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Last night’s attack on Venezuela would have been coordinated at least in part by SOUTHCOM, one of 11 U.S. military commands around the world and space, intended to give the ruling class what the U.S. calls “full spectrum dominance.” The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has been calling for the dismantling of not only SOUTHCOM but AFRICOM, for about a decade.

Habari Gani?! Ujima! Collective Work and Responsibility -"To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers', sisters', and siblings' problems our problems and to solve them together." On Christmas Eve, with the “cooperation” of the Nigerian government, the U.S. fired more than a dozen Tomahawk missiles into Sokoto State, Nigeria. According to news reports these came from a warship off the coast of Guinea, and this warship would have been under the control of AFRICOM, the U.S. Military Command in Africa.

In his 1983 book, Settlers: The Myth of the White Proletariat, J. Sakai provides excellent insight into the nature of racism, the White left, and the position of Black and other oppressed people in the U.S. To help us understand these domains, Sakai breaks down settler colonialism more broadly, including the U.S. as a settler-colonial state, White people as settlers, and the rest of us as people of oppressed nationalities within this settler-colonial state. The roots of this system lie in Europe’s parasitic and patriarchal ruling class, which, in its stunted mental state, disrupted societies’ inclination to consider the needs of the broad community, including the environment, and consistently placed its desire for power over others over societies’ long-term health and perpetuation.

Completed! This book sat on a shelf for two decades. Feels like completing Marx’s “Capital”, it’s that conceptually unrelenting, that much of a paradigm shifter/attacker. Though, i would like to talk to Dr. Ani about how the core contention that the very seed of European culture i.e. “the asili” is the embodiment of a despirtualized violence, seems undermined by a depiction of Homer as expressing a worldview prior to Plato that could have proffered another kind of Western culture, “Yurugu”, turning anthropology on its head and using it to look closely at all things Western from capitalism to imperialism to the environment and creating an African centered schematic to explain Europe, is that book. With chapters on aesthetics, religion, the image of self (Europeans) the image of others, you can look at sections of it, you can read the intro and sections.