Donald Earl Collins

What we have in America is not ‘race relations’ but a 400-year cycle of racist abuse.

For Black and Indigenous people and other persons of colour, the backbreaking weight of American racism is inescapable.

And the mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic is just another proof.

The racist, narcissistic behaviour that characterises the Trump administration has its roots in US colonial history.

Slavery was state-sanctioned mass violence, despite what the College Board says.

Or why the US cannot have a meaningful national dialogue on race.

The black middle class is talking of values and civility as many Americans of colour continue to languish in poverty.

America’s racism and narcissism is the reason why its foreign affairs are a mere projection of its domestic ills.

Racial and social segregation has built Trump’s electorate and the dominant white narrative it subscribes to.

With American racism and black history, there are no happy endings.