February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne is this year’s winner of the ABA, awarded by the Before Columbus Foundation, for his book “The Dawning of the Apocalypse,” a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed.
February 20, 2024
….Internationalism in the Black American community, in particular, has been critical, not least because of the potency of white supremacy on these shores. Historically, international alliances have allowed us to construct a countervailing power against our domestic foes. You see that, for example, with regards to the Haitian Revolution from 1791 to 1804, which ignites a general crisis of the entire slave system, not least in the Americas, which can only be resolved with its collapse….
February 20, 2024
In the early 1600s, new settlers, were uniting across class and even religious lines, and what united them was their “whiteness”. The settlements had become a kind of joint European enterprise. Religious differences, that had so hampered the Spanish invasions, fell away as the white invaders came together “to bludgeon indigenes and batter Africans”.
February 20, 2024
Interviewer Charisse Burden-Stelly begins, “….apocalypse represented, for African and indigenous folks, the end of life as they knew it—that is, a life free from enslavement, genocide, and ongoing violence wrought by the insatiable drive of the group that came to be known as “whites” for endless profit. This ending was simultaneously the beginning of a capitalist world economy rooted in racial hierarchy, imperial domination, and militarized social relations, of which neoliberalism is merely the most recent enunciation.”
February 20, 2024
Just after January 6th, Gerald Horne was one of the first to remind us that “mobocracy,” generally driven by settler colonialist impulses and schemes, has been a potent force throughout this country’s history…
