I don’t think you could overstate how completely Obama broke their minds. The fact that a black man was the most powerful person in the world for 8 years and was popular absolutely destroyed white power mythology and was their apocalypse.
Wonderful short speech from Jeremy Irons on the historic injustices suffered by the Palestinians and the gross ignorance of their history of suffering & dispossession in the West
"We are never simply seeing what’s 'really there,' stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions."
Fascinating read: https://t.co/4lVPUOAsm4