I can't quote this enough
"You're presupposing that political violence will disappear through an election rather than go underground or just put on a new uniform" - Dr. Joy James
These are the days where I appreciate the framework of colonialism/Neo-colonialism. When you understand that there's nothing confusing about Black cops. The colony always recruits the colonized to do its bidding.
The US and Israel is not making the "nuanced" distinctions between Hamas and Palestinians yall are wasting your time making. They bombing everyone regardless. Condemn that.
The White House just compared “anti-Israel protesters” — the phrase used by the Fox News reporter in his question — to the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville.
It's true that imbecilic white men are undermining a credentialed Black woman judge, but it is also true that the same judge will assist in advancing the US empire. There's no need to use the former to excuse the latter. We already learned this lesson with Obama.
Black elites that ain't said shit about the genocide of Palestine, the censoring of pro- 🇵🇸 students and lower level faculty— now got an opinion when one of the "First Blacks" get hit too. Laundering in real time.
The Cop City RICO indictments allege the date when George Floyd was murdered by the police as the start of the "racketeering enterprise." Let that sink in.
The day a movement to abolish the police took on new life is the day for them a criminal enterprise was born.
JUST IN US Secretary of State Tony Blinken, says Washington has "serious concerns that the results announced do not reflect the will of the Venezuelan people...the international community is watching this very closely and will respond accordingly."
"You cannot claim to be radical, revolutionary or anti imperialist and you allow the state to define and set the rules of engagement. Ain't no such thang as legal resistance." - Shaka Shakur
There's a ton of Black-led institutions living off the cache and social capital of Black Radicalism that actively block it from ever reaching everyday Black people in any substantive form. It's a major headache for any serious organizing but it must be struggled against.
What people call black Wall Street is largely a myth as we have covered on
@blackmythspod
and Im writing further about in my upcoming book but it seems like he has the right sentiment of servicing community. Unfortunately, black capitalism is the wrong remedy
Jaylen Brown, who recently signed the biggest contract in NBA history, says he wants to use it to combat the “unsettling” wealth disparity in Boston
“I want to launch a project to bring Black Wall Street to Boston and help bridge the wealth gap.“
Interesting that as mass graves of children in Gaza are being revealed we are again forced into a discourse about antisemitism. Per usual, there's little condemnation of Isr*el's actions from these people so concerned with protests. It's not worth engaging
"A leftist who warns of the rise of fascism as evidenced by the destruction of mail-sorting machines and the appearance of unmarked vehicles at protests in a country that has prison farms, is one for whom Black life has not counted." -
@furtherblack
Hmmm I don't know. If I can choose to have to ignore an entire genocide of people when I vote, maybe I shouldn't be the one calling anyone else "privileged." Just a thought.
The "radical" 2010s lingo is now laundered to crush dissent against genocide. Reducing everything to interpersonal drama is how we get protesting a black woman running for president as a "microagression."
By definition, harm reduction means harm will be REDUCED. If you're voting for the same genocidal policy, that's not a reduction. That's just a continuation of the same genocide.
I have a sincere question for everyone who doesn’t see a vote for Harris as a means for harm reduction: you don’t think Trump’s support of Israel won’t be substantially worse?
Not saying the supreme court decision is inconsequential (its not), but all these presidents are war criminals. Let's not act like the "rule of law" was upheld up to this point. If anything, it's the so-called law that upholds the crimes.
THERE WAS NO FUCKING "CLASH"
@CNN
. FIX THIS HEADLINE!
Violent Zionist freaks have been messing with the UCLA camp for the past week! EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. The violence and blame falls solely on the Zionists. This is bullshit
@MelAlonsoCNN
The U.S. will find a group of 5 random people in a foreign country, fund them and then say they're the "true" leaders for "independence" and "freedom from the "authoritarian" dictators. This shit played.
Laundering Black Rage
"The self-determination of Black power is pigeonholed to front Black capitalism, the anger and suffering of the Black poor is liquidated to front rich Black entertainers' ambitions."
New piece
@blkagendareport
. 🧵(1/11)
Notice when mass graves of dead Palestinians are found in hospitals, the US deflects, but when Israeli hostages are found dead they immediately gas the story for political gain without any investigation into what happened.
I've worked tirelessly to bring Hersh home, and Jill and I could not be more heartbroken by the news of his death.
