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Our guest today is Yannick Marshall and as I find all his recent essays crystallizations of important truths about the US of A, I’ll let his words serve as an introduction to our conversation. This is from “The Racist’s Peace“:
In the times when videos of Black people being killed fall out of the news cycle, Black people are killed with impunity. In the time when this president is in power, Black people are killed with impunity. In the time when this president is not in power, Black people are killed with impunity. In their “counter-looting”, Black people are killed with impunity. In their prisons, their hospitals, their streets, their police stations, Black people are killed with impunity.
In their riots, Black people are killed with impunity.
Their peace, their regular order is a place where Black people are killed with impunity.
I do not wish them peace.
Peace is never peaceful in a colony. The peace of the slave master is not the peace of the enslaved. The slave master finds placid the view of the masses of enslaved people working for him under the whip of the overseer. The enslaved finds peace in a plantation on fire.
Our show today 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
