Columns - Saturday, April 26, 2008 18:07 - 3 Comments
A new American corporate presence on campus greeted students eager to start the new academic year. No, this wasn’t McDonald’s (which would never be accepted) or Coke (which has long been accepted) but something between the two – Starbucks.
In less than 200 pages, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, written by Stokley Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, virtually decimates any book published recently in terms of perception, understanding and potential.
The ever-increasing infringements on civil liberties in Britain, the widespread acceptance of imprisonment without trial, and the rise of the ubiquitous CCTV camera, have seen calls for increased checks on the state’s power. But what if the state itself is the problem?