May We Forever Stand by Imani Perry

Author:Imani Perry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2018-04-27T04:00:00+00:00

Hunton’s radicalism was thoroughgoing and deviated from both the sexist and anti-intellectual tenor of much of American political discourse. He describes anticolonialist organizing in Ghana, Nigeria, and Somalia, emphasizing the importance of both intellectuals and women in the development of African liberation movements: “In Africa as in Negro America, black women have been in the vanguard of the fight for freedom. They have gone on strike against the vicious pass system in South Africa and against the head tax in Nigeria. They have been jailed and beaten and killed along with their husbands and brothers.” He concludes with a global critique of domination, fascism, and capitalism:

Here in America, too, the Negro people’s struggle for full equality and democracy is at the core of the fight against American fascism. The fight of black Americans for their rights is the Achilles heel of American reaction. . . . Thus are the struggles of the 180 million Africans and the 15 million black Americans closely linked. To allow these front lines of the war against imperialism to be breached and broken is unthinkable, to strengthen them is to guarantee the successful building of a new world order of peace, friendship and equality among all people.

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