As 2024 approaches, some of the same old discussions as it pertains to electoral politics particularly in Black spaces are popping up again. Here in a classic segment,
@probert06
explains how the Black Political Class operates in electoral politics.
It's never lost on me that both MLK and Malcolm X spend much of their lives fighting racism, racism, racism. But they are both assasinated when they start challenging capitalism.
When you adhere to a left political tendency that would refer to Amilcar Cabral, Thomas Sankara, Samora Machel, Walter Rodney, and Fidel Castro as "tankies," or problematic Marxist-Leninsts. There's a reason I don't take your opinions on foreign policy seriously.
On this day, November 18, 1803 Jean Jacques Dessalines commanded the Revolutionary Army to victory in the last battle of the Haitian Revolution, the Battle of Vertières. Napoleon's Army under Rochambeau was defeated causing the French to evacuate.
"All my life, I believed that the fundamental struggle was Black versus white. Now I realize that it is the haves against the have-nots.” Malcolm X, January, 1965
Do people not understand that Russia and Ukraine have been at war since 2014 when the United States supported a Coup against the Democratically elected Ukrainian president who supported Russia and sponsored a fascist filled regime taking power?
Muslims make up 10% of the population of Paris but 70% of Parisian Prison Inmates. Do they suffer from "defective culture," like Blacks in America are accused of? Or does even French capitalism require its own version of N-words reduced to labor redundancy?
The Black Political Class was celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop at Vice President Kamala Harris' domicile. Interesting to see how the urban art form is so easily being appropriated by the political enemies of the Black masses by feigning racial kinship for the benefit of the DNC.
The Black University educated and pedigreed Negro is placed as social control of the Black masses throughout the globe. Unless he becomes a traitor to his class and joins the masses, there will be no Black liberation without class warfare against him.
Let's be transparent. DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusion) and affirmative action have always been palliatives (soft remedies) handed out by the political establishment to recruit a small segment of Blacks and colored people to maintain social control of the majority (1)
Remember the good old days when Susan Rice threatened to cut off aid to Haiti right after the Haiti earthquake if Haitians resisted the U.S. tampering in Haiti's presidential election when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State? But her emails indeed.
Yesterday I was on The Majority Report
@majorityfm
talking about Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Black politics in general. I come on at the 19:15 minute mark. Check it out and let me know what you think:
The racial wealth gap discourse exists to obfuscate the basic reality that American capitalism demands racial inequality because Black labor is disproportionatly relegated to the reserve army of labor with all the negative social ills that come from that reality.
Definition of Woke: liberal consciousness raising efforts around identity and social justice issues divorced from analysis of political economy, class, and capitalism.
@briebriejoy
@bungarsargon
Haitians always pride themselves on defeating the French when in fact I would argue a feat more worthy of admiration is the defeat of the British. Toussaint L'Ouvterture took five years to defeat the British between 1793-1798.
The U.S. has been arming and training NAZI like fascists to fight Russia after the U.S. sponsored a Coup in Ukraine in 2014 to topple a Democratically Elected pro Russia leader. This happened under Obama.
This article in
@thenation
details the facts.
Bottom 40 percent of Whites have 0.8 percent of white wealth to negative 0.3 percent of White wealth. The bottom 40 percent of Blacks have 0.3% of Black wealth to negative 3.3 percent of Black wealth. So what exactly are we arguing over. A trailer home over or a housing project?
Within the last six months we have evidence of U.S. involvement in a Haitian Presidential assassination yet the New York Times wants Haitians to be mad at France in 1825.
A White conservative asked me why I oppose capitalism. I said, "It's simple. Capitalism has an N-word requirement. He said, "What do you mean?" I said, "Capitalism requires N-words so that poor White people believe they can never be one." He literally said, "I understand."
What is the consequence of having so much of the theorization regarding Black American life rooted in the thoughts of the college educated, when the majority of Black people, like most people in America, are working class and working poor?
