We are joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, historian and chair of history and
African American Studies at the University of Houston, warns DC
activists that they are probably the most heavily surveilled in the
nation, and that this administration appears to be pulling out all the
stops to smear and prosecute them. Fascism arrives on little cat feet,
he says, and it is imperative to block it now, before that fist can
fully form and fall. For whatever reason, the black community and its
allies have finally snapped, and we may be on the verge of more than a
long, hot summer. They discuss historical mechanisms used to disrupt
protest movements and parallels to effective paths we’ve seen in the
past, and his fears that this wall-to-wall media coverage of today’s
protests will still somehow miss the point.