Seeing our home planet from afar, he wrote, prompted an epiphany: "The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied".
So, in December 1968 Apollo 8 transmitted pictures of Earth from a lunar orbit and we could, the Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins later said, see 'an Earth as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied'.
As black consciousness grew during the Civil Rights era, people began to not only be proud of their African heritage, but to view the black ghettos in all major urban areas as occupied territories, subject to brutality from a militaristic local police force, and groups like the Black Panther Party saw the "pigs" as the enforcers of a white supremacist, capitalist system.
As for Boyhood – if I "really want to understand what's happening to me," as bell hooks said when explaining her phrase "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" – it's a real trip to make sense of what's going on when my heart is digging a movie but my mind is telling me something's up.
As we heal from white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, trauma or whatever it is we are healing from.
As mentor-mentee and friends, Ibrahim and I shared our personal experiences of the daily costs of imperialist, white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy.
The phrase hooks used throughout this book is "white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy and she discusses the way these interlocking systems of domination operate to perpetuate sexual racism, domestic violence, misogyny, economic injustice, and other forms of social injustice.
If the past few months in the music industry have left you demoralized -- what with the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and all -- Lily Allen might make you feel better, emphasis on might.