Revolutionary left in America suffers from not realizing they're talking to the equivalent of 5 people in a football stadium. Democratic Socilaists are talking to about 200 people in the Football stadium. Both factions are fighting each other while the stadium has 107,000 people.
If you have any question about whether the purpose of capitalists is to punish labor for daring to realize its value and making demands in kind. Watch this video:
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude."
Sidney Poitier was one of the most significant actors in the last century. I generally avoid attachment to celebrity, but Poitier always held a special place for me.
All of this post modern trash coming out of Blackademia is about holding out for more fatback and biscuits patronage premised on White liberal guilt. There is nothing "radical" about this nonsense.
Neither you
@GlennLoury
or
@MichaelEDyson
discuss race in terms of political economy to deal with the fact that American capitalism disproportionately relegates Blacks to reserve Army of labor to maintain its function even though a larger number of Whites are poor.
A couple of elections ago there was all this
#BlackGirlMagic
applause around the number of Black women who became Judges in Texas. This thread illustrates that the three most carceral (pro detention) judges in Harris County, TX happen to be Black women.
Something alarming is happening. I've been tracking this around the country, and I have never seen a judge in modern U.S. history responsible for more people in jail. Judge Ramona Franklin just hit 500 people in jail at the same time solely because they can't pay cash.
If China or Russia were sponsoring a separatist movement in Peurto Rico, how would the United States react. If China or Russia pushed Mexico into a military and economic alliance. How would the United States react?
Just finished an academic article on how the United States facilitated the rise of the current Syrian-Lebonese Haitian Oligarchy through protective policies going back to the early 1900s. These people have been willing tools of the U.S. State Department for over a century.
of the discontented masses by creating a charade of representation while at the same time capitalism increased the overall inequality in the country. So you have a more multicultural professional and mangerial class while larger segments of the overall society are forced downward
One of the most important tasks we attempt to achieve on
@TIRShowOakland
is clarifying to our viewers that the current predicament America finds itself in is largely a consequence of economic policies brought forth during the 50 plus year counter-revolution against the 60s.
There is not a place on the earth where you and your husband avoided causing misery and suffering to Black People. Your family pillaged the only Black nation born of a successful slave revolt in the world out of sheer greed and malice.
#Haiti
MLK Jr. said: “I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress." This is a subtweet.
Is politics for people who consider themselves left or progressive reduced to simply supporting centrist liberals in some popular front formation out of fear of the next right wing iteration of conservatives? Is that really even politics?
Between the rise of Trump and the Biden posturing of progressivism, the failure of the Obama presidency is becoming more transparent. The desperation to rationalize the failures of that administration via biographies is self evident.
There are many Black people who truly dislike the extent to which I focus on the class nature of the Black petite bourgeois or Black Professional Managerial Class. They are almost exclusively Black petite bourgeois or Black Professional Mangerial Class people themselves.
Nice
@briebriejoy
using that law school education to discuss the return of jurisprudential approval of monopolies within the last 20 years. Important stuff.
‼️Oscar Breyer Meat Market‼️
"That decision said that not only is monopoly not against the law, but monopoly is good--it's an important part of the free market system."
@matthewstoller
on anti-anti-trust Justice Breyer & the link btw monopolies &💰⬆️🥩
The French are some of the most racist Westerners in the world. It is always stunning to me how people take the liberal blather of the French Revolution as any reason to think France is not even more mercenary an Empire than Britain.
One of the reasons there has been this drive to deem every social phenomenon involving a group of people as a "movement" over the last decade stems from the way the New Left period of the 1960s is fetishized. Folks wish to have partaken in the 1960s like it was a softball game.
Current political moment convinces me that the global dialectic between the reactionary right and the neoliberal international order has completely pushed leftists out from any relevance to current affairs. The modern rise of leftism has been reduced to a "scene" not a politics.
