Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 Book

This might be the most important book I have ever read. It informed me of a vast and intentional erasure of America's history in global involvement and intervention. If you think that Trump is an anomaly, then you must read this book and re-evaluate America's project to see it for what it is--a mutated, but still evil and greed-filled, empire. Using liberalism as a facade to cover imperialist tendencies, America has projected a false notion of what democracy means and who it serves. The current discourse of "fake news," first embraced by the left, and then later harnessed by the right, has actually further distracted from the very real assertion that major media news agencies are owned by corporations. So, yes, of course they don't serve the public interest because they would lose money if they disrupted America's larger pretense of imperialism and colonial exploitation. Let's stop the hapless battle of mud-slinging and outrage over the crisis of fake news--there has always been a history of American intelligence communities shutting down independent presses in favor of propping up persons that disseminate a story of a noble America; there has always been a very real corporate and capitalist interest in maintaining America's credibility of innocence. I can only say this to my left-of-center friends (because there is more of chance, I think, to convince you)--please WAKE UP! America has always been engaged in a effort to ease perceptions of discontent over racial and human rights violations so that their corporate backed and controlled "democracy" can appear as the most egalitarian and fair system. This battle was fought in the context of an ideological obsession with maintaining capitalist democracy in the face of the rising prospect of communism. As the book details, America has always smeared and discredited activists; we have gone so far as to take away U.S. citizens' passports who were spreading a message to help build solidarity among those exploited in the process of conquer, enslavement, and colonization. Taken away passports! I don't mean to sound harsh, but the left cannot miss an opportunity to realize what "America" is and what it's intention always was: to protect and bolster empire, colonization, and corporate interests, to the detriment of an exploited peoples. So, please read this book!!