d support a plan “in which illegal immigrants from Mexico would be allowed to live and work legally […]
Reparations Conference (2-4 November)
The US Prison-Industrial Complex
Black Star Green Room (documentary about Ghana and the WTO)
Bystanders to Genocide
Challenging Racial Violence Using the Law
Rape of Nanking Reparations Conference
The decision on what kind, if any, of a delegation the Bush administration would send to the eight-day conference will depend on whether language in the meeting’s agenda criticizing Israel is changed in the coming days — NYT
As I explained in an article (”The Global Privileges of Whiteness“) earlier this summer, one of the chief […]
Manning Marable writing about reparations for American slavery is not unexpected. He is, after all, one of the leading intellectuals of our time. Manning Marable writing about reparations for the corporate media is worth noting, not so much for what it means but for its sheer uniqueness.
All Americans should be engaging in serious debate about […]
Robert Johnson, W.’s favorite race baiter
The Roots of Racial Profiling
The Tribalist Implications of the Colonial Paradox