The racially organized nature of space in the U.S. is not accidental. From slavery to Jim Crow to the prison industrial complex to gentrification, internal colonialism has structured the exploitation of Black communities. This essay examines how the colonial division of labor functions as ongoing primitive accumulation. . . .
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“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. . . .