Every successful movement requires alliances, so don't be ashamed if you're just an ALLY and not actually an ACCOMPLICE.

Be ashamed if you lied about it all summer and chanted "BLM" out of convenience instead of conviction.

And then use that shame as a catalyst to do better.

Now here's the kicker...

For the principled anti-fascist, the chud war IS THE WAR.

I fully understand that chuds=cops=feds BUT I also know that those are just ALLIANCES.

Those relationships are fragile. They're pushing back on progressives just as we push back on them.

So if Black people AROUND WHOM THIS MOVEMENT ROTATES have a goal of abolishing police and the anti-fascists have a goal of abolishing police, everything should be fine, right?

Wrong. Cuz so many white male allies struggle to follow.

White allies worry about Black men with guns being "heteronormatives subconsciously mimicking the police state" meanwhile all those chants promising to protect Black women went unfulfilled.

Performative AND Divisive. That's a twofer.

One more time:

Black Power means that Black people have the right to self-determination. We have the right to decide our future. Our future need not fit nearly in the respectability culture that white people have stolen our labor for centuries to create.

So an ALLY may not agree with how Black people choose to navigate our reality, but an ACCOMPLICE has the goal of clearing a path toward Black self-determination and thus LISTENS.

So last night. There were two marches apparently. One Black-organized, one was only Black-led.

At one point, they converged. There was some talk of merging and focusing on Black needs.

This was refused.

FULL STOP.

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