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The Promise of BRICS   By Kelson Maynard   The 21 st century so far is being characterized by imperial wars, denials of people’s sovereignty through occupations by military might, mass displacement of peoples, labor diasporas, the criminalization of refugees and migrants, and imminent environmental catastrophe.   These are all consequences of global capitalism.   Global capitalism’s hegemony made possible through western European and Euro-American militarism.   This system is legitimized through its knowledge system, international laws, and its ideology based on the sanctity of property.   This ideology legitimizes extreme violence against non-European peoples. To mask their nefarious designs and behavior around the world, Europeans and Euro-American imperialism established a discourse of human rights, which justifies their interventions in the sovereign domains of non-European governments and economies.   Their behaviors reaffirm the global status quo of existing global inequalitie

  The persistence of narrow loyalties retards the struggle against global capitalism.   It can lead to anarchy within the ranks of progressive forces.   The very forces that once professed revolutionary ideals and ideas, become embroiled in struggle for power not against capitalism but against each other.   Within the content and context of European and European American knowledge production system reason seems impossible to modify their will to power agenda. Every rule, every law, seems to be Janus faced.   There is no morality, no facts, no true and false, only their will to power. In the globalized, patriarchal, heterosexual, white supremacist social and economic system, the elites who run state seems motivated by the simple impulse of the will to power.   Nothing else matters.   Harmony and unity among human beings and with nature is not the goal of their actions; only the acquisition of power or the maintenance of their power. These elites manage the institutions and distrib

  In the Euro-centric hegemonically controlled world system of white supremacy Africans and their descendants in diaspora are not accorded the status of human beings.   Freedom is not a human right, it is white privilege.   Black people are used as structural instruments for the execution of White peoples’ fantasies and sadomasochistic pleasures.   The enslavement of African people by White people developed into a relationally dynamic system of white supremacy enforced through violence.   The physical and social violence perpetuated against Black people is not based on discrimination.   Rather, white racial violence against Black people serves as a sort of health tonic for White people’s maintenance of white supremacy. In the ideological system of white supremacy and the social order and process that it engenders violence against Black people is the law, not the result of law enforcement as is often assumed.   This is the foundation upon which the social structure of the United Sta

  It is a characteristic feature of the western knowledge production system to be hegemonic.   The knowledge system becomes so normalized that even the oppressed internalizes the knowledge as normal.   They become unconscious of the fact that knowledge is a construction.   A system of   representation influenced by a multitude of forces, all intending to perpetuate white supremacy.   Examples abound: the western knowledge system represented Africa as the dark continent- meaning that the people were ignorant, wild, primitive, unsophisticated, heathenistic.   Geographically, Africa is represented much smaller than it is.   Today, these representations still form the a priori assumptions that predicate knowledge and thinking about Africa, Africans, and their descendants.   This construction of African subjectivity as ignorant, abject, despised, is crucial to the construction of European and European descendants’ subjectivity as superiors. Another popular trope of the western knowled

 In the long history of African Americans battle for racial equality and civil rights, state sanctioned police and white vigilante violence have been the strong arm of white racist power. Exaltation of the police and acquiescence to white vigilante violence against African Americans and other people of color are often a manifestation of white entitlement that authorizes and promotes the brutalization of Black, Brown, and other people of color. Racism, sexism, homophobia, mass incarceration, and militarism are interlocking systems of oppression, which have resulted in an epidemic of police violence and murder of African Americans in the United States of America. Centuries of United States of America racial capitalist exploitation, imperialistic practice, racial hierarchy, and structures of white supremacy have negatively impacted this nation. The virulent rot and stench from slavery is still with us in multiple ways. The practice of its sovereignty expressed in race/ethnic based oppres

                      For underserved communities in the United States, the populations there must exercise their right to vote because it can address quality of life issues of African Americans, Latinx and Indigenous people’s and influence to change the trajectory of the Trump administration’s policies in these communities. This new trajectory can effect constructive change from the local level up through the Federal level for the citizens that live in these communities.  Because quality of life issues like health care, education, immigration, housing, employment, over-policing and women’s issues are on the ballot this election season. The choices between the two major political parties couldn’t be more of a stark contrast to choose from for communities of color this election season. To continue on the path of Trumpism would be a dark and deadly one for marginalized peoples, while the alternative should be an opportunity to make policy change to improve the lives in these communitie