“Every African-American Is Guilty As Suspected!”
Prof. Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo, political sociologist, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, University of Buea.
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This is an expression of frustration with the unending manifestations of disguised racism. The United States of America is officially a de-racialized society after several landmark revolutionary transformations such as the Emancipation, desegregation and the civil rights movement. These were in no small way significant advances away from slavery and the racially-constructed society of the founding fathers; despite the lofty ideas of the American Revolution and decolonisation from Britain. Lire aussi : Bénin: Lendemain agités
Remembering Martin Luther King’s Last, Most Radical Book
Marking an anniversary of a book’s publication is, appropriately, reserved for books that were widely read when they first appeared many years ago. Books we commemorate with an anniversary are ones that ushered in a new way of thinking and influenced the way society tries to make sense of the world. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last book,
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community did neither of these things.
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Published in the long, hot summer of 1967, it was politely reviewed but dismissed. Milton R. Konvitz of the