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Hoda Katebi, an Iranian-American Muslim woman recently appeared on WGN News Chicago with the understanding that she would be discussing her work as a fashion blogger. \u00a0Instead of the latest fashion trends and models, the WGN news anchor did a bait and switch, saying, \u201cLet\u2019s talk about nuclear weapons. Some of our viewers may say we can\u2019t trust Iran.<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Just based upon her mere ethnic background as an Iranian, the anchor thought it was permissible to center the discussion upon alleged \u00a0actions of the Iranian government as opposed to Kaebi\u2019s work in the fashion industry.<\/span><\/p>\n She eloquently rebutted the news anchor\u2019s \u201cpoint\u201d by highlighting the many reasons why the U.S. government cannot be trusted\u2013 the U.S. is a country built on the backs of Black slaves and has consistently meddled in the internal affairs of other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n By saying this, Katebi alludes to a much greater point, that speaks to the racism inherent in the achor\u2019s questions. \u00a0Citing a 1979 report by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, \u00a0Barbara Omolade \u00a0in Women of Color and the Nuclear Holocaust, indicates that , \u201cin a general nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, 25 to 100 million people would be killed. This is approximately \u00a0the same number of African people who died between 1492 and 1890 as a result of the African slave trade to the New World.<\/span>\u201d <\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While White Americans fear \u201cbig bad\u201d Iran potentially developing a nuclear arsenal, Black people have already experienced a functional equivalent in terms of total death mass, as a result of the transatlantic slave trade perpetrated by the European powers and the U.S government.<\/span><\/p>\n Hoda and the Hypocrisy of Israeli Discourse on Iranian Nukes\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In her interview, \u00a0Hoda Katebi brilliantly points out that, \u201cIsrael profits from the dehumanization of Muslims.\u201d <\/span>Indeed, a textbook case of this occured when the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu stated, \u201cThe greatest danger confronting Israel, the Middle East, the entire world and human race, is the nexus between radical Islam and nuclear weapons<\/a>. \u201c \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While Netanyahu like this WGN news anchor would like the entire world to join in on their fears of a nuclear armed Iran, Israel had no consideration for the well-being of Blacks when the architect of Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons program, Dr. Ernest David Bergmannan visited apartheid, South Africa and actively sought technological-military alliance with the regime. <\/span><\/p>\n In fact, after Israel performed a military operation to destroy Iraq\u2019s nuclear reactor, the chief of staff \u00a0of the Israeli defense force, Raful Eitan wrote a letter to Magnus Malan, the head of the apartheid defense forces boasting \u201c<\/span>We did the deed with iron determination not to allow these crazy Arabs to possess nuclear weapons.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n In Israel\u2019s minds, \u201ccrazy Arabs\u201d were devoid of the competence or civility required to possess nuclear weapons yet Israel apparently believed the racist folks of South Africa had such rationality \u00a0<\/span>when Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to the apartheid, regime of <\/span><\/a>\u00a0South Africa and provided \u00a0<\/span>apartheid South Africa thirty grams of tritium, a radioactive substance which is used to boost the explosive power of atomic bombs.<\/span><\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With Israel seeking to help apartheid South Africa obtain nuclear weapons, \u00a0Israel cannot prove it is \u00a0more competent and ethical to possess nuclear weapons than Iran.\u00a0<\/span>Moreover, \u00a0contrary to Netanyahu\u2019s assertion, the greatest threat facing humankind is not \u201cradical Islam\u201d, its white supremacy, white racists; \u00a0illegitimate white settler colonies.<\/p>\n This has been the greatest threat to humanity for at least 500 years,\u2014 ask the Tiano Indians, Tasmanian Aboriginals, and the Herero and Namaqua people. \u00a0Yet, \u00a0in a world of white supremacy, only white western nations are seen as having the rationality, prudence, \u00a0and civility to assume the great responsibility of possessing nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n Racist Discourse on Nuclear Weapons\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Indeed, within western discourse, the fact that North Korean leader \u00a0Kim Jong un and the \u00a0Iranian Supreme leader, Sayyid Ai Hosseini Khamenei \u00a0cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons is taken as a given. Yet, very rarely do we question the competence of white American presidents to have such nuclear weapons. \u00a0It is time we do just that. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Under president Harry Truman, the United States became the first country to ever use a nuclear weapon in warfare. \u00a0\u00a0Truman\u2019s biographical background reveals blatant racism. In a letter, Truman writes,\u201d<\/span>I think one man is just as good as another so long as he\u2019s honest and decent and not a ni\u2013er or a Chinaman.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0In reference to an uncle of his,\u00a0 Truman writes, \u201dHe does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is a race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion that negros ought to be in Africa, yellow men in Asia and white men in Europe and America.\u201d Other times, Truman\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>called Dr. Martin Luther King a \u201ctroublemaker.<\/a>\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When an anti-lynching bill came up in congress to \u00a0protect African-Americans from the wanton violence they were subjected to, Truman told southern colleague, \u201cYou \u00a0know, I am against this anti lynching bill.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0This is essentially the racist character of a man who chose to drop an atomic bomb on Japan killing thousands of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While there is immense public outrage about whether the alleged sporadic behavior of Kim Jung Un, makes him fit to possess a nuclear arsenal, no such outrage emerged as to whether the racism of Truman made him unfit to possess a nuclear arsenal.\u00a0 Truman often boasted he never lost any sleep nor felt any remorse for his bombing of Japan.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Given Truman\u2019s confessed hatred of the Japanese people, its not hard to see why.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, even today President Don<\/span>ald Trump has insulted African nations as shitho<\/span><\/a>les, <\/span>threated to kill the innocent family members of individuals accused of terrorism, <\/span><\/a>\u00a0and u<\/span>tilized racial slurs against Native Americans,<\/span><\/a> If you think it\u2019s anymore ethical\u00a0 or rational for President Donald Trump to exercise control over nuclear weapons than King Jong Un or Sayyid Ai Hosseini Khameni you might be infested with white supremacy just like Truman.<\/span><\/p>\n Stay Woke\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n All oppressed peoples can learn from Sister Hoda Katebi. \u00a0Oppressed people have no time to entertain white fears with this fictional \u00a0belief that radical Muslim boogeyman out there with nuclear weapons \u00a0are out to \u201cget us\u201d. \u00a0Like Sister Hoda Katebi, stay woke and focus on the true enemy: \u00a0U.S. imperialism, white capitalism,\u00a0 and white supremacy. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hoda Katebi, an Iranian-American Muslim woman recently appeared on WGN News Chicago with the understanding that she would be discussing her work as a fashion blogger. \u00a0Instead of the latest fashion trends and models, the WGN news anchor did a bait and switch, saying, \u201cLet\u2019s talk about nuclear weapons. 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