Julia S.

“Thus, by 1530, 69 percent of the enslaved in Puerto Rico—now a U.S. “possession”—were African.”
― Gerald Horne, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

“For the Negroes on the island” of Jamaica “being 80,000,” it was said in 1714, and the “white people not above 2000,” the former “may at any time rise and destroy the white people”; besides, Jamaica had a “formidable neighbour,” referring to the “French on Hispaniola,” which increased the peril, as the internal and external antagonists could combine.”
― Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

“Racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is a byproduct of capitalism.”
― Fred Hampton

“Use history to inform the present!”
― Dr. Gerald Horne