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If the most visible Black people in media can't be trusted to know their own history, how do you think they gained their position to begin with?
If representation matters, whose decision is it to continuously trot these frauds out to represent us *all the time?* https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1346905009603051522
If representation matters, whose decision is it to continuously trot these frauds out to represent us *all the time?* https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1346905009603051522
Folks already know what I think of Jemele Hill, but that's not important. I want to step back for a second.
Tweets and comments like this should be a testament to the centrality of historical materialism to any serious political movement.
Tweets and comments like this should be a testament to the centrality of historical materialism to any serious political movement.
If your political commentary is rooted in a complete misapprehension of history and analysis of your own people's material condition, why should you be trusted on anything?
And yet, Jemele and people like her will never miss a paycheque because they serve their intended purpose
And yet, Jemele and people like her will never miss a paycheque because they serve their intended purpose
This is how controlled opposition works. To blunt revolutionary energy by co-opting and redirecting it to electoralism, and begging for assimilation into the existing power structure.
The feds don't need opps when Black folks do the work in media for a paycheque and benefits.
The feds don't need opps when Black folks do the work in media for a paycheque and benefits.
This is why I continuously bang on about liberalism; its purpose is to dangle the myth of incremental liberation, while selling a version of our own history that comports with and never threatens the status quo.
It's the politics of sellouts and traitors.
It's the politics of sellouts and traitors.
Anyway, food for thought
