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An 1854 depiction of a slave market
YOU might have noticed that the Morning Star, unlike most other papers, has not referred to South Africa’s Mbongeni Mbonambi’s alleged slur against England’s Tom Curry as racist. There are a few reasons for this.
Unlike the N-word (or the countless other derogatory terms for non-white people), calling someone a “white c**t” is not based on hundreds of years of domination, oppression or an ideology based on racial hierarchy — in which rich, white, straight, cis-gendered western European men sit atop.
It is my understanding that the whole idea of race and racial hierarchy came about during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries during the transatlantic slave trade.
ELLIS RAE recommends a stunning history of the active role played by the British monarchy in establishing and profiting from slavery
We are experiencing a wave of organised, often deadly violence targeting migrants from other parts of Africa — but the poorest South Africans reject this hatred, staying true to the spirit of Ubuntu and Pan-African unity, reports NIGEL BRANKEN
ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors
MOLLY DHLAMINI welcomes a Pan-Africanist and Marxist manifesto that charts a path for Africa’s resurgence