WHITE SUPREMACY

Photo from demonstration in New York City--Courtesy of David Boothman

"This killer dressed in police uniform did, indeed, pull the trigger—perhaps as many as a dozen times—but, ultimately, it was white supremacy that gunned down Michael Brown. It is because of white supremacy that a young Black man in the United States is twenty-one times more likely to be shot dead by the police than a young white man." (Cited from the Preface of THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE)

PUBLICATION DATE:  DECEMBER 16

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THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE

COMING IN TWO WEEKS

Ian Isidore Smart argues compellingly that white supremacy bears the main burden of guilt in The Gunning Down of Michael Brown. It is because of white supremacy that a young Black man in the United States is twenty-one times more likely to be shot dead by the police than a young white man. White supremacy is the ideology on which our nation, and, indeed, Western civilization itself is founded. Smart cuts to the chase, confronting the dreadful scourge but avoiding the “paralysis of analysis.” The Afrocentric response he presents is the rising up the Black people of the planet to take control of our situation, harkening to Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s counsel, “do for self.”

This book is the perfect sequel to Smart’s Occupying Western Civilization: Debunking the White Supremacist Narrative (first published 2012).

“BLACK LIVES MATTER”

“BLACK LIVES MATTER”

This is one of the messages frequently appearing on the placards at the demonstrations. Well, if Black lives really do matter, why is the upper administration at the nation’s premiere HBCU (Historically BLACK College / University) uneasy with Afrocentrism and Pan-Africanism?

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My forthcoming book, THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE, will be released on DECEMBER 16. This is the opening paragraph of the Preface:

     By the time the book is published, the 2014 midterm elections will have been decided and POTUS may well find himself down 1 to 3 against the combined SCOTUS-House-Senate team; and the  prosecutor in The Gunning Down of Michael Brown will most likely still be holding off the announcement of his decision not to indict the killer cop. This killer dressed in police uniform did, indeed, pull the trigger—perhaps as many as a dozen times—but, ultimately, it was white supremacy that gunned down Michael Brown. It is because of white supremacy that a young Black man in the United States is twenty-one times more likely to be shot dead by the police than a young white man.