It is tragic and reprehensible.
Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes. And we'll continue working towards a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages.
I see BLM criticisms are trending again. As deserving as they are of criticism, I argue they're a small keg in an even worse extractive process of laundering Black Rage. BLMGFN is just one of many fronts for recapture when we follow the money.
Alot of these "higher wage" advertisements are BS. They be like "up to 22 an hour" and then in the job interview reveal it's really $10.50 with potential OT and a bonus in 12 years. Then the employer turns around and complains about nobody taking these "great opportunities." FOH
It's interesting how people's heros be all-powerful life-altering icons until criticism arrives. Then all of a sudden "its out of their hands" and "yall don't really understand how it works." Make up your minds, please.
So after all the hand wringing about "the radical left", recent polls show Biden losing his most support among moderates and centrists. Jokes write themselves.
It's not lost that as the labor movement grows much of Black world is engulfed in Black business wealth building shams. Trust there's more power in labor than myths like Black Buying Power.
BREAKING| Farouq Khateeb from Ramallah, West Bank, has been released from an Israeli jail. The photos show him before and after being kidnapped by Israeli forces.
Farouq was kidnapped 3 months ago and detained under administrative detention, without charge or trial.
Gotta love that thing Black elites do where they pretend to care about a few Black issues to shut down criticism about their warmongering candidates. "Have they said anything about mass incarceration or reparations?" Nigga u don't give a fuck about those either. STFU.
Mother Emanuel AME is hallowed ground in the AME church community and in Charleston especially. The shock of people in the crowd at protesters yelling out while President Biden was speaking from the pulpit cannot be overstated. I too couldn't believe it.
I got a short new piece in
@blkagendareport
on how the allure of Black representation stifles Black Working class power particularly in relation to the limited discussion in black media about
@Shut_downAmazon
the
@amazonlabor
victory.
Got a piece dropping later today on
@Mondoweiss
concerning Black liberalism, and its tendency to shit on any solidarity that doesn't match its class aspirations.
"Malcolm forced us to see—and we were very reluctant to see it—that our “negro leaders” were begging for entry into a system, a way of life which at its root [is] corrupt and spiritually dead." - Larry Neal
TRAILER: Proud to announce the upcoming release of the film I produced and edited, "The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up." It chronicles the case and struggles of Indiana political prisoners Christopher "Naeem" Trotter and John "Balagoon" Cole who were sentenced to 142 and 84 years
Like
@blackleftaf
said this is where privilege discourse betrays us. This is bigger than if white people have the freedom to be more violent than us. That's been obvious. This is something much worse.
"If revolution is tied to dependence on the inscrutabilities of "long-range politics," it cannot be made relevant to the person who expects to die tomorrow." - George Jackson
Thanks for sharing this
@Phil_Lewis_
for the
#Pendleton2
. If everyone can fill out this form to call for clemency and sentence modification it would be greatly appreciated.
ICYMI: Christopher Trotter had 3 months left in prison. He was looking forward to meeting his 3-yr-old daughter.
He tried to save another incarcerated man’s life in a fight against white supremacist guards—and was punished with over a century behind bars
The "we can walk and chew gum" people are down bad right now. Wars, military invasion, inflation etc and we talking about some celebrity that's been gone for 10 years minimum.
Re that LRT: no one wants to talk about it and everyone wants to point the blame somewhere else but a major reason the George Floyd era energy got squandered was because talented tenth Blacks/DEI folks sold out the lower class for their own gain
"After all, no matter who we “center” in our organizing culture’s thoughts and messages, there will be lead in our water until and unless we do some-thing about the pipes." -
@OlufemiOTaiwo
The childish thing where people pick fights, feign victimhood, and then promote it as some kind of radical discourse is truly annoying. It drives this app tho.
"We are no more for integrated capitalism than segregated capitalism. Neither are we in favor of a separate state, based on the same class lines as in this society. We are against a separate state which a black capitalist class exploits black proletariat." John Watson
Truly saddened to hear about the passing of the co-founder of
@blkagendareport
, Glen Ford. Growing up in a conservative state with little to no Black political education around me beyond moderate dem party bs, BAR was the resource that saved me from becoming a negroliberal.
"Any strategy for black liberation must be based not only on the needs and demands of black people, but, if it is to succeed, it must also be designed to counter the anticipated response of the opposition." - Robert Allen