Ep. 1: Gerald Horne on the Rise of the Far Right, Fascism, Imperialism & International Relations

See my short write-up in Monthly Review introducing my interview with Dr. Horne: monthlyreview.org/press/the-p...
In this video I interview Dr. Gerald Horne on the rise of the far right, fascism, white supremacy, Western imperialism, international relations, and other matters. We also talked about the recent shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, the coup of January 6, 2021, the legacy of US and French colonialism in Haiti, China's Belt and Road initiatives, and the novel American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. This interview took place on May 28, 2022.
Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry, jazz music, and the political economy of boxing. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from Princeton University.
Anthony Ballas teaches philosophy and humanities at Northern New Mexico College, as well as writing and rhetoric at the University of Colorado at Denver. His research focuses on a range of topics, including racism, class politics and internationalism; film and literature, architecture, music, philosophy and politics. He has also written on psychoanalysis, art, hip hop, Shakespeare, and, most recently, the coup of January 6, 2021 and COVID-19.

[@cheri238]

Always great to listen to Dr. Horne, Afro-American studies. American history and world histories on all sides. Thank you.

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

Brilliant interview. I dont even know how such a small channel was picked up by the algorithm.

[@defactopodcastwithanthonyb576]

Thank you! More to come.

[@StrikeCulture]

Uh, cuz who doesn’t search “Gerald Horne” a few times a month? 😉

[@aminekalakhi4793]

This is what a great thinker sounds like

[@Don-sx5xv]

Brilliant interview says it best. Very seldom do you hit a home run on Social Media. I am of the belief that we will not have Peace and Love on this Earth until all 4 colors come together as one.Truth and Love will take us there....Thank-You

[@DjediMind]

Dr. Horne your clarity and context is perfect. Thank you, Sir.

[@shockg11]

Excellent interview!

[@defactopodcastwithanthonyb576]

Thank you!

[@justmyopinion9883]

Thank you for sharing this informative interview. Professor Horne is one of my favorite historians.

[@defactopodcastwithanthonyb576]

Thank you for listening! More interviews coming soon

[@FrancisE.Dec.Esquire]

The California Native American Genocide “The land we occupy today is the very same ground on which these terrible crimes took place. We Californians are the beneficiaries of genocide. I suspect few Californians today contextualize their homes as sitting upon stolen land or land gained by bloody force or artful deceits, nor do they likely consider the social and political questions of present day Native American affairs in this light.” -Brendan Lindsay, Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 In fourth grade, attending a public school in Fullerton, I learned about the history of California. One aspect that was not covered in this curriculum was the fact that in the first three decades of American statehood, California’s Native American population experienced a genocide at the hands of white American citizens. This was not just an accidental by-product of disease or “natural” forces-many thousands of Indians in California were violently massacred by legal state-sponsored militias. These roving death squads operated under color of law and with the support of politicians, the press, and local citizens. Other Native Americans perished due to starvation, slavery, and planned neglect. This tragedy, often overshadowed by nostalgic recollections of the Gold Rush, has only recently been making its way into public consciousness. I would wager that most Californians today have no idea. The first comprehensive treatments of this subject were published very recently, in 2012 and 2014. These are An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley, and Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Brendan Lindsay. Both authors are professors of history in California.

[@kipwonder2233]

Don't forget Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's 'An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: Revisioning America's History'

[@justmyopinion9883]

Thank you for sharing these book titles. I'm going to look for them at my local library.

[@elainehiggins713]

When we don’t know how to move forward we attack the past-which can never be changed.

[@joeyfotofr]

I graduated from grammar school; high school, university and graduate school in the state of California without ever learning of the systematic genocide perpetrated against native Americans in our state. When I did learn these facts, I was shocked and shamed by my ignorance and outraged at the educational system that had perpetuated cowardly myths as California History,

[@justmyopinion9883]

@@joeyfotofr Same here. Our public schools don't teach us very much real history. The only way to learn the truth is to search it out ourselves.

[@Ron841000]

I have to get his latest book!

[@defactopodcastwithanthonyb576]

Highly recommended. I will be interviewing Horne on his Texas book sometime soon.

