Black leftists are not respected by any community any more. Our icons, Malcolm, DeBois, Nkrumah, Ture, Shakur, Hampton, Hamer, King are put on pedestals and commercialized as Mavericks of their time but irrelevant for today. Anything Black leftists do now will..
.. be attributed to white radicals and will be met with severe skepticism. Our talented tenth are fine with being the only Blacks in the room and our African cousins care a lot more about their home countries (don’t blame them). This decade will make or break us. I am also...
.. convinced that at this point there is no crisis that will convince the media, populace and international community that this needs change, there is no longer a reliance of statistical analysis on race, social media has now diverged into echo chambers where we just double down.
I deeply believed for a long time that a war or a deadly virus would be what flicks the switch and we really start to “organize”.

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