Colonialism, Genocide, & The Racist Color Line that Prevents Calls for Justice.

The vile scourge of racism in all its ugliness can be witnessed on every street corner & in every parliament house, & can be seen historically in the laws that underpin genocide legislation.

The Color Line as it was: Left — Attack on Apalachicola River. The fort had provided home and safety to more than 300 African and Choctaw families. Painting by Jackson Walker, Museum of Florida Art. Right — The headline banner from W.E.B. DuBois regular column, ‘Along the Color Line,’ in the NAACP magazine, The Crisis.

‘The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color* line — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, and America and the islands of the sea.’

W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk: Of the Dawn of Freedom (1). An essay that tells the tale of the dawn of freedom that is an account of the government of men called ‘the Freedman’s Bureau’ — ‘one of the most singular and interesting of the attempts made by a great nation to grapple with the vast problems of race and social condition.’

But first…events that have taken place in the last few days that I could not, in good conscience, ignore…

As we pass a grim milestone of 200 days of war, and the ghastly work of excavating the growing number of mass graves discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals in Gaza following the partial withdrawal of Israeli forces…