April
4
GUEST: Sahar Aziz, award
winning author, Distinguished Professor of Law, Chancellor’s
Social Justice Scholar, and Middle East and Legal Studies
Scholar at Rutgers University Law School, talks about how race
intersects with religion in the US.
Distinguished
Professor of Law
Acknowledgement of racism must be a powerful motivator. At least the right wing fundamentalists think so. Any academic course or publication that acknowledges racism in the United States is attacked, censored or removed from libraries. We don't want to know, and we certainly don't want our children to know. So our history must be lobotomized.
One might think that the same reactionary forces would object to the study of racism in US foreign policy. But it is our elite political class that opposes this type of analysis. It is the military industrial complex that makes sure that any academic who speaks or writes about racism in our foreign policy is attacked or fired. The racism that is at the heart of empire is strictly off limits.
That's because almost every military invasions the United States has undertaken in the last 75 years has involved an attack on people of color. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya are all countries that are generally considered to be non-white. Or as our fascist leader might say, they always live in "shit hole countries."
All shit hole countries belong to the American Empire.
