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But today, that victory seems more than a little hollow. The vast majority of Blacks live in the same grinding poverty they did 25 years ago. What happened was the miracle of neoliberalism.

One dilemma remains to this day, how closely to link Black liberation with the liberation of other oppressed peoples, like the Palestinians. Will studying racism in America help students understand racism in Israel?

What will it take for the minorities of our nation to finally throw off their chains in this supposed land of the free?

It is hard to escape the similarity of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza, walled in by barbed wire, and shot by Israeli snipers. And the air, land and sea blockade are certainly the first steps towards actual genocide.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. Abbie Hoffman

How is capitalism working for us now? Are any real reforms on the horizon with the two major parties, or do we need a Socialist movement to restore a broken system that only benefits the millionaires and billionaires?

Such was our nation and our president at the time of Jim Crow, when most white Americans acted like the Germans did in the 1930s. We as whites grow up ignorant of what our country has done to Black people in our history.

Like the current boycott of Israeli products, it was a nonviolent call for human rights in the face of racism and apartheid oppression. Will Ahed Tamimi, locked up in an Israeli jail, be the next Rosa Parks?

The eager adoption of ethnic cleansing by the state of Israel proves two things, that all peoples are capable of racial violence, and that established religions almost always play an insidious role.

A massive demonstration by women led to the overthrow of the Russian Czar in 1917. Will Trump be the next imperial Czar to be deposed by women rising up for their rights?

American racism is a multi headed monster, aided and abetted by our politicians who preach hate to win elections.

Such has been the role of the US since World War II, overthrowing popularly elected Third World leaders, massacring their supporters, and establishing brutal military dictatorships in their place.

Questionable attacks on American ships would go on to play an important part in US imperialism. The Golf of Tonkin attack on a US ship started the Vietnam War, despite the fact that it had never happened.

We as Americans have also paid an enormous price for our endless wars abroad, including the erosion of our democratic principles at home.

What image will finally galvanize US citizens to oppose the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq? Is the empire destined to murder millions of people in each new generation?