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. . . .
katrina
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. . . .