"Leopold was just one part of thousands of things that helped construct white supremacy as both an ideological narrative and material reality...It was a system. But that doesn’t negate the need to talk about the individuals who are symbolic of the system. But we don’t even get that. And since it isn’t talked about, what capitalism did to Africa, all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide are hidden. The victims of imperialism are made, like they usually are, invisible"
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:05:19 +0000
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