And then.

The Hello everybody and welcome to the annual I guess at this point event in which the whole

Rev Left family comes together.

Last year we came together to answer a series of questions and this year we're coming together

to do a bit of a deeper dive on South African apartheid.

Of course this whole concept and this whole history

is becoming increasingly relevant in the face of what's going on

in Palestine currently.

And so we figured that having a sort of deep dive on South African apartheid could clarify some similarities, some differences with the case in Israel, as well as other, you know, related phenomena like segregation after failed

reconstruction in the American South.

In a lot of ways, and maybe there will be some disagreement on this going forward, but I see South African apartheid as sort of this mix of what

you know sort of Israeli settler colonialism and impression with some fundamental differences

and with you know Jim Crow in the South and

there's lots of sort of parallels between both and some interesting differences

that perhaps we can get into. I guess for lack of a better term we call episodes like this revolutionary

Gorilla Menace episodes of a sort of mixture of everything so this is really fun

and we don't get to do this as much as I think all of us would like so So it's always a pleasure to have Allison, Henry,

and Adnan together in the same place. I want to say up top as well that over on guerrilla history,

we did have a sort of introduction to South African apartheid.

It's a sort of a 101, you know, bird's eye view of some of the basics that help people that with little to know knowledge of this historical

phenomena historical

historical process at least sort of get there beak wet with regards to

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