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Some thoughts:
The Uhuru Three, African Stream, and the Black Scare/Red Scare
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Liberalism in a nutshell.
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Dems when asked to do the simple basic things they campaigned on.
A Nigerian official fake fainted after he was grilled about missing funds.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but... you're a human not a brand. Contrary to the neoliberalization of life, it is perfectly acceptable NOT to commodify or monetize your interests, hobbies, talents, personality, and insights (economic necessity notwithstanding).
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The fact that these economists are trying to blame inflation on the tiny survival checks and meager wage hikes working and poor people have received in the past 2 years and not the massive bailouts and concomitant wealth redistribution upwardly is peak class warfare.
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We talk about "privilege" more than we talk about oppression and exploitation. That's a problem.
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But... your husband... and Ferguson... and Baltimore... You looked well rested than a MF then...
Michelle Obama says she's "exhausted and frustrated" amid Kenosha unrest
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“Resilience” is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.
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Stop saying “like some Third World country” when pointing out things like bad drinking water and electric grid failures in the US. No, those are the conditions of a crumbling imperial country with a ruling class that hoardes wealth and despises poor and working ppl.
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Moral of the story: distinguish between those who are against oppression and those who are against their personal experience of oppression. We conflate and confuse these people far too often.
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The expropriative, plunderous logic of white identity politics is that if you don’t know about it, it doesn’t exist; if you can take it, it’s yours; if you took it, you need not give it back; and the ability to take, violently or otherwise, should be defended, if not celebrated.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but 🗣YOU’RE BROKE! This is a structural reality, NOT a personal moral failure, but the solution is not some pipe dream of becoming rich but rather organizing, collective care and consciousness, and sober analysis of our economic situation.
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I said in an interview a couple year ago that "checking your privilege" as a solution to racial and social oppression is like not littering as a solution to climate change.
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This is literally a celebration of Black death in the service of liberal fantasy. George Floyd did not sacrifice his life--he was murdered. She might as well have thanked the cop for murdering him since that's why people took to the streets.
Antiblack, carceral relief.
@AlexNBCNews
@SpeakerPelosi
Speaker Pelosi: "Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice ... Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous with justice."
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Whiteness is an identity politics too—the most powerful, in fact.
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To whoever needs to hear this: you get to grow, change your mind, shift course, backpedal, and make mistakes as you learn, irrespective of who’s watching. No need to be pristine—just better than before.
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Only because war crimes aren't a scandal.
Happy 60th birthday to a former President, who’s biggest scandal was wearing a tan suit.
#HappyBirthdayObama
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That so many “cop cities” are popping up (e.g., Baltimore, Nashville, SF, ATL) as cities are being inundated with houselessness, unaffordability, and human misery means that surveillance, punishment, and incarceration are elected influencers’ chosen solutions to poverty.
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“Show me in the white community where a comedian is a white leader. Show me in the white community where a singer is a white leader or a dancer or a trumpet player is a white leader.” -Malcolm X, 1963
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Black liberation and corporate sponsorship are fundamentally incompatible, period.
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LOL folks flipped from being epidemiologists to geopolitical analysts just like that!
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It’s annoying to see Black revolutionaries like Malcolm X, Walter Rodney, June Jordan, and Fanon reduced to cherry-picked quotes. These freedom fighters really educated themselves about different struggles of the oppressed masses. We owe them the same seriousness and study.
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What we ought to take away from this Ivy League President spectacle is that you might as well be radical in these Red Scare times because even when you spout lily-livered liberal drivel they will still come for you if you aren’t imperialistic enough. Now is the time for courage.
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Yes I’m a single issue voter and my issue is US imperialism.
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Pro-Palestine activists shut down second Israeli arms factory in a week
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If you invoke, for example, Ella Baker, Fanny Lou Hamer, MLK, Malcolm X, Claudia Jones, Marcus Garvey, Barbara Smith, Assata Shakur, Steve Biko, CLR, Huey Newton, Ida B. Wells, Charlene Mitchell, or some combination there of, be clear that THEY ALL BELONGED TO ORGANIZATIONS.
