Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

by Akala

America intends to continue dominating the world, regardless of what the majority of the world’s people want.

That England, a country not properly invaded since 1066 but which has invaded almost every nation on the planet, can have a party named the UK Independence Party win 13 per cent of the national vote in 2015 speaks volumes about collective amnesia and ability to distort the facts. The ability of Britain to invade almost the entire planet and then for a significant portion of the country to proclaim themselves victims of some kind of invasion or colonisation may well not seem directly ‘racial’, but it certainly echoes quite clearly the way white America, with its long-term history of racist pogroms, lynching, slavery and segregation, has somehow emerged believing itself to be the victim of racial discrimination.

it’s entirely understandable and human that a portion of the people racialised as white fear that, if they become a ‘minority’ (which means seeing whiteness as a defining factor, obviously), others will do to them as they have done to others,