A defaced General Lee, in Richmond, VA. Photo credit: Rebecca Manski.
A new podcast, “Lay Led Unions,” hosted by Peter Glover, Liverpool’s Joint District Secretary for the UK’s National Education Union, featured Professor Gerald Horne recently on its inaugural episode. Horne begins:
“…race, pan-Europeanism, fundamentally…was a way to reconcile those who had been warring on the shores of Europe, English versus Irish, English versus Scots, British versus German, German versus Russian, Russian versus Pole, Serb versus Croat, northern Italian versus southern Italian….
All of a sudden, when they crossed the Atlantic–in a maneuver that would make the Madison Avenue advertising industry blush–they’re rebranded as ‘White’ quote unquote. A sort of ‘identity politics’–as the U.S. left likes to say when they try to disparage black politics, interestingly enough,