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Stick close to Black radical analysis. Don't let liberals trick you into thinking this is justice and that the shit can be reformed. You'll me inundated with these messages by the MSM.
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Lori Lightfoot is what identity reductionism and intersectional imperialism get us.
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Striking teachers, Waffle House workers, UPS workers, etc. are just as important as strikers in Hollywood. Don’t let celebrity culture obfuscate that reality.
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1/ There's something unsettling about the insistence that Trump is the worst president in history as if enslavement, indigenous genocide and dispossession, Jim Crow, anticommunism, worker subjection, and carcerality haven't been central to most presidencies. +
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I will not thank celebrities. I will not thank politicians. I will not thank corporations. Even when they take a “correct stance.” My gratitude and love goes to the people and organizations doing the tireless, onerous, thankless work of organizing and consciousness raising. +
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Neoliberal superexploitation... but make it intersectional and multicultural.
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Happy Revolutionary Birthday to Evo Morales! An upright leader in a time of fools and monsters.
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The U.S. disciplined critical thinking out of all levels of education and we're seeing the stark effects of that in real time.
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Most academics are not activists. And that's okay. What's not okay is for us to construe non-activism as activism or to try to make the criteria so capacious that it loses all relevance and erases those actively doing that work.
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Shame on every teacher who used reading as a way to punish, embarass, or discourage students and turned them off from reading as adults.
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Making property damage equal to loss of or injury to human life only make sense in a capitalist society.
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Joe in Ukraine while folks in an Ohio town can’t breathe the air or drink the water safely but have been denied federal emergency relief. This pretty much sums up how this government, despite party, values war over workers.
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"To a slave, his master may be better or worse. But there cannot be a good master. A good man cannot be a master, and a master cannot be a good man." -B.R. Ambedkar
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I'll know I've officially overcome my internalized capitalist work ethic when I no longer find the question "what if I did nothing today?" utterly anxiety-inducing.
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She should be particularly ashamed of herself as a Haitian, knowing the tortuous conditions they’ve faced as victims of US/UN/Core Group neocolonial occupation and the forced migrations emanating therefrom. It’s not the communists destabilizing vast areas of the globe.
Communism is at the root of migration, according to the White House.
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All eyes on Jackson, MS. It wasn’t too long ago when they had a water crisis due to frozen pipes. The disinvestment in and abject neglect of poor Black cities and neighborhoods is not a Democrat or Republican problem—it’s a racial capitalism problem exacerbated by climate crisis.
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If patronizing was a person it would be an Obama.
Michelle Obama: "We cannot afford to withhold our votes or waste them on a protest candidate."
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This country would have us believe that the ability to consume is our greatest liberty, and organized worker power is an existential threat to it.
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Funny how when something happens to the Black petit bourgeoisie or entertainment class it’s a blanket affront on all Black ppl but the daily oppression and exploitation of working and poor Black folks somehow evades outrage or critique. Fame shouldn’t be the catalyst for concern.
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STOP DEFENDING CELEBRITIES. You don't know them and they don't care about you. Care about and defend people who are *actually* oppressed and not mildly inconvenienced by some fleeting affront.
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I’m reminded of how, during WWI, white journalists and politicians blamed Black ppl for stirring up white terrorism by protesting Jim Crow and white supremacist violence. Their protest was considered to be more of a threat to the war effort than white barbarism. The point is: +
pentagon spokeswoman sabrina singh: “hamas is the one putting palestinians, those in gaza, at great risk. they are putting command and control units inside hospitals.”
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That being “broke” is constantly hurled as an insult—and seen as a source of personal shame instead of structural failure—when fewer and fewer people can afford basic necessities really exposes the cruelty and peniaphobia of an exploitative, individualistic society.
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The extent of “gun control” in this antiblack settler colony is the disarming of the Blacks and Natives.
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We have enough of everything we need for all people to live a good life. The social and economic problems we face emanate from maldistribution, overdevelopment, and endless accumulation; the politics that sustain these; and their deadly and dehumanizing consequences. Period.
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Black left independent media will have the best analysis of this because in many ways they already anticipated and analyzed this scenario. Believe Black radicals.
