From the moment Jesse Jackson (1941 - 2026) sought the nomination of the Democratic Party to run in the 1988 US presidential election, the US has been reorienting its racism in ways that would camouflage how deeply abhorrent it felt about Black peoples. One of the ways in which it reorganised was to sort out the tokenism that had prevailed since 1968. That tokenism culminated in the election of the whitest Black man as the 44th president of the US, a man who served two full terms and cemented the latest iteration of white-power racism in the US.
President Obama was the wrong Black man at the wrong time. If the US had wanted to wholly break with its racism, it should have nominated and elected Jesse Jackson instead of George H.W. Bush. It didn't, and set the stage for the most racist modern US federal government since Ronald Reagan's. What is worse, because it elected the empty suit that is Mr. Obama, it set the stage for the least educated and most racist president in modern times to be elected twice over, and because of his spectacular illiteracy, the world faces the spectre of global war.
The world is much changed since the last global war. Yet so much remains the same.
The white man, in his infinite and bottomless arrogance, cannot fathom a world in which the Black and Brown man could deign to defy his feudalistic and capitalistic dictats. While the white man's gunboats of the 18th century were actual boats with guns, the gunboats of the 21st century are intercontinental ballistic missiles with multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles bearing multiple multi-tonne nuclear warheads capable of destroying the wold a thousand times over. The old gunboats could lay siege to a city at a time. The modern ones have laid siege to the whole world for nigh on fifty years.
In 1953, US and UK capitalist interests connived to depose the democratically elected government of Iran, setting off a chain of events that resulted in the Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1978 and a state of war between Iran and the US that shows no sign of ending in peace. The US, in addition to the other colonial wars it has waged since 1947, has waged a political, economic, cultural and military war against Iran that has resulted in great instability throughout West Asia. The war has often been fought through, and by, proxies. In June 2025, the war became a direct war when the US and Israel launched attacks on the Iranian homeland.
The publicly stated reason for the attacks was Iran's so-called nuclear programme. The real reason is that the white world needed a military lesson to teach the Blacks and the Browns. The white world needed to remind the rest of the world that it could inflict punishment, severe punishment, as and when it chose and for any reason, and that no amount of hand-wringing about "international law" would have any kind of meaning to the white world. White supremacy has seen the writing on the wall: in thirty years, it will no longer be a world power. In fifty years, it will no longer be the wealthiest. In seventy years, it will be a footnote of history. As it had been for the 1,800 years before the first Spanish, Portuguese, French and British "explorers" set sail for the "new world".
The natural order of things has always been for the peoples of the world who have had no reason to pillage and destroy to be the ones to prosper and bring civilisation to the uncivilised and barbaric white world. I recently heard an interesting statement: wherever the white man finds himself, his natural instinct is to destroy. Look at East and Central Africa as an example. The white man found entire cultures that were flourishing and chose to destroy them, their languages, their religions, their forests, their wildlife...their very way of life...in the name of Christian civilisation. That instinct to destroy has not changed in 500 years and, going by the recent war on Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Iran, that instinct will never change.
The US is the modern bellwether of white supremacism. Mr. Obama, the token Black president, is proof. The rearguard attempt by white supremacy to paint a veneer of racial comity failed abjectly. The US elected an uneducated misbegotten monster as its white champion in the hopes that he would lead the charge in forestalling the decline of the white man. Instead, the US has affirmed for the whole Black world to see, that white supremacy is dying, and dying much faster than they thought.
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