The Global African takes a look at the prejudice currently in the Dominican Republic, the history of segregation in public spaces, and a special comment on the Charleston shooting.
Bill Fletcher Jr (born 1954) has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.
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What is deeply disturbing about these excellent documentaries, produced by Professor Bill Fletcher, Jr. , is that the tragedies that occurred in McKinney, Texas and Charleston, South Carolina and also the ongoing tragedy of the racist mass expulsion of Haitians from the Dominican Republic to Haiti by the government of the Dominican Republic is a consequence of the legacy of racism, imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism in the Americas that is becoming much more sophisticated through contemporary globalization and neoliberalism. It is vividly illustrated by the European colonial settler who came to the Americas in which they introduced slavery and plundered, decimated, and exterminated rich, complex Native American civilizations, justifying their greed, savagery, selfishness, and depravity as Manifest Destiny and civilizing these ancient civilization supposedly in the name of God. This infamous justification is a result of the Spanish catholic arrogance that is deeply rooted in the Spanish Inquisition, extended to the Americas, and the conquest of the Americas by the Spanish conquistadores/conquerors. Thus, this is the enormous tragedy of the western imperialistic ethic that is still continuing and that we must eradicate totally.