Settler colonialism

Here at home, why you go overseas and plot, destroy independent nations and kill their leaders because you want their resources.

And the more you start understanding white supremacy, understand settler colonialism.

It's one of the same.

Now for the senators who knew that drunk Pete Hapsett weekend Fox host to put him in the Pentagon, they knew exactly what he was sent there to do.

They're gonna go into Jordan.

They're gonna take all that land because they wanna expand.

This is white settler colonialism.

Now here at home, those same racist motherfuckers who have dealt with my ancestors for over 400 years and 250 years, we know played bulk.

Yeah.

And, and, and I also just think, like I make a distinction between, between like settler colonialism as an analytic framework for thinking about political economy, where I think it's, you know, bang right.

I mean, I think that the, uh, that's, you know, I mean, I think the basic distinction, I mean, you already get in like Karl Kautsky, right, Socialism and, and Political...

Sorry, Soc- Socialism and Colonial Policy.

Uh, whereas, whereas Israel corresponds to what he would, he would call a work colony, right? Or what Marx is calling a true colony at the, uh, the last chapter of Capital, which, which is a colony where you're, you're importing a new labor force-

Right

... to, to, to work there, which is, again, basically the distinction that people who talked about settler colonialism as a framework for thinking about political economy are talking about.

It's like, yeah, I think that's a useful distinction.

Dr. Maile is an assistant professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, where his work focuses on Hawaiian sovereignty, activism, and decolonization.

He's also the author of the book Gifts of Sovereignty, Capitalism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Politics in Hawaii.

Dr. Maile, thank you so much for joining us today.

Yeah, thanks for the invitation.

One of the ways that this occurs in regards to the Hawaiian language is that it was banned.

the republic of hawaii i believe before the territorial period banned the hawaiian language and that law was still in the books for decades and decades and decades so not only was there this ideological cultural and educational disciplining and regulation there was a legal governing that bans the indigenous language of Hawaii.

There's all sorts of reasons for that, right? That we can think about and unpack, but this is a story of colonialism and also settler colonialism from the U.S.

perspective more broadly.

What's his word? Interlopers? Meaning like invaders or whatever? um so he says the the charge now we've moved on to another charge by the way he didn't defend the apartheid charge at all or the war crimes charge he just he just mentioned that they're charges and then just danced around the fact that they're both obviously true like i don't know israel's had control of like six or seven million people that have been denied voting rights for 60 years it's an apartheid state um and yes do they commit war crimes almost every war crime in the book Yes.

Anyway, so now we're on to the charge of settler colonialism.

And I mean, it's just does everybody see? Is my job even necessary anymore? Everyone sees the dirty trick he just pulled, right? He goes, oh, they're settler colonials.

They're interlockers.

So the accusation is they're settler colonial.

Sorry.

settler colonialism that they would be settler colonizers so that's the accusation but how could they be invaders how could modern israel be invaders when we know archaeologists could tell you jews have been here all along okay well the dirty trick there is that modern israel and jews are not interchangeable terms and of course this is ridiculous like all right First of all, the founders of Israel were European.

They weren't the Jews who were there the entire time.

In the last two years, Dr. Horne has penned several books focusing on the Americas, Race to the Revolution, The U.S. and Cuba During Slavery, and Jim Crow.

the counterrevolution of 1776, slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America, confronting Black Jacobins, the United States, the Haitian Revolution, the origins of the Dominican Republic, Negro Comrades of the Crown, African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation, and his most recent book, which is The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, the Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean.

He is the author of more than 30 books and 100 scholarly articles and reviews.

Gerald, thanks for joining Africa Today.

And then this book, Facing the Rising Sun, African-Americans, Japan and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity.

Tell

us, before we go the direction of the book that we have in front of us, which is The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in the 17th Century, North America and the Caribbean.

Tell us a bit about the – we were talking about that in the studio, the Afro-Asian, rising South African-American Japan and the rise of Afro-Asian.

On the other hand, Native Nations share some common experiences, though they've happened in different ways, times, and places.

Those common experiences are a result of settler colonialism, a force that binds Native histories together.

Remember back in the intro when I said that there's one thing that unites our histories? This is that thing.

Let me break it down.

Nigerians still live there, but their lives were never the same.

The settler part takes this a step beyond.

The goal of settler colonialism is to remove and erase the people already living in a place so that a new group can move in instead, and this isn't just describing a single historical event or person, but yes, talking about you.

Settler colonialism describes a system, and the history of the whole United States was shaped by this system.

He followed the post with this response, obviously you don't want your followers to see the nappy-headed racist black woman's post, to which I responded.

Now Davis said all of this in reference to a video of Socialism 2026 speaker Raven Schwarm Curtis, who's been on this show as she was discussing settler colonialism.

Here's what she said.

So Tiffany King is an incredible scholar.

And her work really focuses on abolitionism, decolonialism, and thinking about those things through the lens of black studies and native and indigenous studies.

And she has this incredible book called Black Shoals.

And in that book, she talks about this tension of like, well, when we paint black people with that same broad brushstroke of settler colonialism, that's actually inaccurate.

We're not being precise in our language.