Tag: white supremacy
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Meet Me in St. Louis The Dream of White Supremacy
Meet Me in St. Louis The Dream of White Supremacy Meet Me in St. Louis premiered on November 22, 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri. The New York premiere took place a few days later, on November 28. It was the first hit from MGM’s musical department, headed since 1940 by Arthur Freed, the writer…
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South Africa and the rainbowfication of whiteness
The cover of Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side of the Moon is a perfect visual metaphor for the South African transition from apartheid. The image, a single beam of white light being refracted through a prism, becoming a rainbow, perfectly captures the way the transition to democracy in 1994 became a prism refracting whiteness into…
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The Failure of Reconstruction and Its Consequences
Why are we here in the year 2017 still having to deal with racist morons flying the battle flag of a traitorous slaveowners’ rebellion that was defeated more than 150 years ago and other manifestations of white supremacy that draw on that utterly reactionary heritage? One of the main reasons, I would argue, is that…
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Review: Black Subjugation in America
Review of three books on black subjugation, slavery and white supremacy, and argues these three things need to be placed at the center of the Americqn experience.
