fellow community member by mistake than even put a dent in the power structure.
How do you know the “country bumpkin” you’re carjacking isn’t your brother within the “solidarity” you chant in your song?
Maybe the message in your song helps to support the police-prison-industrial complex, just as the glamorized intracommunal violence in a lot of rap music in the 90’s helped support mass incarceration?
Has it occurred to you that a segment of the capitalist class likes it when random, chaotic lawlessness is taken for something that is revolutionary?
All due respect but I myself now suspect that an important step for building a grassroots leftist/progressive movement is to stop condoning rioting and looting; and thereby develop a more strategic type of defiance of authority, so as to focus public attention on the issues of political and economic justice and the habitability of earth.
Yeah., I see your point about the “economic ascension” of black folk.
Looking at historical figures can bring the details of issues into higher resolution.
I see that with how King’s work in the US north regarding economic racism got him killed.
The US federal government supported desegration in the South as part of its Cold War strategy, but did not, and has not supported dismantling economic white supremacy. Since the end of the Black Civil Rights era, like before it, federal and state governments have promoted white supremacy economically
As for conspiracies, there’s no doubt our gov killed MLK, as indicated in the civil case in 1999.
The stuff about his private life may be a smear. We shouldn’t trust what people working for the FBI said about him.
In some areas, very little has changed in terms of racism in the past 52 years or so since MLK or Fred Hampton was around.
It’s shocking and sobering, and I live in a white body
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