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King on Du Bois: “It is time to cease muting the fact that Du Bois was a genius and chose to be a communist. Our irrational obsessive anticommunism has led us into too many quagmires to be retained as if it were a mode of scientific thinking.”
King was against anticommunism.
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Bailouts aren’t socialism for the rich. I hate the use of that distortion to make an otherwise viable point of how *capitalism* serves the interests of the ruling class. Bankers calling for bailouts is a demand for a return on their investment, i.e, their campaign contribution.
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Another massacre in Palestine—another spectacle in the US. Funny how that works…
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Black liberation and socialism or white supremacy and barbarism.
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Anyway, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa turns 50 this year so it’s a turn up all 2022!
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Funny how the "representation matters" folks are never talkin about ideology. They want the same ideas, policies, and solutions in different shades and identities.
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A quote that resonates: "'Fascism' is what white people call capitalism when they start getting treated like the colonized."
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Y’all better stfu about voting for this man. He deserves nothing but contempt and scorn
Joe Biden moves to lift nearly every restriction on Israel’s access to U.S. weapons stockpile by
@kenklippenstein
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Normalize asking “what is unclear?” when ppl ask for an explanation, especially when it comes to counterhegemonic perspectives. Because more often than not, they’re really asking you to defend yourself rather than to clarify your point.
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Not having money, or being “broke,” is not an insult—it’s the material reality of exploitation and oppression (or superexploitation). That “broke” is used as an insult conveys how much we hate poor people, especially if they’re Black.
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"Marxist," "Far Left," "antifa" and the like are the conduits through which antiblackness, xenophobia, jingoism, and the denigration of the working class and poor are being rationalized. Pay attention.
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Folks be so happy when these imperial losers do the bare minimum months after ordinary people with way less power and more at stake have been saying this and doing more from day 1. I really hate celebrity culture, including veneration of these elected influencers.
There is no world in which the forced famine of 1.1 million people cannot be considered genocide. And that is exactly what we are watching unfold in Gaza now.
We must enforce U.S. laws and halt weapons transfers to the Israeli government to stop an atrocity in the making.
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I am excited to share that, starting Fall 2022, I will be an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University! I am even more thrilled to be coming in with two brilliant scholar-friends! Detroit what’s good!
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I don't know who needs to hear this but...
🗣️ YOU'RE A WORKER
Stop defending capitalists, capitalism, and capitalist ethics. You sound ridiculous.
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Abolish the court.
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Join a revolutionary organization and you’ll see how irrelevant this academic bickering disguised as “discourse”truly is.
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I asked someone to be my friend today and they said yes so I’m happy. I don’t care if that’s childish—it’s hard to make friends as an adult! 🤸🏿♀️
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The distinction between “economic migrants” and “refugees” only makes sense in a capitalist world-economy in which superexploitation is the norm and poverty is understood as a moral, cultural, or civilization failure.
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Poor and "broke" people deserve love, friends, companionship, support, and everything else anyone else deserves. This financial eugenics bullsh*t is so SO raggedy.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but you don't need to monetize all your hobbies , your struggles, and that which you value most. Grind culture isn't worth it.
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An important piece of advice I hold close is “inform don’t overwhelm.” I have to continually remind myself that too many minute/esoteric details or intricate connections, while important to me, can actually be confusing or seem disjointed to others. Inform don’t overwhelm.
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"Racial capitalism" is fast becoming the new "African diaspora" or "globalization" or "intersectionality." We academics sure are a bunch who know how to wear some shit out, commodify it, abstract it from its initial intellectual intervention, and make it vacuous.
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If you prefer your oppression polite and eloquent, just say that.
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1/ Robin DiAngelo essentially admits to the NYT that in order to keep her grift alive, she peddles abstract dribble even tho she knows better: "Capitalism is so bound up with racism. I avoid critiquing capitalism — I don’t need to give people reasons to dismiss me.” +
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I wish academics had more humility to know when a topic isn't within their scope of knowledge, even if it's tangentially related, and the collaborative spirit to invite in those who do have expertise in that area. Sometimes the work is to hold space and say nothing.
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They have class solidarity. You can too.
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