Quote of the Day

For the people of Iran and all of the peoples and nations involved in the ongoing struggle against Western imperialism, we all have one decisive weapon that will inevitably serve our interests at some point – the psychopathology of white supremacy. This affliction, representing a non-material conceptual frame has had a material impact on the lives, societies, cultures of millions of since the first significant contacts between the peoples later to become “Europeans” or white, and the non-European world.

This phenomenon is:

A racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with an inability to perceive objective reality in the same way as others. This affliction is not reducible to the race of so-called whites but can affect all those who have come in counter with the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial project.

This malady ensures that the disconnect with the objective world on the part of Europeans will inevitably result in European decision-makers constructing policies and a politics that will be counterproductive to their own interests in their dealings with non-European people.

An example of this is the inability of policymakers in the West to recognize the developments and power shifts in the world that make it impossible for Western nations to impose their will on other peoples and nations in ways that they could just a few years ago.  

- Ajamu Baraka, writing for the Black Agenda Report on "the tactical failure" of Israel and the United States.