Colonialist discourse This book talks about postcolonialism and the US intersecting and I echo it "Eric Cheyfitz's essay alerts us to the fact that Buell's analogy between the postcolonial United States and postcolonial Africa, in indigenizing the European immigrants, denies the previous and ongoing existence of indigenous cultures in America. Buell's Emersonian reading of Melville's writings, moreover (he reads Redburn as a mental act of decolonization from the cultural dominance of England), reduces Melville's transnational anti-imperialist vision to a tête-à-tête with the mother country and ignores the text's references to slavery, the middle passage, and Indian dispossession (Buell, "Melville"). And finally, his choice of contemporary African literature in constructing a transhistorical comparison with early America's struggle for cultural independence symptomatically effaces the historical importance of Africa and African people in the ...
PROSECUTOR IMPLIES DONALD TRUMP IS GUILTY (see here ) A jury deliberated for two days and found two corporate entities at the Trump Organization guilty on all 17 counts – including conspiracy charges and falsifying business records. Trump himself was not on trial. But prosecutors alleged that he “knew exactly what was going on” with the ‘scheme.’ Trump and the company’s lawyers have denied that, and so did the defendants. Though he testified as a prosecution witness, Weisselberg took responsibility on the witness stand. He said nobody in the Trump family knew what he was doing. Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty to dodging taxes on $1.7 million in fringe benefits, testified that he and Controller Jeffrey McConney conspired to hide that extra compensation from his income by deducting their cost from his pre-tax salary and issuing falsified W-2 forms. He said he “betrayed” the family’s trust. A Trump Organization spokesperson said, “The notion that...
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