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Episode 8 - Malcolm X, Resistance, Palestine and dismantling white supremacy | Prof. Rudolph Ware | UNAPOLOGETIC

Middle East Eye Season 1 Episode 8

“You (the coloniser) must punish them (the colonised) with a scale of violence that mocks the resistance”

Professor Rudolph Ware, also known as Butchware on social media, speaks about his upbringing and how reading the autobiography of Malcolm X inspired him.

He shares his thoughts on how he believes Malcolm X would have responded to the 7 October attacks, the important legacy and “moral obligation” to resist colonialism and how that applies to Palestinians.

Professor Ware explains how ‘exemplary violence’ was used to dehumanise slaves and how it is being applied by Israel in Palestine right now, while “liberal” media and “liberal” powers provide cover.

He also speaks about white supremacy. He criticises people who are platforming Candace Owens on Palestine as “hurtful” to the black community and damaging to fostering true solidarity. He pulls no punches. Shaun King, LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, Trevor Noah and the “crocodile tears” that are used to justify the spilling of the blood of brown and black people all come under the microscope.

00:00 intro
00:57 Professor Rudoplh Ware aka Dr. Belal
01:48 Any thinking black man in America is an expert on white supremacy
02:26 The drumbeat for dehumanization after October 7th
06:12 expand on 'they will kill your name and say that you liked it' 
07:40 "Do you condemn Hamas" as the question that precedes all other questions
08:50 Butchware's upbringing
11:30 world flips when moving to white suburbs
13:17 Deciding to study history and Malcolm X
15:00 Reading the autobiograohy of Malcolm X
19:45 how would Malcolm X would have responded to the events of Oct 7th?
23:40 Hamas's resistance within the framework of the power imbalance
27:30 The fiqh of fighting, resistance and being outnumbered
29:18 Exemplary violence, how it works and how it is being applied in Palestine
34:00 Zionism as White supremacy and disparity of violence
38:00 On being ambivalent about the genocide
41:20 on Mandela, if peace is not an option to move forward then you should fight
42:18 Weaponising white femininty to unleash violence on non-whites
47:20 White supremacy being dismantled
47:39 do you think that white supremacy is on the decline and why?
52:30 Zionims on its last gasp
55:40 support for Palestine vs opportunism, Candace Owen and Tucker Carlson
01:02:00 Palestinian Resistance does not need Shaun King
01:10:20 liberalism as a cover for Atrocities and how that works
01:16:22 white supremacists vs liberal white supremacists
01:19:40 liberal white supremacists' biggest fight with white supremacists is over the story that is being told
01:22:25 are these protests different because the kids protesting are dissasociating from the problem of liberalism
01:29:13 Nixon pulled out of Vietnam
01:33:13  Lebron James, Colin Kaepernick and Trevor Noah
01:37:19 the double standards of the media, the shift in the official/media narrative, no lessons learnt from the Iraq war 
01:44:04 unfinished question - on Israel losing/the Palestinians not giving up
1:46:30 Can the USA save itself
01:49:43 outro

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