Archive for August, 2001

Carolina Crackers

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2001

As reported today by the AP (”Lawmaker Forwarded Racist E-Mail“), a North Carolina state representative, Republican Don Davis, forwarded Christian Identity Movement — a religious, White supremacist, anti-semitic hate group, committed to, as they put it, “reconstructing a national identity for Christians” — email to every politician in the NC legistlature.

The email claims that “two […]

American Neoconfederates and Global Racism

Monday, August 20th, 2001

In the 17 August CSM, in a story about gang activity in Cape Flats, South Africa, we find modest but real confirmation of one of the secondary arguments against America Neoconfederatism, evinced most notably of late by the public display of Confederate flags on government property. The primary argument is that such displays are morally […]

US Imperialism and White Privilege

Saturday, August 18th, 2001

Let’s review a few of the places and populations over which the US has been a colonial, imperial power — Cuba (and here), Philippines, Hawaii, Vietnam, Haiti, Central and Latin America, Puerto Rico (which remains a US colony), Africa (and here), African-descended domestic populations, Lebanon, Palestine (by proxy), Native American peoples.
Has the US […]


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