Showing posts with label Fascism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fascism. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2026

The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe

By George Yancy

Black anti-fascists have long warned about creeping fascism, from slavery to mass incarceration to ICE terror.

Back in 2016, I was asked what I thought about Donald Trump. Even back then, I saw him as an aspiring fascist, and I responded:

Simply put. He is a conduit through which white America expresses its most vile desire for white purity. An apocalyptically dangerous white man who sees himself as the center of the world. That kind of hubris bespeaks realities of genocide.