[hq2600] Fwd: Cynthia McKinney's brilliant observation on Mandela/State of our world

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Wow, thanks for that!  I had forgotten about this interview.  Yes, in it you can see the influence of Freire, Fanon, Derek Bell, my father, and other giants who in their own way taught us resistance to oppression.  The challenge now is to fashion an attitude of collective responsibility for participating in structures of injustice into resistance and, then, true change.

Mandela, America, Israel and systems of oppression

By Askia Muhammad -Senior Editor- | Last updated: Dec 10, 2013 - 10:02:37 AM

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_101036.shtml

“I like to focus on the system of oppression,” former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) said on The Final Call radio panel. “Then, the foreign policy of the United States supported a White supremacist international structure. And today, the foreign policy of the United States still supports that structure.

“That structure is in trouble because of certain events that will turn that structure on its head, but it’s because of countries like China, and India, Brazil asserting themselves, and the economic progression that is bound to take place inside those countries due to the population shifts, and of course the alignment of Africa with those countries, as opposed to the alignment of Africa with the European countries.

“So the system is still in place, and the face change has not resulted in system change, and that includes inside South Africa as well. What we have had though, inside South Africa, is the creation of a Black political class that has access to the economic rewards of that system that’s still in place that hasn’t filtered down to the masses of Black people in South Africa, and for that matter, that’s a global structure that denies access to resources to all people of color, because that structure, that system was not created by us. It was created by those who colonized and continue to oppress us,” said Ms. McKinney.

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