COLONIALISM, until 1945 at least, is synonymous with the modern world: machines, capital, the military, skin color called ‘white’, peoples with scientific discoveries, entrepreneurs who roam the world.

Beneath their power, people of varied skin pigment bowed low. Especially Black: the color that, like a dark blanket, covers, protects, unites, marks and stigmatizes those forced outside the fence.

This was noted long before ‘Bla