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The prophet and Black Power: Trotsky on race in the US In January 1917, after being deported from European country to country as a political exile from Russia, Trotsky was allowed to travel to America with his family where he rented an apartment in New York. As he recalled in My Life, it was here he first began to understand something of racism and resistance in the United States: http://isj.org.uk/the-prophet-and-black-power-trotsky-on-race-in-the-us/