A month after the World Cup ended, the spectacle is gone. The racial and political tensions it exposed are not, as Argentina’s President Javier Milei, much like Trump, stokes racial tensions to cover for a sick economy and its savage inequalities.
From Nairobi cab stands to Lagos livestreams, Africans who once sheltered the ANC's revolutionaries are celebrating every defeat of South Africa's national team, as mobs with machetes hunt immigrants door to door in Johannesburg and Durban to the chant of "abahambe," they must leave. It is MAGA's playbook and ICE's manhunt run on African soil, colonial violence surviving its colonizers.
Kansas City wants to be the first city in the country to scan the face of every person who boards a public bus. The riders it would test the technology on are its poorest and its Blackest, and the company behind the cameras is a penny stock fronted by a man whose last company collapsed in fraud.
Black South Africans, Among Others, Say That They Were Left Holding the Bag After Hosting the Quadrennial Soccer Tournament in 2010.
Organizers from nine host cities previewed an independent readiness scorecard this morning, one scored not by officials but by the people who have to live with the result.
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