Julia S.

“Use history to inform the present!”
― Dr. Gerald Horne

“Then finally, in 1776, they pulled off the ultimate coup and exhibited their novel display of patriotism by ousting London altogether from the mainland colonies south of Canada, while convincing the deluded and otherwise naive (to this very day) that this naked grab for land, slaves, and profit was somehow a great leap forward for humanity.”
― Gerald Horne, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean

“Racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is a byproduct of capitalism.”
― Fred Hampton

“Thus, by 1530, 69 percent of the enslaved in Puerto Rico—now a U.S. “possession”—were African.”
― Gerald Horne, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century