The C.O.W.S. w/ Dr. Gerald Horne: The Bittersweet Science, Boxing and White Supremacy

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes the return of Dr. Gerald Horne. One of the preeminent scholars on the global System of White Supremacy, Dr. Horne investigates Racism in a variety of area of people activity involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. Dr. Horne has authored dozens of books, and almost all of them address White Supremacy. He visited with us in the middle of 2020 and told us he had just finished off a new book, The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering , and the Political Economy of Boxing. The text examines how White gangsters, criminals and Racists dominate the sport of boxing – and do so by dominating and exploiting black males. Dr. Horne chronicles championship prizefighters and Victims of White Supremacy like Jack Johnson, Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, Floyd Patterson and the late Marvelous Marvin Hagler. He also describes the White blood-thirst and homoerotic appetite for pugilism.