[@FrancisE.Dec.Esquire]

My family were Fort Sill Reservation Indians, my Great Great Grandmother was a Parker, Jennie Nobel Parker, named by Quanah Parker ( died February 20, 1911) my Grandmother born June 1912 and always tols me how she wish she had met him, and I knew from Age 6 of Historys from 1880's anf foward, Her Mother also Raised me, talking about Oklahoma Boomers and Sooners in the Land rush where out land was sold to Pinch`e Gringo s, Sooners went ahead before the Land Rush and Stole Land, Boomer did it Legally, when the Guns were Fired' She was Federal Worker and Military Health supervisor at Waco Texas Veterans Mental Hospital. I got to Meet the Colorado Professor and hear him speak on *A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present* is a book written by Ward Churchill. A Little Matter of Genocide surveys ethnic cleansing from 1492 to the present. Also I have read *American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World* Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native

[@defactopodcastwithanthonyb576]

Churchill has blurbs on the backs of a couple of Horne's books.

[@jennyhirschowitz1999]

If I may also recommend a slender yet immensely important publication by Ward Churchill titled “White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of Higher Education” published by Citizens International. Thank you for this engrossing interview, I especially appreciate the interviewer’s trenchant questions. Miss Jenny

[@jennyhirschowitz1999]

Remiss of me not to to thank Francis E. For his comment …… the David E. Stannard book is on my order list. Nyabonga, Miss Jenny

[@happygucci5094]

Thank you for this- brilliant. 🙏🏽✊🏽💗

[@medicuswashington9870]

The fact of China has introduced Communism with Chinese characteristics. Anticipate the disruptions and chaos to determine how to move forward. Religion is in the mix, the next enigma wrapped in a paradox. I am grateful to Professor Gerald Horne for sharing and his commitment. Thanks for inviting Professor Gerald Horne.

[@esanuevamexicana]

As a nuevamexicana i approve this message!

[@prof.julsonetienne3181]

He is a very intelligent person. I recently discovered him. He looks like Dr. Serby.

[@idelrich123]

You Mean Dr. Sebi Lol

[@prof.julsonetienne3181]

@@idelrich123 lmao you caught me on that. Yes, indeed.

[@rogerstacey129]

It's often said all the colors must become one before peace will come .I disagree . Peace will come when we learn to appreciate each other's uniqueness and the uniqueness of others . To try to make us all the same way be a goal of globalists but that would be a great evil. Rather we should all revel in the uniques we have been been gifted with.

[@jennyhirschowitz1999]

There is an important omission in this historical context and narrative: That of the London institution of indentured servitude, often worse than slavery, to counter the loss of free labour after abolition. Affected millions of “freed” Africans to keep them bound to their masters and resulted in further human trafficking of millions of sub-continent low caste Indians to toil mainly in the sugar cane of Guyana, Natal (South Africa), Fiji, and other parts of the British empire. This wholesale degradation of coloured labour to keep the sugar profits flowing persisted for decades ….. and still manifests in different iterations in present times. Miss Jenny

[@givelast5671]

30:00

[@newedgegt305]

7:00 the so-called right wing today does not say it's to overthrow a government, it was written in the second amendment that it was for a tyrannical government. Also the reference on cowboy movies in relation to reality is comical.

[@mochilover7053]

No it’s not. American Cinema, especially in the early 20th century, was a grim reflection of the reactionary settler mindset. Besides that, there are clear signs the 2nd amendment didn’t(doesn’t) apply to people who weren’t apart of the in-group. The Wounded Knee massacre e.g. made it clear that guns in the hands of nonwhites just got in the way of expansion of of the settler colony. We can also go over modern day gun laws in NY where Black and Latino men are targerted for arrests by the police for having guns over whites.

[@newedgegt305]

@@mochilover7053 in New York, who is committing the majority of the gun violence?

[@mochilover7053]

@@newedgegt305 High gun violence in a particular area is not an excuse to resume stop and frisk policies on people who happen to be the same race of the average perpetrator. That in and of itself is the continuation of the very system of racism that causes gun criminality.

[@newedgegt305]

@@mochilover7053 FBI crime stats is not racist.... It's reality.

[@mochilover7053]

@@newedgegt305 Which crime stat?

[@royalirishranger1931]

Such drivel!

[@StrikeCulture]

I don’t get it? Inside joke? Thought he said “drive?”