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“Black Studies is interdisciplinary. It’s not just our history—it’s our literature, sociology, politics, everything.” – Howard Dean Johnson

Howard Dean Johnson offers a concise overview of Black Studies, highlighting its holistic approach to the Black experience worldwide. Unlike narrower “Black History” courses, Black Studies integrates multiple disciplines to examine social dynamics, political realities, and activism, giving a global framework for understanding race and racism.

✅ How Black Studies differs from standard Black History
✅ Interdisciplinary focus on literature, politics, sociology, and more
✅ An anti-racist activity—why activism is central to Black Studies

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'You can't use the word racism until you first grasp race.' – Howard Dean Johnson

DJ Nubian Kingz throws down the gauntlet: 'So, how would we define racism?'

Howard Johnson responds with a history-and-power primer that strips the fog from one of the most misused words in public debate.

✅ Racism comes from “race” as a project of colonial domination– 17th-century European elites needed a moral alibi for slavery and colonial plunder, so they essentialised skin tone, culture, blood, the soul, and geography into “natural inferiority.”

✅ Five interlocking layers – individual, psychological, institutional, systemic patterns that cross sectors, and structural frameworks that span entire societies. Remove the power component and you’re no longer talking about racism.

✅ Why Black-on-Black clashes are ethnic conflicts, not racism – Black people did not invent race, do not own its institutions, and therefore cannot deploy it structurally against each other or other groups.

✅ Language as a battlefield – every time we misuse “racism” we blur targets, misdiagnose problems, and stay racially illiterate. Precision in words is the first act of resistance.

🗣️ Johnson’s take is both a warning and a toolset: sharpen your vocabulary, map the power lines, and stop shadow-boxing invented enemies.

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“Scapegoating isn’t optional in a fascist society—it’s the engine.” – Howard Dean Johnson

In this rapid-fire exchange, Johnson shows how fascist regimes keep power by blaming an out-group—whether immigrants, black citizens, or anyone painted as “the problem.” He contrasts that with liberal democracies, which at least pretend to fairness even while inequity persists.

✅ Scapegoating is a built-in feature, not a bug, of fascist politics
✅ Economic pain is recast as “their fault”—immigrants, black people, the Other
✅ Liberal democracies claim equality, making open racism harder (though still real)
✅ Fascism drops the mask: nativists have rights; the scapegoated group does not

🗣️ Naming each scapegoat script is step one to shredding it.

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"Black people don’t understand race. That’s the problem." – Howard Dean Johnson

If you don’t understand the system, you’ll never be able to fight it. In this no-holds-barred Q&A, Howard Dean Johnson answers audience questions about the true mechanics of racism, the psychological impact of racial classification, and the global power structures that keep Black people on the margins. He exposes how many Black people remain racially illiterate—not because they lack intelligence, but because they have been systematically disconnected from knowledge of self.

This session dives deep into:

What it actually means to be Black and why many reject their African identity
The origins of racial classification and how the term “Black” was imposed
Pan-Africanism vs. individual survival in a system built on white domination
How systemic racism mutates to maintain its grip on Black people globally
The danger of racial illiteracy and why our children don’t understand race
This isn’t “diversity training.” This is the hard truth about how racism really works.

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"The reproduction of racism in white societies is very real, and we need to understand how it operates." – Howard Dean Johnson

Join Howard Dean Johnson at the Maat Centre in North London on March 15th at 5 PM for:

✅ Donald Trump’s reelection and the global spread of racism

✅ China’s intervention in Africa and its impact on Black communities

✅ Strategies to recognize and survive systemic oppression

Featuring insights from his book, The Racism Handbook for People Classified as Black, plus a live Q&A. Don’t miss this critical conversation on how racism reproduces itself—and what we can do to resist it.

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“It doesn’t matter how much formal schooling you have—if you don’t fully grasp race and racism, you’re racially illiterate.” – Howard Dean Johnson

In this short clip, Howard Dean Johnson explains why being educated doesn’t guarantee you understand race and racism. He warns that without a deep awareness of how racism functions psychologically, politically, and spiritually, you risk falling into racial illiteracy—a dangerous state for Black people navigating a white-dominated society.

✅ Why formal schooling doesn’t equal racial awareness
✅ The emotional & political toll of misunderstanding race
✅ How to confront racial illiteracy with honest self-study

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“A racist is morally reprehensible and mentally disturbed—they can’t see the humanity in someone else.” – Howard Dean Johnson

Here, Howard Dean Johnson defines individual racism and exposes the psychological mindset of racists—those who deny basic humanity to others on the basis of race. He points to historical examples like Immanuel Kant, showing how “enlightened” thinkers often held vicious racist beliefs, revealing a dangerous mental and moral distortion.

✅ Defining a racist—essentializing others based on colour
✅ Why racism indicates moral decay and mental disturbance
✅ Lessons from Kant’s “moral geography”—the hypocrisy of “great” philosophers

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“If we’re ‘people of colour,’ is 'coloured people' in reverse. That’s racism, straight up.”
- Howard Dean. Johnson

In this punchy exchange, Johnson argues that the phrase “people of colour” simply flips the old slur “coloured people,” keeping whiteness as the silent standard while relegating everyone else to the margins.

✅ Race as a colonial project: “people of colour” positions Black identity as a footnote to white normativity
✅ We are African people: reclaiming ancestry beats accepting a label designed by outsiders
✅ Power test: if whiteness sets the yardstick, any counter-label still centres white supremacy
✅ Henry Louis Gates redux: how the memoir Coloured People helped mainstream the rebranded term in the 1990s
✅ Call to action: ditch the euphemism, embrace names that foreground Black and African realities

🗣️ Language shapes power!

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“There are two Chinas—one revolutionary, one capitalist.” – Howard Dean Johnson

Linking Mao-era solidarity to today’s trillion-dollar deals, the speaker shows how China zig-zags from ally to overlord in the global colour line—and why that shift matters for Black liberation everywhere.

✅ Malcolm X: Mississippi lynchings make no sense without the Congo in view
✅ Huey P. Newton’s 1971 visit—returns a Maoist, grafts Marxism onto Black nationalism
✅ Mao’s China arms anti-colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique & Guinea-Bissau
✅ Post-1978 pivot: WTO entry (2001) → $400 bn in African mines & ports
✅ Debate on the floor: strategic socialism-in-waiting or straight-up white supremacy?

🗣️ Power keeps changing costumes; naming each disguise is step one to dismantling it.

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