Elon Musk: "I don't believe Africa's poverty is caused by colonialism."
Michael Parenti: "The Third World is not poor. It is over exploited.”
Capitalism is maintained through imperialism and the theft of resources from third world countries. This is why the US is always at war.
Many enslaved African Americans went to Mexico for sanctuary. When slave owners demanded that Mexico send them back, Mexico replied:
“There are no Black slaves in Mexico, only Black citizens,”
They insisted that all enslaved people were free when they set foot on Mexican soil. Slave owners then hired bounty hunters to illegally kidnap escapees in Mexico, but Mexico fought and killed to protect them.
There is no opposition party in the U.S. government.
There is no working class party in the U.S. government.
There is no anti-war party in the U.S. government.
There is simply one dictatorship of capital with two imperialist wings.
Voting can’t change this but revolution can.
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
"A lie told once is questioned. A lie repeated often enough becomes accepted. And once it becomes 'common sense,' people stop investigating it. That is how deception survives."
~ Malcolm X
we have an elite pedo cabal running the govt so their pedo friends can extract super profits from the global south that we dominate militarily in the wealthiest nation on earth where close to a million people sleep outside every night. we are a cruel joke. we can do better.
Keith Porter’s murder wasn’t captured on camera, so it’s allowing ICE to sweep it under the rug, but we need to keep talking about him just as much as we talk about Renee Good and Alex Pretti. None of us are safe from this campaign of state violence.
#FREEHASAN holy fucking shit this is such an embarrassment @Twitch@TwitchSupport. Why the FUCK should anybody stream on twitch when they apparently will ban people for telling the truth.
Greenlandic Politician Tillie Martinussen:
We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends.
Even if there are minerals and oil under our land—and they are worth far more—we still would not sell ourselves.
We know what happened to Indigenous people in Alaska and Native Americans. Their land was taken, and they were not treated well.
We see who Trump surrounds himself with—white power people—and we are not white. We are people of color.
We know our rights would likely be taken away.