Yannick Giovanni Marshall

An anti-colo­nial fu­ture is burst­ing forth. Peo­ple are wak­ing up. Yes, they are woke.

A sit­ting gov­er­nor and a for­mer pres­i­dent are fac­ing off in a white su­prema­cist race for pow­er.

Those who spread con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries do not do so out of ig­no­rance, but be­cause they are white pow­er pro­pa­gan­dists.

Our jus­tice sys­tem is not ‘flawed’ and racist judges are not mere­ly ‘bad ap­ples’.

‘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.