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It’s, important to note when Rhodes speaks of saving the UK, he is speaking of how to neutralize the anger of the white worker class Brits. The colonies not only saved Europe from starvation by usurping people of color’s resources, it also bestowed the title of “savior” upon the bourgeois class. Who were these people in the colonies who had their civilizations so irrecoverably altered so that Europe and this new phenomenon called the (white) “working class” could flourish. It was us! We were their life blood! PEOPLE OF COLOR AROUND THE WORLD! They didn’t call themselves, thieves, rapists, murders, or purveyors of genocide, NO! They used euphemisms like: “settlers”, “pioneers”, and “colonialists”. In North America you have a situation where a colony broke off from their UK metropole, so that they could own the profits from Indian genocide and Africans as fungible commodities. Hell they even got some “Negroes” to wrap themselves in the flag to fight for their cause (Crispus Attucks dumb ass), and from British colonialism (via a bourgeois revolution), America emerged as a sovereign nation, and thus began a reign of domestic colonialism within its borders. So how did they get such a vast amount of prisoner nations (African, Indian, and Asian) to submit to their exploitation; simple, cultural hegemony. By educating the masses in domestic colonial institutions and making them believe that they had a stake in America, and that they themselves were Americans, they were able to subdue any National Liberation struggle. So you begin to see prisoner nations fight amongst each other trying in vain to prove who was the most “American” and legitimate in the eyes of the true American citizenry, THE WHITE IMPERIALIST SETTLERS!

America=Freedom, And 2+2=5! at People Of Color Organize! (via clingtomymouth)

Crispus Attucks dumb ass” = *gigglefest*

and, chalking the subjugation of colonized nations all up to cultural hegemony is oversimplifying it, i think, and it erases the way these nations resisted (and are still resisting!) this subjugtion. but it was a huge part, yes.

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