"The Black Panther Party is a Marxist-Leninist party because we follow the dialectical method and we also integrate theory with practice."---Huey P. Newton, 1970
There is nothing in this infrastructure bill regardless of form that is going improve Biden's standing with the American people unless it immediately puts cash in their hands. The bill should have included another $2,000 stimulus check especially before the holidays.
How much do you want to bet that the structural adjustment programs and selling off of Haitian State assets required by the Bill Clinton administration in the 90s have more to do with why Haiti is CURRENTLY poor than an indemnity to France?
There is not a single public appearance I made discussing the Jovenel Moise Haitian presidential assassination where I neglected to mention that a Haitian President could not be killed without the Green light from the U.S. Government.
I still say the manufacture of the Obama presidency was one of cruelest political acts the American ruling class has pulled on Black America since Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1801 L'Ouverture kicks Spain out of the territory now known as Dominican Republic ending slavery on that land and killing Spanish Slave plantation owners fighting on behalf of Spain while taking all Hispaniola under the French Flag which L'Ouverture was under.
I love watching Black folk share pictures of their vacations on Martha's Vineyard while they discuss panel discussions on the racial wealth gap they attended. The irony is too much to resist laughter.
When you learn that White Millionaire Philanthropies financed Blacks into Higher Education in the Early 20th Century to neutralize Black radical militancy like Socialism and Pan-Africanism, it all makes sense.
Social Democracy is at best a reformist stop gap to the contemporary neoliberal hellscape of American Capitalism. Of course there should be a push for more radical economic transformation. This does not require the revolutionary left to reject reform that helps the toiling masses
"The tragedy of the Black Bourgeoisie in America is not that it simply "sells out," since all bourgeois classes are prone to compromise their sovereignty in crisis.
It is that no class the world over sells out so cheaply as the American Black Bourgeoisie.."
---Harold Cruse
The Black Political Class is very pleased with itself regarding certain recent political events. From Warnock to Hakeem Jeffries, they feel their influence over the Democratic party growing. Of course with little benefit to their constituents.
This book "What the Negro Wants," was written in 1944 by a range of Black thinkers and activists. When you read the book you realize how much their solutions are rooted in political economy and not "race reductionism." Shows how much Black thought has regressed in those 75 years
The Black Political Class, Black liberal academia, and the Black chattering class cannot survive in a world where they are denied the ability to leverage the misery of the Black masses for the fatback and biscuits patronage of the ruling class.
The Black political class has aligned with capital and the state against the Black masses for ages. Their material interests supercede romantic notions of racial loyalty:
The Atlanta mayor came w/ the respectability politics yesterday. Bringing out the mostly male Black elite to support Cop City. They were introduced as business owners, politicians, & athletes. They spoke on money, crime & more police. We have a real class divide in our community
Liberals will co-sign imperialism, corporate greed, and exploitation as long as a gay, woman, or Black person is at the table helping with the decision.
I would love to debate
@jordanbpeterson
just based on me repeating that all of Western Society exists today because of some Voodoo believing Africans in a piss poor country called Haiti.
The cynical way liberals and the left flank of capital have encouraged Black political thought to double down on race reductionism divorced from materialist policy in the post Obama era as a bulwark against Trumpism has ended up fueling the rise of the reactionary right.
Negroes don't like Adolph Reed because he spent his life explaining how so much of the trash Negores believe and hold sacred is helping them get DESTROYED by the ruling class. They just resent that he'll say it in front of Whites or Blacks.
@briebriejoy
@BL4CK_TR4SH
@DamonYoungVSB
Having extended family that is poor while you're summering on Martha's vineyard isn't the same as experiencing poverty. The assumption that the Black middle class is an authentic arbiter of the Black poor neglects their role as class enemies. Check this:
From the rise of Barack Obama to today's ridiculous wokeness debates about worthless CRT, the last 15 years of American politics has been largely about manipulating Black political emotionality.