12. Or to flip it the other way, this same foreign policy elite saw black America as an internal colony within the American nation.
-
-
Replying to @HeerJeet
13. This habit of mind can be seen in Kennan's desire in 1970s to emulate apartheid South Africa & create Bantustans for black Americans
2 replies 12 retweets 42 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
14. Questions I'm raising are mainly taken up by historians, but would be good for International Relations as a discipline to grapple with
8 replies 6 retweets 36 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
Old-school racists tended to want to avoid contact with inferior races, hence many opposed Philippines occupation, etc.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @ThaddeusRussell @HeerJeet
Old-school racists like Wilson, Bryan, etc, right?
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @esstheman @HeerJeet
. . . could be "raised" to the level of whites.
3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ThaddeusRussell
Um, Wilson thought that would happen in the far future. So not anti-racist by any reasonable standard
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
-
Replying to @ThaddeusRussell
I think root problem is you are using progressivism & racism as antithetical terms rather than overlapping ones.
1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
And I think you're conflating segregationist scientific racism with the assimilationist racial liberalism of progressives.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Sure, racism comes in different forms. I'd say both these forms have under-writ USA imperialism.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.