During this Black August, U.S. White Nationalists have continued to compile victories in the federal court, from Donald Trump’s White Nationalist Department of Justice dropping charges against Oath Keepers January 6, 2021 insurrectionists to his illegal White House ballroom project being endorsed through inaction by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Internationally, the US federal government continues to alienate former allies such as Canada, strong-arm African governments like Liberia and support authoritarian and genocidal regimes from North Korea to Israel, all while further attempting to suppress internal critics, from sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln to military media watchdogs like Stars and Stripes.
Still, from within the fracturing U.S. polity, both resistance and victory against would-be fascist overlords continue to rise. A U.S. Senate primary victory in Florida and wins in other smaller federal and state races continue to unsettle both soft white nationalist Democratic establishment formations and an increasingly unhinged and embattled White Nationalist Party.
Their reactions are well-warranted: A swelling number of people are taking and preparing to take action, independent of establishment politicians, mass media pundits, political operatives and precariously-perched managerial classes.
From within Africana Governance formations, hope for creating better lives through collective effort is finding footing, fed by increasing numbers of awakened, informed and engaged actors. This week, In Class With Carr frames hope as an Africana Way of Knowing, formed from the Momentum of Memory, in the context of U.S. and global events.
We start today’s class with Tequila Johnson.
