The C.O.W.S. Global Sunday Talk On Racism 12/18/16

The Context of White Supremacy hosts our monthly Global Sunday Talk On Racism. This broadcast is specifically designed to encourage participation from Victims of Racism outside the United States and/or non-white people who are not able to participate during our usual broadcast time. Like everything else, the holiday season reinforces the System of White Supremacy. Dutch journalist and political candidate Sylvia Simons was Racially Terrorized for deconstructing the White Supremacist tradition of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). Simon’s face was “super-imposed on the hanged bodies of victims of a lynching.” Whites in England broadcast a BBC documentary on what some would describe as the 2011 lynching of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police. The project obscured the centrality of White Supremacy in Duggan’s death and the subsequent reporting of the killing as well as the days of “rioting.” Black Is The New Black, a four-part series also aired on the BBC, featured Thandie Newton, Naomi Campbell, Dizzee Rascal, Alesha Dixon and some of the most well known, most accomplished black Britons alive. Surprisingly, many of these black celebrities spoke truthfully, courageously about how they have been humiliated and brutalized by White Supremacists.