Rogue Ideology: They Love You If You’re Dead! – Represent Our Resistance

In the history that Obama seems determined to excise from the American public’s collective memory is the little business of one group, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC). Founded in 1919, by white Southerners, the CIC recruited “middle class black and white people,” Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore writes (Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950), to work for “legal and economic justice” and “better educational and living conditions” for Black Southerners without intent to “over turn Jim Crow.” The CIC didn’t support the idea of Black American participation as full citizens in the U.S.

With Woodrow Wilson, the Southern Solution expanded to the sovereign Black nation of Haiti in the person of the secretary of the Navy (chief functionary in Haiti) who implemented Jim Crow in Haiti from 1915 to 1934, in an occupation that witnessed a “reign of terror” by military personnel and an attempt to suppress its liberation narrative and resisters. From the functionary John Yoo ‘s torture memo, 2003:

This is an example of the manifestations of racist policies expanded to serve the interests of the Amerikkkan Empire. As Gilmore writes, “throughout the occupation of Haiti, the Southern Solution becomes U.S. foreign policy, much as it had become domestic policy in the early days of the Wilson administration.”