The C.​O.​W.​S. Dr. Colin Anthony Beckles PanAfrican Sites of Resistance Part 4 #BlackPowerDesk #DavidRuggles

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 4th study session on Dr. Colin Anthony Beckles' PanAfrican Sites of Resistance: Black Bookstores and The Struggle To Re-Present Black Identity. This 1995 dissertation is the first time in the illustrious 14 year history of The Katherine Massey Book Club that we will read a non-book. Dr. Beckles conducted an extraordinary amount of research and produced several reports documenting the import of black bookstores and the intense Racism targeting them globally. Having just completed Char Adams' Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore, Gus concluded that text willfully excluded Dr. Frances Cress Welsing and Neely Fuller Jr. to stress anti-sexual behavior and to practice black misandry. Reading Dr. Beckles' - who is briefly mentioned in Adams' work, dissertation is the corrective to Black-Owned. Last week, we learned intense details about how System of White Supremacy is enforced in all areas of people activity in the United Kingdom. Racist Jokes & songs, denial of employment & just wages, direct violence, and Racist labels for black students like: "educationally subnormal (ESN)." Dr. Beckles highlights the "Windrush Generation," black people born in the Caribbean "colonies," who were welcomed to clean up Britain on the cheap after the Nazis left Europe in ruins. We also learned about one of Gus' all-time favorites, Suspected Race Soldier Enoch Powell and the "Rivers of Blood" speech - which was widely featured during the 2011 London Riots. Black British bookstores formed in direct response to the System of White Supremacy. They also borrowed heavily from Victims of Racism in the US. #BlackPowerDesk #ConnorMcGregor INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#