Blacks in US have been colonized by white elite: Historian
Black people in the United States have been "conquered and colonized" by the white ruling class in the country and are considered “sub-human” in the US culture, an African American historian and researcher says.
“African American people are a conquered, ruled, colonized people much like the Palestinians, the Rohingyas or the Australian aborigines,” Dr. Randy Short told Press TV on Friday.
US police departments are trained by Israeli security forces to kill blacks and other minorities just like the Palestinians are killed, Dr. Short stated.
The researcher said African American communities in San Francisco, California, and other major US cities have been marginalized and even wiped out and they have fewer rights than homosexuals.
On Wednesday, an African American man was shot and killed in a barrage of gunfire by several police officers in San Francisco, which was partially captured on video by a bystander.
At least 8 officers fatally shot Mario Woods, 26, on Wednesday after he ignored commands to drop a knife, San Francisco police Sergeant Michael Andraychak said.
The 30-second video clip uploaded to social media on Wednesday shows the man staggering alongside the wall of a building when police begin to slaughter him with about 15 bullets.
It was the third fatal shooting by police in San Francisco since two officers shot and killed a man in October after they said he allegedly grabbed one of the officer's guns.
California “has more hate groups, more white supremacy, more Nazi groups than any state in the country,” Dr. Short noted.
“Racism and a desire to exterminate black people or at least severely marginalize and contain us is as American as apple pie and American imperialism and this has been going on for a very, very long time,” he said.
Wood’s mother said police executed her son, who she said suffered from mental illness but was struggling to turn his life around.
"He needed some help. He just needed some help,” Gwen Woods told ABC News as she grieved. "It was a better way of handling it than to put 25 bullets in my baby.”
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