Since the first European invasions, the logic of African people identifying with Africa has been under attack. From “Asiatic Black” to “Foundational Black American” to “Native to the Americas,” false identities serve imperialism. The real question is simple: are we for Africa or for empire? . . .
Opinion Pieces
Evidence that the Empire is Crumbling
One day soon, capitalism will join communalism, slavery, and feudalism, as former systems of dominance in the world. And the people’s of the planet will have their time to shape scientific socialism in the ways needed. For African people that will manifest itself in the creation of one unified socialist Africa. For others, it may look different, but all of this work will serve the purpose of advancing socialist construction for the following stage of human development i.e. world communism, and so on and so on. Kwame Ture could not have provided a more accurate example of this when asked about why he moved from Black power to Pan-Africanism. . . .
Remembrance & resistance are collective, personal, material
The plantation is alive and well, it is a key tool and context of the war against African peoples in the u.s., the Caribbean, and globally. If we don’t tap into our historical, political, terrestrial, and ancestral memories of this fact, we fail to understand what we are up against, we allow their assaults to break our spirits, and we lose the recipes for resistance. . . .
The Military Occupation of Washington, DC: Then and Now
Trump’s initial deployment of the National Guard to DC is not unprecedented. Instead it is an escalation of a centuries-long war against Black, working-class, and poor people waged by both political parties and supported by much of the US population because of the incessant racist rhetoric about Black crime. . . .
“Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control
Within the United States, the discourse on crime functions as the engine of domestic imperialism, particularly over the African/Black internal colony. The bipartisan commitment to “tough-on-crime” policies has systematically normalized the criminalization of poverty and Blackness, creating a populace conditioned to accept ever-more repressive measures. The tragedy is not just a figure like Donald Trump’s brazenness, but the Democratic Party’s decades-long failure to dismantle the very systems that enable it. . . .
U.S. trying to set fire to the Caribbean
They would do well to take a look at the fate of those who at various points decided to make themselves willing pawns of the US in its drive for global domination. They are on the road of Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and they may come to find out, like Zelensky of Ukraine, that the US will use you and discard you when it no longer has uses for you.
The people of the Caribbean cannot allow the US and its lackeys to set fire to our home. . . .
Synergy of the Sacrificed: Katrina and the Praxis of Imperial Domination
The similarities between Palestinians who were forced from their homes by acts of zionist terrorist organizations including Irgun, Haganah, and the Stern Gang (groups that later became the modern Israeli Defense Force), and the forced evacuation of Black New Orleaneans by local law enforcement, the national guard, and active duty soldiers, in many cases with guns drawn, are striking and vindicate the idea that the Nakba, like Katrina, and the genocide and forced displacement and relocation of people Indigenous to the present-day United States were all initiatives carried out through the the praxis of imperial domination. . . .
Kids corner economics: What tariffs teach us about Black capitalism
Black capitalism rests upon two primary myths: the circulating Black dollar and Black buying power. For purposes of this essay, in honor of National Black Business Month, we will use tariffs and trade to highlight the contradictions and limitations of each myth while decoupling the legitimate sentiments that may drive us to support them. . . .