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It’s January 19, 2021, the day after the nation’s official sanction of a narrow understanding of the work of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the day before the country “swears in” a new president, the representative of one of only two parties allowed to compete for the style of window dressing in this House of White Supremacy. What has changed? What remains the same? Not just over the last several years of the Trump Presidency, but the last several centuries.
For our answer we offer “The Plantation Is Still Burning” – a repeat airing of our conversation with Yannick Marshall from August 11, 2020, “The Plantation On Fire.”
On MLK Marshall says that it’s “one of the heights of modern racism to expect that the only imagination of liberty and freedom must go through one person Martin Luther King, who has, as it happens, been entirely possessed…by white supremacists.”
Our show today (8/11/20) focuses primarily on Liberalism as another version of White Supremacy. It has always instructed the oppressed to “go slow” to any so-called radical demands like equality. And while Conservatism is a nightmare of activist White Nationalism it has been a Liberal world order that courts the dichotomy of the good cop/bad cop racket, offering protection to the wretched of the earth but never allowing escape from the exploitative and abusive imaginary of the liberal state.
GUEST
Yannick Marshall is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Knox College. He writes on police power, race, white settler culture, anti-blackness, nationalism and ideology, and indigeneity as anti-colonial anarchism before Anarchism.
Discussed in Segment One: Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native by Patrick Wolfe
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MUSIC
“Colonial Mentality” by Fela Kuti
“400 Years” by Bob Marley & the Wailers
“Invasion” by Burning Spear
“Fire” by Rhapsody featuring Moonchild
“Gula para a libertação de África” (Hungry for African Liberation) by Carlos Lamartine
CREDITS
Producer & Host: Doug Storm
Music: Rasul Mowatt
Executive Producer: Kade Young
