Ajamu Baraka: When the ideology of white supremacy that permeates all aspects of culture, politics, and social being in the U.S. is reduced to a focus on the more crude expressions of anti-black racism, it is easy to jump on a Sterling, Cliven Bundy, or Ted Nugent and completely miss the more pervasive, and thus insidious, structural and ideological expressions of white supremacy. I couldn’t care less about the racist rants of Donald Sterling when the more devastating expressions of white supremacy are reflected in national and global institutions. Those expressions are reflected in the racist NATO assault on Libya; IMF-imposed structural adjustment to force the “profligate natives” in the global South to stop wasting state resources on such trivialities as education, the arts, sports, and health; the rationalizations for the West’s “responsibility to protect”; the accepted racist musings of Charles Murray on black culture and educational ability; and the racist obscenity of attempting to wipe out a whole people and then subjecting their survivors to ridicule and disrespect with sports team names. Is there really a big leap between being unconcerned about the continued dehumanization of Native people in the U.S. and being similarly unconcerned about U.S. drone state terrorism that has killed thousands? More here.