Propaganda Putsch Posing as Anti-Xenophobia

The Black Commentator on June 26 featured three cartoons depicting the violence in South Africa, the first accompanied by a brief text on the struggle inside Zimbabwe. A startling aspect about each of the three cartoons was their anti-African depictions. Each cartoon seemed to criticize the attacks by South Africans against workers from neighboring countries.

The cartoons couched this depiction in a way which held all South Africans responsible for the attacks. As if South Africans were united in reactionary consensus against the influx of workers from Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland.

However, those of us who participated in anti-apartheid...

Langalibalele

Setting The Record Straight
Junious Ricardo Stanton

On July 3 the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition held their annual Black Independence Day Memorial on the site of the soon to be constructed Liberty Bell Center at 6th and Market Streets in Philadelphia. This site ironically is where George Washington held in brutal captivity nine Africans who served him without pay while he served as the first president of the United States. Since 2002 ATAC has attempted to raise awareness of the vicious legacy of slavery and have that complex narrative included in the telling of America’s history. Telling the truth will enable all people to appreciate know how this country really developed and the important role Africans played...

JRSWRITER

Setting The Record Straight
Junious Ricardo Stanton

On July 3 the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition held their annual Black Independence Day Memorial on the site of the soon to be constructed Liberty Bell Center at 6th and Market Streets in Philadelphia. This site ironically is where George Washington held in brutal captivity nine Africans who served him without pay while he served as the first president of the United States. Since 2002 ATAC has attempted to raise awareness of the vicious legacy of slavery and have that complex narrative included in the telling of America’s history. Telling the truth will enable all people to appreciate know how this country really developed and the important role Africans played...

JRSWRITER