Yannick Giovanni Marshall

‘The West has proven it is in­ca­pable of lead­ing the world,’ says African stud­ies schol­ar Yan­nick Gio­van­ni Mar­shall.

This cur­rent chap­ter of West­ern-run hu­man his­to­ry must be flung shut. 

It is time to start doubt­ing the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty is re­al­ly in the busi­ness of coun­ter­ing the far right in the US.

As white su­prema­cists wel­come their new hero, lib­er­als work hard to por­tray white su­prema­cy as con­ser­vatism.

Terms like ‘the sys­tem is flawed’ dis­miss Black pain in or­der to le­git­imise the in­sti­tu­tions that cause it.

Min­neso­ta’s ‘don’t-cha-know’ coun­try has blood on the leaves and death march­es in the cracks of the side­walk.

Amer­i­can uni­ty is won through anti-Black vi­o­lence.

If there must be lead­ers – and lead­ers on fair­ness – they should not be men who once presided over an im­pe­ri­al­ist state.

Black peo­ple would bet­ter spend their en­er­gy on in­ter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty than on rec­on­cil­i­a­tion with Trump sup­port­ers.

Nazis have not dis­ap­peared. They have sim­ply said they are not Nazis.