Black revolutionary Malcolm X famously said that Black America didn’t experience an “American Dream,” only an American nightmare. The
so-called American Dream continues to be a nightmare. US imperialism
has successfully held Black America in political captivity in the
Democratic Party despite the self-proclaimed “lesser evil” party having
played a vital role in every ill that befalls Black people. Democratic
Administrations have been the architects of the mass incarceration
regime in the United States, partners in the world incineration regime
known as the U.S. military state, and active participants in the theft
of nearly every dollar of Black wealth that existed prior to 1983.
Hillary Clinton is the Democratic Party’s top sponsor of the American
nightmare for Black Americans and she is once again making headlines in
an apparent attempt to assert herself in the upcoming Presidential
election of 2020.
It may only be 2018, but the divided and increasingly unpopular
Democratic Party has been testing the Presidential waters since Clinton
lost in 2016. For Black America and all of humanity’s exploited and
downtrodden, Clinton’s reemergence is a dangerous reminder of who she
really is: a “too big to fail” parasite of finance capital and the war
machine. In an interview with The Guardian, Clinton remarked that Europe must “get a handle” on
its immigration problem to stop the march of the far right. What
Clinton meant was that Europe should further militarize its immigration
policy to appease racist Europeans. She of course didn’t mention that
European imperialism, under the leadership of the United States, is the
real culprit in the refugee crisis. To do so would be an admission of
guilt, as few others are more responsible for the massive displacement
of peoples that has occurred worldwide since 2011 than Hillary Clinton.
It is no secret to most people around the world that the U.S.-NATO
invasion of Libya engineered the largest refugee crisis in human
history. However, few in the United States remember Clinton cackling to
the corporate press “we came, we saw, he died” after
U.S.-backed jihadists ruthlessly assassinated Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi. What came after the destruction of Libya was anything but
laughable. The Obama and Clinton-led U.S.-NATO-Zionist and Gulf state
alliance quickly moved on to Syria and, as the Black Alliance for Peace explains ,
expanded their reign of terror in Africa by way of the U.S. African
Command (AFRICOM). Millions of Syrians and Northern Africans from
nations such as Mali have been displaced by jihadists armed with
imperial military gear and a mission to sow political and economic
chaos. As Black Agenda Report Editor Glen Ford stated in 2016,Turkey
and Europe have been trafficking humans on a scale not seen since the
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Despite this, Clinton stated that she wanted
to gift the planet with more refugees in the 2016 election. Clinton
called for a no-fly zone in Syria, a code word for a massive bombing campaign that would surely have led to a military confrontation with Russia if carried out.
-- Danny Haiphong, "Hillary Clinton 2020 is Malcom X's American Nightmare on Steroids" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).