Christopher Columbus…set in motion an act of criminality that effects our very lives today. It laid the basis for Western racism, it laid the basis for misconceptions about people, it laid the basis for extensive use of organized religion as a rationale for the enslavement of people. It’s a recurring event in history…
…we’re dealing with a rise of a concept that has taken hold of the minds of most of the world, and people throughout the world are now fighting to get away from that concept, and a whole lot of people are prisoners to that concept.
-Dr. John Henrik Clarke