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Then too, there is Europe to consider. Finally, after centuries, a purely European war is unthinkable, but the peace has difficulties. Rough times for Europe in 1985: high unemployment, signs of racism, terrorism, ennui. So far all the dreams of a unified Continent have resulted in a relatively successful economic alliance but not a political entity...
Skeptics, however, warned that the affair could prove a well-publicized waste of time. The U.S. especially feared that Nairobi could become a reprise of the 1980 conference on women in Copenhagen, where discussions about employment, health and education were sidetracked by heated confrontations among delegates over Zionism, imperialism, racism--essentially every ism but feminism...
...contentious kickoff meeting in Mexico City in 1975 and its politically charged midpoint conclave in Copenhagen in 1980. But one by one, divisive issues were ironed out. One of the most sensitive of these was defused when the host Kenyan delegation succeeded in removing language equating Zionism with racism. "I said I was coming home with a document that did not have Zionism in it," said President Reagan's daughter Maureen, head of the 29-member U.S. delegation...
...King of our memorials is remembered as a nonviolent agitator for black civil rights. This King supposedly managed to achieve a national consensus to grant black civil rights and was ultimately responsible for creating the purportedly racism-free environs we inhabit today. But the real King moved beyond this limited view of equality and began to incorporate elements of Third World radicalism, black nationalism, and Marxism into his understanding of geopolitics and the United States’ race problem. Confronted with the quagmire of Vietnam, the rise of Third World anti-colonialism, American imperialism (under the benign name of Cold...
...derailed the support of the black freedom struggles of the 1960s, King began to see that America’s global imperialism, obsessive pursuit of free market capitalism, and white supremacy are intimately intertwined and connected to each other. Reconciling his profoundly humanist sentiments with the reality of modern racism, capitalism, and imperialism, King saw black civil rights as merely a prelude to the larger struggle for the achievement of a common humanity worldwide. King began to speak more frequently of blacks as a people within America, with a singular history separate to and, at times, oppositional to the dominant...