> In 2018, he successfully led a campaign to force the University of Ghana to remove a statue of India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.<p>Standing at the empty plinth, he gave the Black Power salute, and called for the recognition of African heroes rather than a man who had once referred to black South Africans by a highly offensive racist slur - and had said that Indians were "infinitely superior" to black people.
Sad to see my submission flagged! Posted it because I came across this story on a reputable site (BBC) and I was wondering what people abroad, especially US, might think of it. I've lived my whole life in Europe so I don't have much context about the issue.
The structural racism that my family faces because of the fact that I am married to a non-citizen SE Asian is a big reason I don't relocate my family back to the US. And this is a bipartisan issue. The issues discussed in the article there or that I have experienced have very little to do with one party alone.<p>The US built its industrial base on the backs first of slaves then of the freed slaves, poor immigrants (particularly from China) and dispossessed Latinos whose land claims were not recognized post-annexation. Until we understand that racism in the US is a tool of classism and we address the underlying economic injustices, there will be no social justice. But there is no political party willing to take that on and no real hope for the foreseeable future.