Malcolm X’s usage of hate and weaponized religion under Elijah Muhammad (ie his statement that the 122 deaths of Air France flight 007 were a “gift from God”) must be part of the historical analysis, along with how and why Malcolm X came to reject race reductionist hate.
I don’t judge because in the face of maddening white supremacy, the power of anti-white hate is enticing, because it frazzles many white people and it can be a way for a Black person to root out internalized racism, including its Judeo-Christian elements.o
However, such hatred ultimately undermines freedom struggles, as has been seen in the US as a hyper-racialized framing in the late 1960s thru the 1990s fed racial antagonisms, mass incarceration, militarized policing and detracted from multiracial efforts at social democracy in the US.
To what extent does identity-based ‘cultural radicalism’ on the ‘left’ threaten to detract from multi-racial social democracy, in that some folk reject all institutions as a matter of “burning down the house” and think that the racist, colonialist legacy of the US and the West indicate that this society itself and Western Culture must be ‘allowed to collapse’?
Could that view, if it actually exists among adherents of any significant number, be described as a type of nihilism?
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