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Claudine Gay Is The Victim of a Poisonous and Pernicious Culture War..
And one which could very well spell the very end of the American empire..
White America would love you to think that Black people are the ones who are schitzophrenically obsessed with race.
It is as though the perpetrators of the enslavement of Africans; of the genocide of Native Americans; of Jim Crow segregation; of interning American citizens during the second world war; of bombing innocent civilians in Nagasaki and Hiroshima and practically destroying the Middle East, have never been obsessed by race.
But race has always been at their forefront of their thinking. This was true in 1619 and it is certainly true in 2024.
We must never forget that it was an American President who said that facts were stubborn things.
The cold, irrefutable facts about racism were never going to go away and the vast numbers of the descendants of chattel slavery were never going to let the descendants of slave masters forget the extraordinary atrocities which took place in times past and how it plays out in our lives today.
And these facts have formed the perfect backdrop to what’s currently unfolding right before our very eyes.